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1070 LAWS OF MARYLAND.
within said town, to regulate, license and tax restaurants and
all saloons and other places where malt, spirituous, vinous,
and fermented liquor are sold, to levy a tax and impose a
license upon dogs, or, if in their judgment it be necessary to
prohibit dogs from running at large upon the streets of the
town, to prohibit the running at large upon the streets of the
town swine, cattle and fowls, to impose a license upon all gas
companies, electric light companies, water companies, street
railway companies and telephone companies located in or doing
business in said town, and to regulate and license auctioneers
who cry at public sales within the limits of the town; provided,
that no greater sum than fifty ($50.00) dollars be charged for
any one license; to regulate and control all offensive trades,
manufacturers, traffic and offensive fertilizers or other' com-
modities within the town limits; they shall also have power to
provide for the codification of all ordinances 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 community
and for the protection of the lives and property of the citizens
from fire or otherwise, and to suppress, abate or discontinue or
cause to be suppressed, abated or discontinued, all nuisances
within the corporate limits of said town, they may pass all ordi-
nances or by-laws from time to time necessary, and to insure
the observance of said ordinances or by-laws in addition to the
action of debt or such other civil remedies as may exist in such
cases by law for the recovery of penalties thereto affixed, they
may affix thereto such reasonable fines, not exceeding twenty-
five (|25.00) dollars in any case, as to them appear right, and
in default of payment of any fine imposed, they may provide
for the imprisonment of the offender for a period not exceeding
ten (10) days, or until the fine be paid, imprisonment, in the
discretion of the Burgess, be either in the Washington county
jail or in the lock-up of said Keedysville.
SEC. 2. And be it enacted, That the following new sections,
to be known as sections 295B, 295C, 295D, 295E, 295F, 295G, 295H,
295J, be and the same are hereby added to article 22 of the Code
of Public Local Laws of Maryland, title "Washington County,"
sub-title "Keedysville."
SEC. 295B. For the enforcement of such ordinances as may be
passed by the Burgess and Commissioners of Keedysville, the
Burgess shall be and is hereby constituted the police justice of
said Keedysville and for the enforcement of said ordinances
shall have all the powers, privileges and immunities conferred
by law upon a justice of the peace. He shall be furnished with
copies of the ordinances of the town, and shall keep a docket
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