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CHAP. 499.
Authority to
pass ail
ordinances
for the good
government
of the town.
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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 ; and they shall also
have power to provide for the codification of all ordinances
which 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 ;
aud for the purpose of carrying out the foregoing
powers and for the preservation of 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 dis-
continue, 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 ordi-
nances and by-laws from time to time necessary; and to insure
the observance of said ordinances in addition to the action of
the debt for the recovery of 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 imprisonment in
the corporation 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 cost imposed.
SEC. 3. And be it enacted, That this Act shall take effect
from the date of its passage.
Approved April 8, 1902.
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