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FUNKSTOWN

punishment of all persons who shall keep, authorize or
suffer to be kept, or knowingly rent for such purposes,
any such house or houses of ill-fame; to regulate and
provide for the issuing of licenses or permits for all
hawking, peddling and transient vending of wares,
merchandise of every description (except by sample)
within the town limits, except all such articles of food
and provisions, in the hands of the producer, or articles
in the hands of the manufacturer; to regulate and/or
license public dances and/or other amusements; for the
issuing of licenses to all traveling persons who dispense
medicines or medical advice; and shall also have power to
demand license from all itinerant players and showmen
exhibiting within said town, but shall not accept tickets
to any such entertainments as payment therefor; shall
also have power to regulate, restrain or prohibit any
theatrical or other public exhibition on the streets or
indoors within said town, when the same shall be deemed
demoralizing or otherwise obnoxious or objectionable; to
license saloons, breweries and other places where malt,
spirituous, vinous or fermented liquors are sold;
provided, that no greater sum than thirty dollars be
charged for any one license for any of the foregoing
objects.

243. STREETS; BRIDGES; STREET LIGHTS.

The MAYOR AND COUNCIL [Burgess and Commissioners]
may level, grade and macadamize the streets and alleys,
or any of them, in whole or in part, and cause bridges or
culverts to be made over the water—courses or hollows in
said streets or alleys and crossing places, of stone or
otherwise, at convenient places over the same; they shall
have exclusive jurisdiction over the streets and alleys
in said town, to keep the same in repair and in a cleanly
condition at all times; may provide a judicious system
for lighting the same, and make all or any changes or
improvements thereon as shall inure to the public
convenience and benefit within the means authorized and
prescribed by the charter.

244. LIMITATION OF INDEBTEDNESS.

The MAYOR AND COUNCIL [Burgess and commissioners]
shall not contract any debt or liability, unless they
shall have beforehand, by levy of taxes or other lawful
methods, provided for the payment thereof; and in no case
shall they allow the aggregate amount of the liabilities
or indebtedness of said corporation to exceed its cash
assets more than Two Thousand Five Hundred Dollars.

245. ORDINANCES TO BE IN FORCE.

All ordinances heretofore passed by the MAYOR AND