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license, tax and regulate all trades, business avocations and pro-
fessions conducted or carried on within the corporate limits of
Westminster; and may pass all ordinances necessary from time
to time to carry out the foregoing provisions, and enforce the
observance of such ordinances by reasonable fines and penal-
ties, not exceeding one hundred dollars in any one case; and
they may recover said fine or penalty by action of debt, and
in addition thereto they may provide for the imprisonment of
the offender for a period not exceeding sixty days, or until
the fine be paid; provided that no greater sum than one hun-
dred dollars be charged for any one license.

SEC. 2. And be it further enacted, That this Act shall take
effect from the date of its passage.

Approved April 1, 1927.

CHAPTER 250.

AN ACT to authorize and empower the County Commissioners
of Anne Arundel County to pay a salary of Forty Dollars
($40) a month to each of the Justices of the Peace in the
following districts: In the Third Precinct of the Fifth Elec-
tion District at Glenburnie, and in the Third Precinct of the
Fifth District at Ferndale, and in the Second Precinct of the
Fifth District at Linthicum Heights, and in the First Pre-
cinct of the Third Election District of Anne Arundel Coun-
ty; said salaries to be paid in lieu of all fees in criminal
cases and said Justices are to return to the County Commis-
sioners of Anne Arundel County, all fines, penalties, for-
feitures and costs imposed by them and which they shall
receive, for or on account of criminal offenses tried before
them under the provisions of the Code of Public General
Laws and Public Local Laws.

SECTION 1. Be it enacted by the General Assembly of
Maryland, That the County Commissioners of Anne Arundel
County are hereby authorized and empowered to pay a salary
of Forty Dollars ($40) a month to each of the Justices of the
Peace in the following districts: In the Third Precinct of the
Fifth Election District at Glenburnie, and in the Third Pre-
cinct of the Fifth District at Ferndale, and in the Second Pre-
cinct of the Fifth District at Linthicum Heights, and in the