434 LAWS OF MARYLAND.

provide for the control of public grounds; and the property of
the town; to establish and regulate a station house or lockup for
the temporary confinement of the violator's of the laws and ordi-
nances of the town; to suppress vagrancy and to prohibit or
restrain the keeping of bawdy houses or houses of ill-fame
within the said corporate limits and to provide for the punish-
ment of all persons who shall keep or suffer to be kept in their
property any such houses; to regulate and provide for the issu-
ing of licenses or permits for all hawking, peddling or vending
of wares and merchandies of every description on the streets
or highways of. the town, and to issue licenses or permits to all
itinerant persons who dispense medicine; to demand a license
from all players or showmen exhibiting within the said town;
to provide for the licensing of theatres and to regulate or re-
strain 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, provided, however,
that no greater sum than fifty dollars be charged for any one
license. The said Commissioners shall impose a license of one
hundred dollars per annum upon all saloons, hotels, taverns,
restaurants and all other places where malt, spirituous or fer-
mented liquors and lager beer are sold, and they are given full
authority and power to pass such ordinances as they may deem
necessary for the regulation and control of said traffic in said
town, providing, however, that the State and County license
does not exceed the sum of five hundred dollars per annum; in
which case the said Commissioners may reduce or abolish the
said charge for license. The said Commissioners shall have
power to regulate and control all offensive trades, manufactur-
ers and traffic in offensive, dangerous or explosive materials in
said town; they shall also have power to regulate the sanitary
condition of the town and to establish a Board of Health for the
proper control of contagious diseases; they shall provide for
the codification of all ordinances 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 for the penalty thereto affixed,
they may affix thereto such reasonable fines not exceeding fifty
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 pro-
vide for imprisonment of the offender for a period not exceed-
ing twenty days in the County jail or until said fine is paid.
Instead of the aforesaid penalties, it shall be lawful in case