474 LAWS OF MARYLAND. [CH. 169

injury; to protect song birds; to provide by ordinance for con-
demning, laying out, opening, extending and making new
streets or alleys, and for altering, straightening, widening,
grading, improving or closing up, in whole or in part, any ex-
isting street or alley, and for laying out public squares, parks,
drains, sewers or water courses; to establish and regulate a
station-house or lock-up for the temporary confinement of vio-
lators of the law and ordinances of the town; to levy a tax and
impose a license upon dogs or other animals or fowls running at
large; to regulate and control all offensive trades, manufac-
turers and traffic in offensive fertilizers or other commodities
and prohibit hog-pens and slaughter houses within the town
limits; to control by ordinance the mode of constructing privies
and sinks, and the manner of disposing of offal and waste prod-
ucts, and, in general, to pass such ordinances as they may
deem proper, necessary and beneficial to the town.

(B) For the purpose of carrying out the powers conferred
by this Charter, and for preservation of the cleanliness, health,
peace and good order of the community, and for the protection
of the lives and property of the citizens, and to suppress, abate,
or discontinue, or cause to be suppressed, abated or discon-
tinued, all nuisances within the corporate limits of said town,
they may pass all ordinances or by-laws from time to time
necessary; and to insure the observance of such ordinances, in
addition to the action of debt or such other civil remedies as
may exist in such cases by law for the recovery of the penal-
ties thereunto affixed, they may affix thereto such reasonable
fines, not exceeding fifty dollars in any case, as to them may
appear right, and in default of the payment of any fine im-
posed, they may provide for the imprisonment of the offenders
for a period not exceeding thirty days, or until the fines are
paid; provided, that no ordinance shall be adopted except by a
yea and nay vote, and the names of the members of the Council
voting for and against the same shall be entered in the minutes.

(C) The Council is hereby authorized to pay over to the
Board of County School Commissioners of Montgomery and,
or, Prince George's County, such sums as may in the discretion
of the Council be necessary or advisable, for expenditure within
the corporate limits of the town, for the purpose of aiding in
the acquisition of land for school and playground sites; aiding
in the construction, operation, and maintenance of public
school buildings; assisting in the payment of salaries of public
school teachers, and generally to aid in promoting the efficiency