EMERSON C. HARRINGTON, GOVERNOR. 995

ment of all persons who shall keep, authorize or suffer to be
kept, or shall frequent or visit any such bawdy-house or house
of ill-fame; to regulate and provide for the issuing of licenses
or permits for all hawking, peddling and vending of wares and
merchandise of any description upon the streets, alleys or high-
ways of the town, and to issue licenses or permits to all
itinerant peddlers who may go from house to house to sell or
vend any wares or merchandise; to regulate and provide for
the issuing of licenses to all traveling persons who dispense
medicine or medical advice; they shall also have power to
demand a license from all circuses, menageries, players or
showmen exhibiting within the limits of said town, and to
provide for licensing the rates and regulate or restrain theatri-
cal or other public amusements within said town; they shall
also have power to regulate and license or tax saloons, restau-
rants or places in which spirituous or fermented liquor or lager
beer is bartered or sold; to regulate and license all vehicles of
every description used in said town for hire; to regulate and
license auctioneers who cry any sale or sales on the public
streets, provided that no greater sum than one hundred dollars
shall be charged for any one license; and they shall also have
power by ordinance to regulate and control all slaughter houses
and offensive trades or business carried on within the limits
of said town; the Mayor and Councilmen shall have full power
and authority by ordinances, to extend the bounds and limits
set forth in the preceding sections, not exceeding one-half mile
in any one direction beyond the limits named in said preced-
ing section, whenever they shall deem expedient, provided said
extension is approved by the majority of the registered voters
residing in the territory to be annexed by a petition to, the
Mayor and City Council, said petition to be filed with the
City Clerk of said town, and shall whenever they, ex-
tend the same record the survey of every such exten-
sion as may be made together with the ordinance provid-
ing for the same from time to time among their own proceed-
ings and also among the Land Records for Allegany County;
and they also shall have power to provide for the codification
of all ordinances which have been or which may hereafter be
passed, and a printed copy of all such ordinances codified as
herein empowered when issued by the authority and sanction
of said Mayor and Councilmen shall be legal evidence of the
passage of said ordinances and of the contents thereof in any
Court of Law or Equity in this State; and for the purpose of