148 LAWS OF MARYLAND. [CH. 73

lect on the part of the property owner to do so after reason-
able notice, the cost of which improvement as made by the
Mayor and Commissioners, shall be a lien against said abut-
ting property and collectible as are liens for taxes against said
property or owner thereof; to charge for and grant licenses,
trade, industry, profession or occupation within the limits of
said town and more specifically in connection therewith 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 the 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 busi-
ness 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 public streets; to insure 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
of the penalties thereunto affixed; they may affix such reason-
able fine, not exceeding one hundred dollars ($100. 00) in any
case, as to them may appear right, and in default of the pay-
ment of any fine imposed, they may provide for the imprison-
ment of the offender for a period not exceeding thirty (30)
days or until the fine is paid, which imprisonment may be in
the town lock-up or in the county jail; that all tines or for-
feitures imposed by the ordinances of the town of Luke shall
be imposed by a justice of the peace of Allegany County, for
the election district in which said town is located, upon a
warrant to be issued, directed to the bailiff of said town or
any policeman thereof.

SEC. 6. And be it further enacted, That the Mayor and
Commissioners of Luke shall cause to be maintained a regis-
tration of the legal and qualified voters residing within the
corporate limits of the town of Luke; said registration shall
specify the residence of the voters on each street, lane or alley
and such further information as the Mayor and Commissioners
of Luke may consider necessary to show their qualifications as
such voters, and such, registration shall be essential to the right
to vote at any election held under the charter of Luke; the