786 LAWS OF MARYLAND. [CH. 328

of theatres and to regulate and restrain theatrical or other
amusements that might be detrimental to the morals of the
town; to regulate and license auctioneers who cry sales on the
streets of the town; to put a license upon all saloons, hotels,
taverns, restaurants and all other places where malt, spirit-
uous or fermented liquors or lager beer are sold. The said
The Mayor and Commissioners of Barton shall have power to
regulate and control all offensive trades, manufactures and
traffic in offensive, dangerous or explosive materials in said
town; they shall also have power to regulate the sanitary con-
dition of the town and to establish a Board of Health for the
proper control of contagious diseases; they may provide for
the codification of all ordinances1 which may from time to
time be passed for the purpose of carrying out the foregoing
powers; and to the observance of said ordinances, in addition
to the action of debt or such other civil remedies as may exist
in such cases by law for the recovery of the penalty thereto
affixed, they 'may affix thereto such reasonable fines not exceed-
ing fifty ($50.00) dollars in any one case as to them may
appear just and proper, and in default of payment of any
fine so imposed, they may provide for imprisonment of the
offender for a period not exceeding twenty days in the County
Jail or until said fine is paid. Instead of the aforesaid pen-
alties, it shall be lawful in case of conviction of any person
for vagrancy to sentence such persons to hard work on the
streets of said town for a period not exceeding ten days.

SEC. 8. And be it enacted, That the said The Mayor and
Commissioners of Barton shall have power to levy an equal
tax within the corporate limits of said town, to such an extent
or amount each year not exceeding fifty cents on each one hun-
dred dollars' worth of assessed valuation as they may deem
necessary for the government of said town. Taxes so levied
and assessed shall be properly collected by the bailiff of said
town and by the said bailiff paid over as collected, or within
five days thereafter to the Treasurer of said town; and the
bailiff of said town shall have the same power to distrain for
taxes as the Treasurer of Allegany County now has to distrain
for the same; and the said Mayor and Commissioners shall
fix the amount of bond, the rate of compensation and pre-
scribe the dutiea of said bailiff; said bond shall guarantee the
collection of all taxes imposed by the Mayor and Commis-
sioners of Barton except such insolvencies as may from time
to time be allowed by said The Mayor and Commissioners.