734 LAWS OF MARYLAND. [CH. 338

and protect the public grounds and property of the town;
to establish and regulate a station house or lockup for tem-
porary confinement of violators of the law and ordinances
of the town; to suppress vagrancy; to prohibit or restrain
the keeping of bawdy houses or houses of ill-fame within
the limits of the town; and to provide for the punishment
of all persons, who shall keep, authorize or suffer to be
kept, any such bawdy houses or houses of ill-fame; to
regulate and provide for the issuing of licenses or permits
for all hawking, peddling and vending of wares and mer-
chandise of every description upon the streets or highways
of the town, and to issue licenses or permits to all itinerant
peddlers who may go from house to house to vend or sell
any wares or merchandise; to issue licenses to any and
all persons entering into or beginning transient business
in said town for the sale of any goods, wares or merchan-
dise; to regulate and provide for the issuing of licenses
to all traveling persons who dispense medicines or medical
advice; they shall also have power to demand a license from
all players or showmen exhibiting within the town, and
to provide for licensing theatres and to regulate or restrain
theatrical or other public amusements within said town;
to regulate, license and tax restaurants, breweries and all
saloons and other places where malt, spirituous, vinous
and fermented liquors are sold; to regulate, license and tax
all hackney carriages, omnibuses or other vehicles used in
said town for the carriage of passengers; all vehicles used
for the carriage or transportation of freight or merchan-
dise and all carts or other vehicles which ply for hire; to
levy a tax and impose a license upon dogs, and to impose
a license upon all gas companies, water companies and
telephone companies, brokers, real estate and insurance
agencies, located in or doing business in said town; and
to regulate and license auctioneers who cry any public
sales within the corporate limits of the town; provided,
that no greater sum than one hundred dollars shall be
charged for any one license, except a license fee not exceed-
ing five hundred dollars may be charged for hawking and
peddling and vending or for entering into or beginning the
transient business of selling goods, wares or merchandise;
and to regulate and control all offensive trades, manufac-
tures and traffic in offensive fertilizers or other commodi-
ties within the town limits; they shall also have power to
provide for the codification of all ordinances which may
have been or may hereafter be passed; and for the purpose
of carrying out the foregoing powers, and for the preser-
vation of the cleanliness, health, peace and good order of
the community, and for the protection of the lives and