1076 LAWS OF MARYLAND.

of; to compel by fine or otherwise the owner or proprietor of any
lot to pave or repave the sidewalks or footways; to cause the
water courses and drains to be kept in repair and clean, or to
have the same repaired, cleaned, widened or deepened whenever
necessary, in their judgment, at the cost of the property through
which they may pass, or of the owner thereof; to suppress
vagrancy; to prohibit or restrain the keeping of houses of ill-
fame within the corporate limits, and to provide for the pun-
ishment of keepers or maintainers of such houses; to regulate
and provide for issuing licenses and permits for vending wares
or merchandise within the town limits, and for issuing licenses
and permits for hawking or peddling wares or merchandise
upon the streets or highways or from house to house; to issue
licenses to any and all persons entering into or beginning tran-
sient business in the town for the sale of any goods, wares or
merchandise; to regulate and provide for the issuing of licenses
to all traveling persons who dispense medicines or medical
advice; to license or issue permits to all players or showman
exhibiting within the town and to regulate and restrain all
public amusements in said town; to regulate licenses and tax
all hotels, restaurants and saloons and all other places where
malt, spirituous, vinous or fermented liquors are sold, and no
license for the manufacture or sale of such liquors shall be
issued for a less sum than fifteen dollars not more than one
hundred and fifty dollars; to regulate, license and tax all
hackney carriages, omnibuses or other vehicles used for the
carriage of passengers, freight or merchandise, or ply for hire;
to levy a tax and impose a license upon dogs; to regulate ana
license auctioneers who cry public sales within the corporate
limits; provided, that no greater sum than twenty-five dollars
be charged for any one license, except in cases of the manufac-
ture and sale of liquors aforesaid; to provide penalties for
obstructing any officer of the corporation or any member of
the Burgess and Commissioners in the performance of his duty;
to provide for the codification of all the town ordinances which
have or may be passed, and for the purpose of carrying out
the aforegoing powers and for the preservation of the cleanli-
ness, health, peace and good order of the community, and ta
protect the lives and property of the citizens; to suppress and
abate all nuisances within the corporate and sanitary limits
of the town, they may pass all ordinances or by-laws they may
deem necessary, and to insure the observance of said ordi-
nances or by-laws they may affix thereto such reasonable fines,
not exceeding twenty dollars in any one case, as to them may
appear right.