The Democratic advocate. [volume] (Westminster, Md.) 1865-1972, 1892-04-16
DUBL1c LOCAL LAW.
Relating to the City of Westminster
in Regard to the Issuing OF
Licenses.
CHAPTER 4l6.

CHAPTER 4l6.
AN ACT to repeal Section two hundred ana
thirty.six of Article seven, of the Code oil
Public Local Laws of the State OF Mary
land, relating to the City OF Westminster
in Carroll county, as amended by Section
236, Chapter 292 of the Acts OF 1881, ana
to re.enact the same in an amended iorh'
SECTION /. Be it enacted by the General
Assembly of Maryland, That Section two
hundred and thirty-six of Article seven, OF
the Code of Public Local Laws OF the otate
w sIe MorvIand relating to the City of Westmin
ster, in Carroll county, as amended by sec
tion 236, Chapter 292 of the Acts OF 1890, be
and the same is hereby repealed and re-
enacted so as to read as follows:
ORG The Mayor and Common Council OF
Westminster shall have full power and au-
! thority to regulate and provide for the issuing
of licenses or permits for all hawking, pedllng
and vending of goods, wares and merchandise
of every description upon the streets, lanes,
alleys or highways ofthe City OF Westminster,
and to issue licenses or permits to all itiner-
ant nedlers who may go from house to house
to vend or sell any goods, wares or merchan'
disc, to issue license to any and all persons
entering into or beginning any transient bus
mess in said City, for the sale of any goods,
wares or merchandise; to impose license
| upon all fire insurance companies and agen-
| cies located in or doing business in said City;
to regulate and provide for the issuing OF IL
censes to all travelling persons who dispense
medicines or medical advice; to regulate,
| license and tax restaurants and saloons ana
other places where malt, spirituous, vinous or
fermented liquors are sold: to regulate, license
| and tax all hackney carriages, omnibusses or
other vehicles used in said City for the car
rage of passengers; all carriages for private
use, all vehicles used for the carriage, trans
portation or delivery of freight or merchan-
| disc, and all carts and other vehicles which
ply for hire; to suppress vagrancy, TO levy
tax and impose license upon dogs, and to
provide for the killing of all worthless, dan
gerous or annoying dogs, and of all dogs not
properly licensed; and to regulate or prevent
the going at large in the City limits OF horses,
cattle, sheep, goats, swine, geese, dogs, or any
other brute, beast or fowl, and they may pass
all ordinances necessary from time to time to
carry out and enforce the foregoing provisions,
and to enforce the observance of such ordi-
nances by reasonable fines and penalties, not
exceeding fifty dollars in any one case, as may
appear to them right, and they may recover
| said fine or penalty by an action OF debt, ano
in addition thereto they may provide for the
Imprisonment of the offender for period not
exceeding thirty days, or until the fine be
paid, provided, that no greater sum than one
hundred dollars be charged Tor any one IL
cense, and instead of the aforesaid penalties,
it shall be lawful, in case of the conviction
of any person for vagrancy, to sentence such
persons to hard work for a period not ex-
ceeding ten days. >,
Section 2. And be it enacted, That all
laws inconsistent with, or repugnant to the
provisions of this Act, be and they are hereby
repealed to the extent of such inconsistency,
and this Act shall take effect from the date OF
its passage.
Approved April I, 1892.
FRANK BROWN, Governor. d.
MURRAY VANDIVER,
Speaker of the House of Delegates.
EDWARD LLOYD,
President of the Senate.
| hereby certify that the foregoing is a true
copy of an Act of the General Assembly OF
Maryland, passed January Session, 1892.
CARTON SHAFER,
Chief Clerk of the House of Delegates.
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