THEODORE R. MCKELDIN, GOVERNOR 75

sub-title "Port Deposit", be and it is hereby repealed and
re-enacted, with amendments, to read as follows:

363. The President and Commissioners shall have the
power to pass ordinances regulating the market, measure-
ment and weight of all provisions sold in and to be con-
sumed in said town; to suppress all disorderly meetings;
to prevent firing guns, squibs or any kind of firearms or
fireworks in said town; to suppress and abate all nuisances;
to punish parties for exposing for sale or selling unsound
provisions; to prevent tame ducks and geese from going
at large; to prevent any immoderate driving or riding
through the streets in any carriage, stage, cart, wagon or
other vehicle, or on horseback, so as to endanger the lives
or limbs or property of the citizens of the town, or disturb
the quiet enjoyment of the streets and thoroughfares; to
prevent the parading and indecent exhibition of any
stallion through the streets; to prevent the passage through
any part of the town, of any locomotive at a greater rate
of speed than six miles per hour; and to pass all other
ordinances and by-laws necessary to give effect and opera-
tion to the powers vested in said corporation; and to
preserve order and secure property and persons from
violence, danger or destruction, and they may impose
fines, penalties or forfeitures for the breach thereof; but
no ordinance of said corporation shall impose a fine, pen-
alty or forfeiture for any offense, of more than ten dollars;
and they may provide by ordinance for the [immediate]
arrest [without warrant] of any person violating any town
ordinance, by riotous and disorderly conduct, or driving
or riding through the streets [when, in the judgment of
the President, or any two of said Commissioners, the delay
necessary to the issuing of a warrant will be dangerous
to the peace and quiet of the town, or the lives, limbs and
property of the citizens]; and when it shall appear that
the offender is intoxicated, so as to render it unsafe to
permit him to drive through the streets, they shall provide
for the removal of the horse and vehicle without the limits
of the town, or for the deposit thereof in some place of
Safety until the offender shall be sober.

SEC. 2. And be it further enacted, That this Act shall
take effect June 1, 1953.

Approved March 9, 1953.