648                         LAWS OF MARYLAND.                  [CH. 243

be charged and recovered by said Council in the name of the
corporation from the owners of the property fronting thereon,
by suit or action at law against the owner or owners thereof, as
other debts are collected, and the expenses of the same shall be
a lien upon the property chargeable therewith; to regulate and
license the use of coaches, hacks, drays, automobiles and all
other vehicles for the transportation of 'passengers, freight or
other articles to or from points within said town for hire or
pay; to regulate, license, tax, restrain or prohibit theatrical
and all other exhibitions, shows or entertainments for which
money is demanded or received; provided, that lectures on
scientific, historic, benevolent, artistic, religious or literary
subjects, and apparatus for the education of the same and
specimens of fine art, shall not be deemed to be within this
provision; to regulate the sale of all kinds of property at auc-
tion in the streets, stores, shops or elsewhere in the town, and
to license auctioneers and all vendors of property on the streets
or squares or other places in said town; to license, tax, regulate,
suppress and prohibit hawkers and itinerant dealers, peddlers
and pawnbrokers and to revoke such license at pleasure; to li-
cense, tax and regulate branch stores and all other concerns
established in said town for temporary business only.

214. The said Mayor and Council may from time to time
cause an assessment to be made of all the property liable to
State and county taxes within the corporate limits of said town
of Grantsville, and to levy a tax thereon not exceeding
one dollar on the one hundred dollars in each year, and
said property shall be assessed at its actual cash value and the
said Mayor and Council may by ordinance provide methods
and means for the collection of said taxes and for the enforce-
ment of the payment thereof.

SEC. 2. And be it further enacted, That this Act is hereby
declared to be an emergency law and necessary for the imme-
diate preservation of the public health and safety, and being
passed upon a yea and nay vote, supported by three-fifths of
all the members elected to each of the two Houses of the Gen-
eral Assembly, the same shall take effect from the date of its

Approved April 17, 1931.