ALBERT C. RITCHIE, GOVERNOR.                1159

with, as may be deemed necessary, with a contractor or con-
tractors, after providing for the receiving of bids and the
awarding of such licenses or contracts to perform the service
of collecting and disposing of such ashes, trash, garbage and
refuse, under such regulations as may be established to author-
ize reasonable charges for such services and to provide the
method of collecting the same.

For the purpose of carrying out any power or discharging
any duty conferred by this Act and in order to safeguard and
protect the public health, safety or morals, the said Board of
County Commissioners is hereby authorized and empowered
to make, pass and promulgate rules, regulations or ordinances
concerning any of the powers or subjects of this Act; pro-
vided that such rules, regulations or ordinances shall contain
proper standards for the exercise of the discretion conferred
herein, shall operate uniformly, shall be adopted by a yea and
nay vote and the names of the County Commissioners voting
for and against the same shall be entered in the minutes of said
board and that before the said board shall proceed to enforce
any rule, regulation or ordinance passed in pursuance of this
Act, advertisement of such rule, regulation or ordinance shall
be made in some newspaper published in Montgomery County,
once a week for two successive weeks before any rule, regula-
tion or ordinance so passed shall be enforced; and said Board
of County Commissioners is further authorized and empow-
ered to provide in such rules, regulations or ordinances that
any person who violates the provisions of the same upon con-
viction before any court having criminal jurisdiction in said
county shall be deemed guilty of a misdemeanor and shall be
fined not more than fifty ($50. 00) dollars for each violation,
and in default of any fine so imposed may be imprisoned for
a period not to exceed thirty days for each violation; and pro-
vided further, that in any prosecution for the violation of any
rule, regulation of ordinance or of any provision thereof, it
shall not be necessary to set forth said ordinance in full or
verbatim, but it shall be deemed sufficient if the warrant, infor-
mation or indictment upon which the person alleged to have
violated the provisions of any such rule, regulation or ordi-
nance shall be tried, shall recite generally and briefly the title
and number of such ordinance, rule or regulation, with the
date of its passage, a description of the offense in words of
common usage, or if the ordinance has been embraced in a
codification, if it refers to the number of the Article and sec-