ALBERT C. RITCHIE, GOVERNOR. 1143

SECTION 1. Be it enacted by the General Assembly of Mary-
land, That Section 172 of Staton's Code of Public Local Laws
of Worcester County, title "Ocean City, " be and the same is
hereby repealed and re-enacted with amendments so as to read
as follows:

172. The Mayor and City Council shall pass ordinances to
preserve the health of the city and to abate nuisances to the
inhabitants thereof; and for that purpose their jurisdiction
and control shall extend beyond the western limits of the town
to the middle of Synepuxent Bay; to prevent, restrain and
regulate the running at large of horses, cattle, swine and geese
within the limits of said city; to prohibit the firing of guns or
pistols, and to regulate the shooting of fire-crackers and fire-
works of every description within said city; to prohibit and
disperse tumultuous and disorderly meeting of idle, dissolute
and drunken persons; to provide for working and mending
public streets; to open, close, alter and widen the streets, lanes
and alleys of said city; to provide for the payment of the
salaries of the police; to provide for the erection of boardwalks
upon the sidewalks of said city; to establish building lines
and to control and regulate the erection of all buildings; to
purchase and use fire engines and other equipment for extin-
guishing fires; to provide for the regulation, good government
and improvement of the city; they shall have control and super-
intendence over the public property of the city, and the fran-
chises and the easements of the public streets of said city shall
be vested completely in them, with power to grant the same
whenever to them the interest of the public shall demand; they
may enforce the observance of any ordinances passed by them,
under such penalties and forfeitures as they may deem proper,
not exceeding twenty-five dollars for any one offense; and all
such penalties, fines and forfeitures may be recovered before a
justice of the peace by a warrant and judgment; in case of
failure or refusal to pay the same, the party so fined shall be
committed for a period not exceeding ten days, to the public
jail of said county, in the same manner that commitments are
made for fines imposed by the Circuit Court of this State and
convictions for misdemeanors; but the Mayor shall have power
to remit at any time the said fines, penalties or forfeitures and
costs, or any part thereof, at his discretion; provided, however,
that any party feeling himself aggrieved by such fines, pen-
alties or forfeitures, shall have his appeal to the Circuit Court,
as appeals are now regulated by law, and the fines and for-