EDWIN WARFIELD, ESQ., GOVERNOR.

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SECTION 1. Be it enacted by the General Assembly of Mary-
land, That the Mayor and Council of Mount Airy shall have
power by ordinance to regulate and provide for the issuing
of licenses or permits for all hauling, peddling and vending
of marketable commodities, wares and merchandise of every
description upon the streets or highways of the town, and to
issue licenses or permits to all itinerant peddlers who may
go from house to house to vend or sell any wares or mer-
chandise; to regulate and provide for the issuing of licenses
to all traveling persons who dispense medicines or medical
advice and secret or patented inventions or remedies, and
shall have the power to fix the price or fees for such licenses,
respectively, and to provide for the collection of the same.

SEC. 2. And be it enacted, That said Mayor and Council of

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Regulate the
Issuing of
licensee, etc.

Mount Airy shall also have power by ordinance to establish
night watches and patrols and erect and maintain lamps to
light the streets, roads and alleys of said town; to restrain
and prohibit gaming; to prevent drunkenness, brawling and
fighting, and to Suppress and remove all nuisances affecting
or liable to affect the peace, quiet or health of the town.

SEC. 3. And be it enacted, That said Mayor and Council

Authority to
establish
night
watches, etc.

shall also have power by ordinance to make reasonable regu-
lations in regard to buildings to be erected in said town and
grant building permits for the same; to establish five dis-
tricts in said town and regulate the kind of materials used
in the erection of buildings within such districts, with special
reference to the prevention- and suppression of fires; to
regulate the burning of brush, boxes, shavings and other
refuse matter in the streets, alleys, yards and gardens of
said, town, for the purpose of preventing fires; to establish
and regulate a station house or lockup for the temporary
confinement of the violators of the laws and ordinances of the
town, and for the suppression of vagrancy.

SEC. 6. And be it enacted. That for the purpose of carry-

General
powers
granted.

ing out the powers granted by this Act, and to preserve the
cleanliness, health, peace and good order of said town and
the community, the said Mayor and Council may impose
such fines, not exceeding twenty dollars in any one case, for
each violation of any ordinance or any section of any ordi-
nance passed under the provisions of this Act or by author-
ity thereof, and in default of payment of any fine imposed

Fines
Imposed for
violation of
ordinance.