The Democratic advocate. [volume] (Westminster, Md.) 1865-1972, 1892-04-23
DUBLIC LOCAL LAW.
Relating to the City of Westminster
in Regard to the Issuing of
Licenses.
CHAPTER 416.

AN ACT to repeal Section two hundred and
thirty-si of Article seven, of the Code OF
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 1890, and
to re-enact the same in an amended form.
SECTION l. 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 State
of Maryland, relating to the City of Westmin-
ster, in Carroll county, as amended by Sec
ton 236, Chapter 292 of the Acts of 1890, be
and the same is hereby repealed and re-
enacted so as to read as follows:
236. 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, pedling
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 timer
ant pedlers who may 60 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 q license
upon all fire insurance companies and agen-
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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 and
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 a
tax and impose license upon dogs, and to
provide for the killing of all worthless, dam
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, and
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 for any one Ii
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 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 Z, 1892.
FRANK BROWN, Governor.
MURRAY VANDIVER,
Speaker of the House of Delegates.
EDWARD LLOYD,
President of the Senate.
l herahv certify that the foregoing is true