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of pictures, the selling of soaps and perfumes, or any and all
other merchandise by solicitors, agents, or peddlers.

The said Mayor and City Council shall have power to enforce
the ordinances by fines and penalties and by imprisonments, and
may establish and maintain a city prison, and the committing
Magistrate or Court may confine therein all persons convicted of
violations of their ordinances in default of the payment of fines
imposed for such violations, or may at their option confine such
persons in the county jail; and the said Mayor and City Coun-
cil may require such persons in default in the payment of fines
to work out such fines and costs upon the streets or other im-
provements of said city, such persons to be allowed as a credit
on such fines and costs the same wages as are paid other em-
ployees of said city for the same work; and anyone shall have
the right to appeal to the Circuit Court for Worcester County
from any decision or judgment of any Justice of the Peace in
any case on trial for the violation of any of the laws or ordi-
nances of said Mayor and City Council of Ocean City.

175. It shall be the duty of the Mayor and City Council of
said Ocean City to cause to be published in a newspaper issued
in Worcester County an itemized statement of the expenditures
of all money or moneys received by them for the collection of
taxes or from any other whatever, said statement to be pub-
lished the last week in the month of September of each and
every year.

SEC. 2. Be it further enacted as aforesaid, That this Act is
hereby declared to be an Emergency Law and necessary for the
immediate preservation of the public safety, and being passed
upon a yea and nay vote supported by three-fifths of the mem-
bers elected to each of the two Houses of the General Assembly,
the same shall take effect from the date of its passage.

Approved April 9, 1924.

CHAPTER 120.

AN ACT to amend the Charter of the Burgess and Council of
Myersville, in Frederick County, Maryland, by adding an
additional section thereto, to follow Section 9, Chapter 94
of the Acts of the General Assembly of Maryland, passed
in the January Session, 1904, entitled "An Act to incor-
porate the town of Myersville, Maryland, as repealed and
re-enacted by the Acts of the General Assembly of Maryland
of 1908, Chapter 513, and to be designated as Section 9B