488 LAWS OF MARYLAND. [CH. 304

or otherwise; to license, regulate or prohibit the solicitation
of customers by visiting the homes in the Town, ringing1 door
bells or otherwise; to license, regulate or prohibit the sale of
goods, wares or merchandise from any truck, wagon or other
vehicle, or from any basket or other receptacle; to license,
regulate or prohibit any place of public amusement or recrea-
tion, pleasure parks, picnic grounds, club houses, theatrical
exhibitions, baseball grounds, bowling alleys, billiard or pool
rooms, camp-meeting grounds or public assembly of any kind;
to establish markets and regulate the hours and limits thereof
and the mode of dealing in relation thereto; to control and
protect the public grounds and property of the Town; to estab-
lish, equip and maintain public parks and playgrounds; to
protect public buildings, churches and private buildings,
trees and fences, from defacement or injury; to protect song
birds; to provide by ordinance for condemning, laying out,
opening, extending and making new streets or alleys, and for
altering, straightening, widening, grading, improving or clos-
ing, in whole or in part, any existing street or alley, and for
laying out public squares, parks, drains, sewers or water
courses; to establish and regulate a station-house or lock-up
for the temporary confinement of violators of the law and
ordinances of the Town; to levy a tax and impose a license
upon dogs or other animals or fowls running at large; to regu-
late and control all offensive trades, manufacturers and traffic
in offensive fertilizers or other commodities and prohibit hog
pens and slaughter houses within the Town limits; to control
by ordinance the mode of constructing and location of septic
tanks and sinks, and the manner of disposing of offal and
waste products, and, in general, to pass such ordinances as
they may deem proper, necessary and beneficial to the Town.

100B. For the purpose of carrying out the powers conferred
by this Charter, and for preservation of the cleanliness, health,
peace and good order of the community, and for the protection
of the lives and property of the citizens, and to suppress, abate
and discontinue, or cause to be suppressed, abated or discon-
tinued, all nuisances within the corporate limits of said Town,
they may pass all ordinances or by-laws from time to time
necessary; and to insure the observance of such ordinances,
in addition to the action of debt or such other civil remedies
as may exist in such cases by law for the recovery of the penal-
ties thereunto affixed, they may affix thereto such reasonable
fines, not exceeding Fifty Dollars ($50. 00) in any case, as to
them may appear right, and in default of the payment of any
fine imposed, they may provide for the imprisonment of the
offenders for a period not exceeding thirty (30) days, or until
the fines are paid; provided that no ordinance shall be adopted
except by a yea and nay vote3 and the names of the members