ALBERT C. RITCHIE, GOVERNOR.                1151

CHAPTER 459.

AN ACT to repeal and re-enact, with amendments, Chapter
692 of the Acts of the General Assembly of Maryland,
Session of 1927, entitled "An Act to create a special tax
area or district in Montgomery County to be known as
'The Montgomery County Suburban District'; to prescribe
the boundaries thereof; to provide for the government of
said district by the County Commissioners of Montgomery
County; to designate the said County Commissioners of
Montgomery County as the legislative body and district
council for the said district; to empower the said County
Commissioners within the limits of the said district to
make regulations affecting buildings; to construct and light
roads, streets, sidewalks, gutters and buildings for the pur-
pose of this Act and to provide for hearings with respect
thereto; to permit under restrictions construction and
maintenance of telegraph, telephone lines and electric light
lines and gas mains and the laying of railroad and street
car tracks and operation of cars thereon; to contract for
municipal purposes; to inspect, license for regulation or
revenue, regulate and limit as to location, places of amuse-
ment or other public places, sanitariums, hospitals, homes
for children and convalescent homes; to enact ordinances
for the protection of the health, safety, welfare or morals
of the district and to attach penalties for violation of such
ordinances; to establish and regulate markets; to provide
by ordinance for condemning, opening or closing, widen-
ing, improving streets or alleys; to regulate all offensive
trades, manufactures or traffic, and prohibit hog pens,
stables, cow yards or slaughter houses, and regulate the
manner of disposal of offal and waste products except
sewage, garbage, refuse and ashes; to enter upon private
property and designate restraint or injury to such entry a
misdemeanor; to fix the duties and compensation of the
County Commissioners from the Fourth and Fifth Com-
missioner Districts for Montgomery County and provide
for the appointment and compensation of clerks and an
attorney and prescribe their duties; to authorize and em-
power the said Board to issue and sell county bonds for
the construction of roads within the said district in an
amount not to exceed two hundred and fifty thousand dol-
lars ($250, 000. 00) par value, and to provide for the levy