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Session Laws, 1914
Volume 533, Page 545   View pdf image (33K)
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PHILLIPS LEE GOLDSBOROUGH, GOVERNOR. 545

exist in such cases by law for the recovery of the penalties
thereunto affixed, they may affix thereto such reasonable fines,
not exceeding fifty ($50) dollars in any case, as to them may
appear right, and in default of the payment of' any fine imposed,
they may provide for the imprisonment of the offenders for a
period not exceeding thirty (30) days, or until the fine is paid;
or either fine or imprisonment in the County Jail, or both, pro-
vided that the fine in no case shall exceed fifty ($50) dollars,
nor imprisonment be for a longer period than thirty (30) days;
provided, that no ordinance shall be adopted except by yea and
nay vote, and the names of the members of the Council voting
/or or against the same shall be entered in the minutes; the
Mayor and Council shall have power in their discretion to
appropriate money to aid in promoting the efficiency of the
public schools located within the limits of the town.

13-B. It shall be unlawful to provide a place for betting or
gambling purposes, or to bet, wager or gamble in any manner
or by any means, or to make or sell pools within the corporate
limits of the Town of Gaithersburg, Maryland, on the result of
any race of any kind. The Council shall also have the power
to license, regulate or prohibit any place of public amusement,
or recreation, pleasure parks, picnic grounds, club houses,
theatrical exhibitions, baseball grounds, bowling alleys, billiard
or pool rooms, camp-meeting grounds or public assembly of any
kind. The said Mayor and Council shall also have power by
ordinance to provide for the punishment of any person, persons
or corporation who shall violate any of the provisions of this
Section by a fine not to exceed fifty ($50.00) dollars in any one
case, or imprisonment in the County Jail for a period not ex-
ceeding thirty (30) days or both.

13-C. To carry out the provisions of this Act and for the
purpose of establishing improving any street, sidewalk, alley or
public highway, or any part or parts thereof, or other necessary
purposes, the said Mayor and Council are hereby given power
and authority to borrow money, from time to time as may be
needed, on the credit of the town, not in excess of a total of five
thousand ($5,000) dollars, and to issue certificates of indebted-
ness as evidence thereof. All sums so borrowed shall be kept
in a separate account to be known as '' The Street Improvement
Account," or such other account or accounts as are designated
from time to time by the Mayor and Council according to the
improvement or improvements for which the money is borrowed,
and shall be borrowed for no longer period than twenty (20)

 

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