594 LAWS OF MARYLAND.

streets, alleys or highways of the town, and to issue licenses
or permits to all itinerant peddlers who may go from house
to house to vend or sell any wares or merchandise; to
regulate and provide for the issuing of licenses to all
traveling persons who dispense medicine or medical advice,
they shall also have power to demand a license from all
circuses, menageries, players or showmen, exhibiting
within the limits of said town and to provide for licensing
the rates and regulate or restrain theatrical or other public
amusements within said town ; they shall also have power to
regulate and license or tax saloons, restaurants or places in
which spirituous or fermented liquor or lager beer is bartered
or sold ; to regulate and license all vehicles of every descrip-
tion used in said town for hire; to regulate and license
auctioneers who cry any sale or sales on the public streets,
provided, that no greater sum than one hundred dollars
shall be charged for any one license; and they shall also
have power by ordinance to regulate and control all
slaughter houses and offensive trades or business carried
on within the limits of said town ; they shall also have
power to provide for the codification of all ordinances which
may have been or which may hereafter be passed, and a
printed copy of all such ordinances codified as herein
empowered when issued by the authority and sanction of
said mayor and councilmen, shall be legal evidence of the
passage of said ordinances and of the contents thereof in
any court of law or equity in this State ; and for the pur-
pose of carrying out the foregoing powers and for the pre-
servation of the health, cleanliness, peace and good order
of the town and for the protection of the lives and property
of the citizens, or to suppress, abate, or discontinue, or cause
to be suppressed, abated, or discontinued all nuisances
within the corporate and sanitary limits of said town, they
may establish a board of health and may pass all ordinances
and by-laws from time to time necessary, and to insure the
observance of said ordinances, in addition to the action of
debt for the recovery of the penalties thereunto affixed, to
be brought in the name of the mayor and councilmen of
Lonaconing, they may fix such reasonable fines, not exceed-
ing fifty dollars in any case, as to them may appear right,
and in default of the payment of any fine imposed, or of the
costs therein incurred, they may provide for the imprison-
ment in the corporative prison, or in the jail of Allegany
County, of the offender, for a period not exceeding thirty
days, or until the fine and costs be paid, or in default of such
payment, they may compel the offender to work upon the
streets, alleys, lanes and highways of said town, at the
rate of one dollar and twenty-five cents per day until his
services shall amount to the fine and costs imposed.