1584 LAWS OF MARYLAND.
and provide for the issuing of licenses to all traveling persons
or peddlers, who dispense medicines or medical advice; to regu-
late and license pawnbrokers, junk dealers, fire sales and auction
sales; to regulate and license all nine or ten pin alleys, bowling
alleys, skating rinks, moving picture shows and all shows and
exhibitions of every kind; to regulate the erection of poles and
use thereof by telephone, telegraph, electric light or other com-
panies; to license all billiard, pool and bagatelle tables kept for
public use; to license dogs and provide for the killing of those
going at large unlicensed; to regulate the inspection and sale
of milk, vegetables and all other foods and all weights and meas-
ures. They may pass all ordinances necessary from time to time
to carry out the aforegoing provisions, and enforce the observa-
tion of all ordinances by fines, penalties and forfeitures not ex-
ceeding one hundred dollars in any one case, or by imprisonment
not exceeding sixty days in the jail of Caroline County, provided
that no greater sum than one hundred dollars be charged for
any one license.
SEC. 17. And be it further enacted, That the Commissioners
shall have power to select any Justice of the Peace in the Fourth
Election District of Caroline County to serve as Police Judge
and said Judge selected as aforesaid is hereby given jurisdiction
to try, hear and determine all offenses and acts committed in
disregard of the ordinances of the Commissioners and upon com-
plaint made before him of the violation of any ordinance of
said Corporation he shall issue process in the name of the Com-
missioners of Preston, directed to the Bailiff, Constable or
Sheriff of Caroline County to recover the fine or penalty im-
posed for the violation of such ordinance or the arrest of the
party offending, and he shall hear and determine the matter
in controversy as in any case arising under the laws of this
State and shall receive the same fee therefor.
SEC. 18. And be it further enacted, That in default of pay-
ment of any fine or penalty imposed by said Justice of the
Peace, for the violation of any ordinance of the said Commis-
sioners, the said Justice of the Peace may commit the party
offending to the County Jail of Caroline County for the time
prescribed by said ordinance, or in the event said ordinance
omits to prescribe the fine or time, may impose a fine not ex-
ceeding one hundred dollars and in default of its payment may
commit the party to the County Jail for a period not exceeding
sixty days, or may impose both fine and imprisonment in his
discretion, and the Sheriff of said County shall receive and con-
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