1156                      LAWS OF MARYLAND.                  [CH. 459

in depth along the southern side of the State Road from the
Brookeville Pike (Georgia Avenue extended) to a point on
said road 600 feet east from the intersection of said road with
the public road running from Georgia Avenue at Montgomery
Hills subdivision to Forest Glen by way of Linden; (4) the
territory within the limits of all municipalities and special
taxing areas in Montgomery County within the limits of the
district created hereby as such municipalities and special tax
areas exist, and (5) all that portion of the Washington Sub-
urban Sanitary District which lies within the limits of the
Fourth Commissioner District of Montgomery County on the
date of the passage of this Act.

2. That the County Commissioners of Montgomery County
are hereby for all of the purposes of this Act, designated as
the administrative body and district council for the said Mont-
gomery County Suburban District, and which Board of Coun-
ty Commissioners is hereby given, for the purposes of this Act,
all legislative powers with which it can, in a constitutional
manner be vested by the General Assembly of Maryland. In
addition to the powers vested in said County Commissioners
by existing law, the said board is hereby authorized within the
said district to make reasonable regulations affecting the kind,
size and character (including the material used therein) of
buildings to be erected in said district; to license for the pur-
pose of regulation or revenue all and every kind of business
transacted or carried on within the district and to fix the rate
of license upon the same and provide for the collection thereof
by suit or otherwise; to inspect, license, regulate and limit as
to location any place of public amusement or recreation, pleas-
ure parks, picnic grounds, club houses, theatrical exhibitions,
baseball grounds, bowling alleys, billiard or pool rooms, camp
meeting grounds, graveyards, sanitariums, hospitals, homes for
the aged, orphan asylums, homes for children and convalescent
homes, signs or sign boards on or near State or county roads
provided that the power of the said County Commissioners to
inspect, license, regulate and limit as to location, club houses
shall not apply to club houses of county clubs within the dis-
trict which were in existence and operation on January 1?
1927, and which on that date had a public or private list of
fifty or more bona fide members paying dues and which on that
date maintained on the club premises at least two of the fol-
lowing athletic facilities for their membership, to wit: