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LAWS OF MARYLAND.

pass ordinances regulating the market; the inspec-

tion measurement and weight of all provisions,

grain and wood sold in and to be consumed in said

Powers of
commissioners

town; to suppress all disorderly meetings; to prohi-

bit the use of profane language, drunkenness, fight-

ing and disorderly conduct in said town; to prevent

firing cannon, guns, squibs or any kind of fire-arms

or fire-works in said town; to prevent the running

at large in said town of horses, cattle, swine, geese,

clucks, goats and dogs; to prevent any immoderate

driving through the streets of said town with carri

What to pre-
vent.

age, stage, cart, wagon or other vehicle, or on horse-

back, so as to endanger the lives, limbs or property

of the citizens, or disturb the quiet enjoyment of the

streets and thoroughfares; to prevent the parading

and indecent exhibition of any " Stud " horse in said

town; to preserve order and secure property and

persons from violence, danger or destruction, and

may impose fines, penalties and forfeitures for the

violation of any of said ordinances, but no fine or pen-

alty shall exceed the sum of ten dollars, and all fines

Fines and

and penalties imposed by said ordinances shall be

penalties - how
collected.

collected by suit before a justice of the peace in the

name of the said corporation as other small debts

are collected; and in case of default of payment of

said fines and penalties, and costs attending the col-

lection of the same, the offender may be imprisoned

in the county jail for a term not exceeding twenty

days.

SEC. 9. And be it enacted, That they may provide

by ordinance for the immediate arrest without war-

rant of any person violating any town ordinance by
riotous or disorderly conduct, or driving or riding

Provide by

through the streets, when, in the judgment of the

ordinance.

president, or any of said commissioners, or of the

bailiff of said town, the delay necessary to the

issuing of a warrant would be dangerous to the

peace and quiet of the town, or the lives, limbs or

property of the citizens; and when it shall appear

that the offender is intoxicated so as to render it

unsafe to permit him to drive through the streets,

shall provide for the removal of the horse and

vehicle without the limits of the town, or for the

Costs of pro-
ceedings.

deposit thereof in some place of safety until the

offender shall be sober, and to subject the property

so taken and deposited to payment of the costs of