ALBERT C. RITCHIE, GOVERNOR. 739
CHAPTER 409.

AN ACT to exempt the property of volunteer fire companies
or departments in Prince George's County from all local
taxation and from certain charges.

(Vetoed. )

CHAPTER 410.

AN ACT to repeal and re-enact, with amendments, Section
216 of Article 17 of the Code of Public Local Laws of
Maryland, title "Prince George's County, " sub-title
"Laurel, " as the same was repealed and re-enacted by the
Acts of Assembly of 1916, Chapter 171.

SECTION 1. Be it enacted by the General Assembly of
Maryland, That Section 216 of Article 17 of the Code of
Public Local Laws of Maryland, title "Prince George's Coun-
ty, " sub-title "Laurel, " as the same was repealed and re-
enacted by the Acts of 1916, Chapter 171, be and the same
is hereby repealed and re-enacted, with amendments, to read
as follows:

Section 216. They may pass such ordinances, resolutions
or regulations for the good government, improvement and
comfort of the town and the inhabitants thereof as to them
may seem proper:

To prevent and remove all nuisances within said town; to
restrain disorders and disturbances.

To forbid, prevent and remove all nuisances within said
town, and to define and prescribe what shall be a nuisance;
to restrain disorders and disturbances of every kind; to forbid
any person from carrying firearms or other concealed weapons;
to open and close streets, fix the grade thereof, straighten,
widen and improve the same; to make causeways; to establish
the width and grade of sidewalks, and pave the same and set
out shade trees thereon; to prohibit the firing of guns and
pistols, cannon, rifles or other explosives in the town, and
the tumultuous, irregular and disorderly meetings of idle
and dissolute persons; to regulate the location, erection or
repairing of buildings and grant permits therefor; to impose