44 LAWS OF MARYLAND. [CH. 21

tection of all public property, cemeteries and property of all
public service companies or corporations and for any franchise,
easement or privilege hereafter granted the Mayor and Council
may charge for such franchise, easements or privileges when
granted, and may charge an annual rental upon any franchise,
easement or privilege for using the streets, highways, and side-
walks of said town that hitherto has been granted or may here-
after be granted; to regulate and license auctioneers who cry
any public sales within the corporate limits of the town; to
regulate and control all offensive trades, manufacture and
traffic in offensive fertilizers or other commodities within the
town limits; to provide for the codification of all ordinances
which may have been or may hereafter be passed; and for the
purpose of carrying out the aforegoing powers and for the
preservation of the cleanliness, health, peace and good order
of the community, and for the protection of the lives and prop-
erty of the citizens, and to suppress, abate and discontinue, or
cause to be suppressed, abated or discontinued all nuisances
within the corporate and sanitary limits of said town, they may
pass all ordinances or by-laws from time to time necessary, and
to insure the observance of said ordinances in addition to the
usual action of debt or such other civil remedies as may exist
in such cases by law for the recovery of the penalties thereto
affixed, the Mayor and Council shall have the power to enforce
the observation of all ordinances or by-laws by fine, penalty
and forfeiture not exceeding One Hundred Dollars ($100. 00)
for any one offense, or by imprisonment not exceeding sixty
(60) days in the Caroline County jail, or by both fine and
imprisonment.

Section 39. The Mayor and Council of Federalsburg shall
have the power to regulate all sub-divisions of land within the
corporate limits of the town of Federalsburg, and for the pur-
pose of carrying into effect this sub-section no plat or plan of
any such sub-division upon which any street, alley, lane, ave-
nue, thoroughfare or public highway shall have been laid out,
shall be received by the Clerk of the Circuit Court for Caro-
line County for record among the Land Records of said Caro-
line County until the said plat or plan has been approved in
writing by the Mayor and Council of Federalsburg, and said
approval stamped thereon. The Mayor and Council of Fed-
eralsburg shall have power to prescribe rules and regulations
governing the filing of plats or plans for such sub-division and
requiring all properties so sub-divided to have permanent mark-