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CHAP. 560
General
powers
granted.
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the punishment of all persons who shall keep or suffer to be
kept in, upon or on their property any such house or houses.
(16) The Council shall have power to regulate the speed of
all conveyances upon the streets or any public highway or
road within the town, such as carriages, bicycles, autocycles,
motorcycles, automobiles, locomobiles and street cars. (17)
The Council shall have the power to annually levy a water
tax for the use of water provided by the town. (18) The
Council shall have the power to cause and compel all rail-
road corporations to light all street crossings over or by
which their cars pass. (19) The Council shall have the
power to prohibit and provide for the punishment of all wife
beaters, habitual drunkards, loafers, vagrants, tramps, beg-
gars, disorderly characters, disturbers of religious meetings,
or public meetings, or disturbers of the peace and quiet of
the town. (20) The Council shall have the power to,
and it shall be lawful for them to provide in the case
of conviction of any person for vagrancy, habitual drunken-
ness, wife beating or the keeping of inmates of a dis-
orderly house, to sentence such person to hard work on
the streets of said town for a period not exceeding twenty
days, or to the confinement in the Maryland House of
Correction for a period not to exceed six months or less
than two months. (21) The Council shall have the power
to levy a tax and impose a license upon all gas companies,
electric light companies, water companies, telephone com-
panies, brokers, real estate and insurance agencies, pool
rooms, billiard rooms, bowling alleys, located in or doing
business in said town, merry-go-rounds and all mechanical
inventions of pleasure operated in said town. (22) The
Council shall have the power to provide for the codification
of all ordinances which may hereafter be passed. (23) The
Council shall have the power to remove or caused to be
removed, or to render secure any house or houses, buildings
or other objects that may be dangerous to property, health
or to the life or to the limbs of persons entering said house
or building, or passing along or over any of the highways
of said town or residing in the neighborhood thereof. (24)
The Council shall have the power to suppress vagrancy and
gambling within the limits of said town. (25) The Council
have the power to provide for rigid enforcement of the
Sabbath law by preventing all bodily labor on the Sabbath
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