ALBERT C. RITCHIE, GOVERNOR. 1567

and welfare, the County Commissioners are hereby authorized
to pass rules, regulations or ordinances for the purpose of car-
rying out the powers herein granted; provided that such rules,
regulations or ordinances shall contain proper standards for
the exercise of the discretion conferred herein, shall operate
uniformly, and that before the County Commissioners shall
proceed to enforce any rule, regulation or ordinance passed
in pursuance of the provisions of this Act, advertisement of
such rule, regulation or ordinance shall be made in some news-
paper published in Montgomery County, once a week for four
successive weeks, before any rule, regulation or ordinance so
passed shall be enforced. The County Commissioners are here-
by authorized to adopt and enforce a uniform schedule of fees
for licensing any class of business or enterprise as they may
deem necessary, and shall collect all fees so determined, and
pay the same over to the County Treasurer for the use of the
County; to establish markets and regulate hours and limits
thereof and the mode of dealing in relation thereto; to provide
by ordinance for condemning, laying-out, opening, extending
and making new streets or alleys and for altering, straighten-
ing, widening, grading, improving or closing up in whole or in
part, any existing street or alley; to regulate all offensive
trades, manufacture and traffic in offensive fertilizers and other
offensive commodities and prohibit hog-pens, stables, cow yards
and slaughter houses within the District and to regulate the
manner of disposing of offal and waste products, except sew-
age, garbage, refuse and ashes, provided, that such ordinances
may apply to any portion of the said district, and be it further
provided, that the power of the Conn ty Commissioners to in-
spect, license, regulate and limit as to location club houses
shall not apply to the club houses of country clubs within the
District which were in existence and operation on January 1,
1927, and which on that date had a public or private list of
fifty or more bona fide members paying dues and which on
that date maintained on the club premises at least two of the
following athletic facilities for their membership, to wit:

1. A golf course of nine holes or more,

2. Two or more tennis courts, or

3. A swimming pool not less than 40 feet in length and
20 feet in width.

For the purpose of carrying out the powers conferred upon
them by this bill or for the protection of the health, safety,