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sub-title "Princess Anne, " as enacted by Chapter 543 of
the Acts of the General Assembly of Maryland of 1894,
and to re-enact the same with amendments.

SECTION 1. Be it enacted by the General Assembly of Mary-
land, That Section 204 of Article 20 of the Code of Public
Local Laws of Maryland, title "Somerset County, " sub-title
"Princess Anne, " as enacted by Chapter 543 of the Acts of
1894, be and the same is hereby repealed and re-enacted so as
to read as follows:

204. The President and Commissioners of Princess Anne
shall have power to pass all by-laws and ordinances not contrary
to law, as they may deem necessary for the good government of
the town to preserve the health, peace, safety and well being of.
the inhabitants and the protection of the property thereof; to
prevent and remove all nuisances and obstructions from the
streets, lanes and alleys, navigable waters, or wharves, and from
lots adjoining streets, or any other place within the limits of
said town; to restrain all disorder, disturbances, annoyances,
disorderly conduct and drunkenness therein, to suppress street
walkers and bawdy houses; to prevent firing of guns, cannons,
pistols, rifles, sling-shots, firecrackers or other fireworks or
other explosives therein; to suppress fires and prevent the
dangers thereof; to establish and maintain a fire department; to
establish the distance buildings shall be erected from the inner
curb of the street line; to regulate the construction or repair-
ing of buildings specifying the materials of which same shall be
built and the granting of permits for the construction and re-
pairing of buildings; and to require a reasonable fee for issuing
such permit; to direct in what part of the town wooden buildings
shall not be erected or constructed; to prevent and regulate the
storage of gun-powder, oil or other combustible matter in such
quantities and in such places as they may deem proper; to pre-
vent obstructions on the streets, lanes, alleys and highways
of said city; to regulate the width of tires of all vehicles used
upon the streets, lanes, alleys and highways of said town; to
license, regulate and tax carts, wagons, carriages, motor buses,
and other vehicles used for transporting goods or persons for
hire, or burden or pleasure, and to license any such vehicle used
for personal service, and to provide and regulate the numbering
of same; to regulate the speed of horses, wheeled vehicles,
bicycles, motor-cycles and automobiles in the town limits; to
regulate and license all pawnbrokers, junk dealers, fire and
slaughter sales, auction sales, peddlers of nostrums, remedies,