HERBERT R. O'CONOR, GOVERNOR. 83

CHAPTER 64
(Senate Bill 127)

AN ACT to repeal and re-enact with amendments Section
359 of Article 7 of the Code of Public Local Laws of
Maryland (1930 Edition), title "Carroll County", sub-
title "Sykesville", to provide for the regulation and
taxation of hawkers, peddlers and vendors of goods,
wares and merchandise upon the streets, lanes, alleys
and highways of the town of Sykesville.

SECTION 1. Be it enacted by the General Assembly of
Maryland, That Section 359 of Article 7 of the Code of
Public Local Laws of Maryland (1930 Edition), title
"Carroll County", sub-title "Sykesville", be and it is hereby
repealed and re-enacted with amendments to read as fol-
lows:

359. The Mayor and Common Council shall have full
power or authority to provide by ordinance for the regula-
tion and taxation by requiring a license or permit, and to
provide for the issuance of such licenses or permits for all
hawking, peddling and vending of goods, wares and mer-
chandise of every description upon the streets, lanes, alleys
or highways of the town of Sykesville, and to issue licenses
or permits regulating and taxing all itinerant peddlers
who may go from house to house to vend or sell any goods,
wares or merchandise; to issue licenses to any and all
persons entering into or beginning any transient business
in said city, for the sale of any goods, wares or merchan-
dise; to regulate and tax and to that end to provide for the
issuing of licenses to all traveling persons who dispense
medicines or medical advice; to levy a tax on all gas com-
panies, water companies and electric light companies; to
impose a license on all telephone and telegraph companies,
which license shall not exceed one dollar for each pole
erected within the limits of the said corporation; to license
dogs, and to provide for the killing of all worthless, dan-
gerous and annoying dogs, and of all dogs not properly
licensed; and they may pass all ordinances necessary from
time to time to carry out and enforce the foregoing provi-
sions, and to enforce the observance of such ordinances
by reasonable fines and penalties, not exceeding fifty dol-
lars in any one case, as may appear to them right, and they
may recover said fine or penalty by an action of debt, and
in addition thereto they may provide for the imprisonment
of the offender for a period not exceeding thirty days, or
until the fine is paid.