LLOYD LOWNDES, ESQUIRE, GOVERNOR.

Maryland, as amended by chapter 623 of the General Assem-
bly of Maryland of 1890, be and the same are hereby repealed
and re enacted with amendments, so as to read as follows:

135. The President and Town Commissioners shall have

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power to pass all ordinances necessary for the good government
of the town; to prevent, remove and abate all nuisances or
obstructions in or upon the streets, highways, lanes or alleys,
drains or water courses, or in or upon any lot adjacent thereto,
and to provide for imposing a fine on any person causing or
creating any such nuisance or obstruction; to remove or cause
to be removed, houses or other structures that may be danger-
ous to persons passing along and over any of the high-
ways of the town; to make and establish grades upon the
streets and highways of the town; to cause the water courses,
drains or sewers of the town to be paved, kept in repair and
cleansed; to establish markets, and to regulate the hours and
limits thereof, and mode of dealing in relation thereto; to con-
trol and protect the public grounds and property of the town ;
to establish and regulate a station house or lockup for tempo-
rary confinement of violators of the laws and ordinances of
the town; to suppress vagrancy; to suppress all disorderly
meetings; to prohibit the use of profane language, drunken-
ness, fighting and disorderly conduct in the town; to prevent
the firing of cannons, guns, squibs or any kind of firearms or
fireworks in the town; to prevent the running at large in the
town of horses, cattle, swine; to prevent any immoderate
driving through the streets of the town with carriage, wagon or
other vehicles, or on horseback, so as to endanger the lives,
limbs or property of the citizens, or disturbing the quiet enjoy-
ment of the streets and thoroughfares. They shall also have
power to demand a license from all players or showmen exhib-
iting within said town: to regulate or restrain theatrical or
other amusements within said town, and for the pres-
ervation 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
discontinue or cause to be suppressed, abated or discontin-
ued, all nuisances within the corporate and standing limits of
said town; they shall pass all ordinances or by laws from time
to time necessary, and to ensure the observance of said ordi-
nances, in addition to the action of debts 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 rea-
sonable fines, not exceeding fifty dollars in any case as to them

May pass
ordinances.