ALBERT C. RITCHIE, GOVERNOR. 439

SECTION 1. Be it enacted by the General Assembly of
Maryland, That Section 225 of Article Y of the Code of Public
Local Laws, title "Carroll County, " sub-title "Westminster, "
as repealed and re-enacted by Chapter 341 of the Acts of the
General Assembly of Maryland, passed at its January Session
in the year 1910, be and the same is hereby repealed and re-
enacted with amendments, so as to read as follows:

LICENSES.

Section 225. The Mayor and Common Council of West-
minster shall have full power and authority to regulate and
provide for the issuing of licenses or permits for all hawking,
peddling and vending of patents, and of goods, wares and mer-
chandise of every description, upon the streets, lanes, alleys or
highways of the City of Westminster; to issue licenses or per-
mits to all itinerant peddlers who may go from house to house
to vend or sell any goods, wares or merchandise; to issue
licenses to any and all persons entering into or beginning any
transient business in said City, for the sale or purchase of any
goods, wares or merchandise; to impose a license upon all fire
insurance companies, and agencies located in or doing business
in said City; to regulate and provide for the issuing of licenses
to all traveling persons or peddlers who dispenses medicines or
medical advice; to regulate, license and tax restaurants or
lunch rooms, ice cream parlors and soda water fountains; to
regulate, license and tax all business conducted in said city
for the transportation or carriage of passengers for hire, and
license and tax the business of transporting, carrying or de-
livering freight, goods, wares or merchandise within said city,
and may provide for the numbering of the vehicles engaged in
such business, and may base said license upon the number of
vehicles so employed or used by any firm, person or individual
in the conduct of such business; to regulate and license all
pawnbrokers, junk dealers, fire sales and auction sales; to regu-
late and license all nine and ten pin alleys, bowling alleys,
skating rinks, theatres, moving picture parlors, boxing and
sporting matches, wrestling contests and all shows and exhibi-
tions of every kind; to license or tax the erection of poles and
use thereof by telephone, telegraph, electric light or other com-
panies; to license all billiard, pool and bagatelle tables kept
for public use; to license dogs and to provide for the killing of
those going at large unlicensed; and generally, in addition to
the powers to license hereinbefore particularly enumerated, to
have the same power which the State of Maryland has to