CARROLL COUNTY. 691

DRAINS AND HEALTH,

Sec. 224. The Mayor and Common Council shall have power
to provide by ordinance for the construction, opening, enlarg-
ing or straightening of any sewer or drain and for regulation
of the same; for paving and keeping in repair all necessary

sewers and drains or gutters; to provide by ordinances for the
purchase and condemnation of private or public property, as
is now provided in this Act for the condemnation and opening
of streets in said city, for the purpose of paving, building and
maintaining any sewer or drain for surface water in said city;
they are empowered to by ordinance regulate and prohibit cess-
pools, earth pits and other means of sewage disposal; to regu-
late or exclude places where offensive trades or any offensive
occupation is conducted or engaged in; to regulate or exclude
pig pens within the corporate limits; to pass ordinances gov-
erning the disposal of garbage or refuse; to regulate or exclude
slaughter houses within the corporate limits; to pass ordi-
nances to close polluted wells, springs and other sources of
water supply when such sources shall be certified by the State
Board of Health, after proper analysis, to be polluted; and to
pass ordinances for the quarantine and regulation of all com-
municable diseases, not inconsistent with the laws of this State
or with the rules and regulations of the State Board of Health ;
and its officers may enter upon and into any private property
or building whenever necessary to execute or enforce any such

ordinance.

LICENSES.

SEC. 225. The Mayor and Common Council of Westminster

shall have full power and authority to regulate and provide
for the issuing of licenses or permits for all hawking, ped-
dling and vending of patents, and of goods, wares and mer-
chandise of every description, upon the streets, lanes, alleys or
Highways of the city of Westminster; to issue licenses or per-
mits to all itinerant peddlers who may go from house to house
to vend or sell any goods, wares or merchandise; to issue
licenses to.any and all persons entering into or beginning any
transient business in said city, for the sale or purchase of any
goods, wares or merchandise; to impose a license upon all fire
insurance companies and agencies located in or doing business
in said city; to regulate and provide for the issuing of licenses
to all traveling persons or peddlers who dispense medicines or
medical advice; to regulate, license and tax restaurants and
saloons, and other places where malt, spirituous, vinous or
fermented liquors are sold; to regulate, license and tax all
hackney carriages, omnibuses or other vehicles used in said

rity for the carriage of passengers or which ply for hire; all