1356 LAWS OF MARYLAND [CH. 714

to them may appear necessary for the violation of any of the
ordinances of said town. They shall have power to establish
and regulate a station house or lock-up for confinement of
violators of the law and ordinances of said town. They shall
have power to make reasonable regulations in regards to build-
ings to be erected in said town and to grant building permits
for the same; to make and establish grades on the streets and
highways of the town ; to cause the sidewalks and gutters along
the public streets and highways of said town to be graded,
paved or repaired at the cost and expense of the abutting
property or the owner thereof and to collect from said abutting
property or owner thereof the cost of making said improve-
ments thereto, when made by the Mayor and Commissioners
of Westernport, after refusal or neglect on the part of the
property owner to do so after reasonable notice, the cost of
which improvement as made by the Mayor and Commission-
ers, shall be a lien against said abutting property and collect-
able as are liens for taxes against said property or owner
thereof; to charge for and grant licenses for marketable com-
modities and for carrying on any business, trade, industry,
profession or occupation within the limits of said town and
more specifically in connection therewith but not by way of
limitations or restrictions, to regulate and provide for the
issuing of licenses or permits for all hawking, peddling and
vending of wares, merchandise of every description upon the
streets and highways of the town, to impose and demand a
license from all players or showmen exhibiting within said
town and to provide for licensing theatres and to regulate or
restrain theatrical or other public amusements within said
town; to regulate and license the business of conducting
restaurants, saloons, hotels or any other business enterprise
carried on within the said town, to license carriages, wagons or
other vehicles used in said town and upon the streets thereof
for the purpose of carrying passengers or goods: to regulate
and license auctioneers, who cry any sale or sales on the pub-
lic street. To insure the observance of said ordinances, occupa-
tions, activities or offenses set forth in said ordinances in addi-
tion to the action of debt or such other civil remedies as may
exist in such cases by law for the recovery of the penalties
thereunto affixed, they may affix such reasonable fine, not ex-
ceeding one hundred dollars ($100.00) in any case, as to them
may appear right, and in default of the payment of any fine