146 LAWS OF MARYLAND. [CH. 83

to regulate, license and tax restaurants, breweries and all
saloons and other places where malt, spirituous, vinous and
fermented liquors are sold; to regulate, license and tax all
hackney carriages, omnibuses or, other vehicles used in said
town for the carriage of passengers; all vehicles used for
the carriage or transportation of freight or merchandise
and all carts or other vehicles which ply for hire; to levy
a tax and impose a license upon dogs, and to impose a
license upon all gas companies, water companies and tele-
phone companies, brokers, real estate and insurance agen-
cies, located in or doing business in said town; and to
regulate and license auctioneers who cry any public
sales within the corporate limits of the town; provided,
that no greater sum than one hundred dollars shall be
charged for any one license, except a license fee not ex-
ceeding five hundred dollars may be charged for hawk-
ing and peddling or for entering into or beginning the
transient business of selling goods, wares or merchandise;
and to regulate and control all offensive trades,
manufactures and traffic in offensive fertilizers or
other commodities within the town limits; they shall also
have power to provide for the codification of all ordinances
which may have been or may hereafter be passed; and for
the purpose of carrying out the foregoing powers, and for
the preservation of the cleanliness, health, peace and good
order of the community, and for the protection of the lives
and property of the citizens, and to suppress, abate or dis-
continue, or cause to be suppressed, abated or discontinued,
all nuisances, within the corporate and sanitary limits of
said town, they may pass all ordinances or by-laws from
time to time necessary; and to ensure the observance of
said ordinances, in addition to the action of debt, or such
other civil remedies as may exist in such cases by law for
the recovery of the penalties thereunto affixed, they may
affix thereto such reasonable fines, not exceeding fifty dol-
lars in any case, as to them appear right; and in default
of the payment of any fine imposed, they may provide for
the imprisonment of the offender for a period not exceed-
ing twenty days, or until the fine be paid; and instead of
the aforesaid penalties, it shall be lawful in case of the
conviction of any person for vagrancy, to sentence such
person to hard work for a period not exceeding ten days.

SEC. 2. And be it further enacted, That this Act shall
take effect June 1, 1933.

Approved April 21, 1933.