ALBERT C. RITCHIE, GOVERNOR. 499

dance halls, boxing or sparring exhibitions, moving picture
shows, theatres and all other, places of public amusement,'
auctioneers, automobiles used for hire, trucks, carts or wagons
used for hire> livery stables, hucksters, and any and all retail
stores, public exhibitions to which an admission is charged,
and any and all other trades, professions or businesses carried
on or conducted within the corporate limits of the town; to
establish and regulate a station house or lockup for temporary
confinement of violators of the law and ordinances of the town,
and to erect suitable buildings to be used as Council Chambers
and for fire companies; to suppress vagrancy; to open and
close streets, roads, lanes and alleys, and to establish foot-
ways, when in their judgment the public welfare or conveni-
ence may require; to provide for ascertaining any and in
what amount damages may be caused thereby, for which the
owner or possessor of any property through which such street,
road, lane or alley may pass are to be compensated; to pro-
vide for granting appeals to the Circuit Court for Allegany
County from the decisions of Commissioners or other persons
appointed by virtue of any ordinance to open and close
streets; to ascertain the damage occasioned by the opening,
closing or establishing or altering of streets, roads, lanes, or
alleys, in said town, and to secure for the person or any per-
son injured the right, on application within thirty days from
the return of the commissioners, to have decided by Jury trial,
whether any and what damage, if any, has been sustained by
him; to provide for collecting and paying the compensation
or award to any person before any street, road, lane or alley
shall be opened, closed, established or altered, and to enact
all ordinances from time to time necessary and proper for the
exercise of the powers granted in this section ; provided, how-
ever, that whenever the Major and Council proposes to open,
close, alter or establish any street, road, lane or alley at least
thirty days' notice by advertising in a newspaper published
once a week in Allegany County, or by hand bills freely dis-
tributed, shall be given to all parties interested, of the inten-
tion of the Mayor and Council and of the time of the con-
sideration of such action; to provide for the codification of
all ordinances that may be passed and for the printing and
publishing of the same; and the printed copy of all such ordi-
nances, when approved by the Mayor and Council shall be
legal evidence of the passage of such ordinance and of the con-