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LAWS OF MARYLAND.

and mode of dealing in relation thereto; to grant

Protect public

licenses on marketable commodities; to control and

grounds.

protect the public grounds and property of the town ;

to establish and regulate a station house or lock-up

for temporary confinement of violators of the laws

and ordinances of the town; to suppress vagrancy ;

to prohibit or restrain the keeping of bawdy houses,

or houses of ill fame, within the limits of the town,

and to provide for the punishment of all persons who

shall keep, authorize or suffer to be kept any such

bawdy house or house of ill fame; to regulate and to

provide for the issuing of licenses or permits for all

hawking, peddling and vending of wares and mer-

chandise of every description upon the streets or

highways of the town, and to issue licenses or per-

mits 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 medicines or medical

advice. They shall also have power to demand a

Theatrical

license from all players or showmen exhibiting within

licenses.

said town, and to provide for licensing theatres, and

to regulate or restrain theatrical or other public

amusements within said town; to regulate and license

or tax saloons and restaurants, hackney carriages,

omnibuses or other vehicles used in said town for the

carriage of passengers and travelers; to regulate and

license auctioneers who cry any sale or sales on the

public streets, provided that no greater sum than one

hundred dollars be charged for any one license; and

to regulate and control all offensive trades, manufac-

tures and traffic in offensive fertilizers or other com-

modities within the town limits. They shall also

Provide for cod-
ification of or-

have power to provide for the codification of all ordi-

dinances.

nances 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 com-

munity, and for the protection of the lives and prop-

erty of the citizens, and to suppress, abate or discontinue,

or to 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 obser-

vance of said ordinances, in addition to the action of

debt, or such other civil remedies as may exist in such