The Democratic advocate. [volume] (Westminster, Md.) 1865-1972, 1900-05-05
LOCAL LAW.
Relating to Taneytown.
CHAPTER l45.

OnaT l. EN- 40.
AN ACT TO REPEAL THE ONE HUN.
DRIED AND FIFTY FOURTH SECTION
OF ARTICLE SEVEN OF THE CODE
STATE OF MARYLAND, RELATING
| TO THE TOWN OF TANEYTOWN, IN
CARROLL COUNTY, AS AMENDED
| BY SECTION ONE HUNDRED AND
FIFTY -FOUR, CHAPTER FIVE HUN.
DRIED AND EIGHTY -FOUR OF THE
| ACTS OF EIGHTEEN HUNDRED AND
| NINETY-FOUR AND TO RE-ENACT
THE SAME IN AN AMENDED FORM.
Section l. Be it enacted by the General
Assembly of Maryland, That Section One
Hundred and Fifty -four of Article seven of
the Code of Public Local Laws of the State
of Maryland. relating to the town of fancy
town, in Carroll County, as amended by Sec
ton One Hundred and Fifty four, Chapter
Five Hundred and Eighty -four of the Acts
of Eighteen Hundred and Ninety -four, be and
the same is hereby repealed and enacted
so as to read as follows.
I54. A majority of the Commissioners
| shall have power to enact and pass all such
laws and ordinances, not inconsistent with the
| laws of this State or of the County. or this
subtitle of this article, as they may deem wise
and expedient for the comfort, health, order,
prosperity, peace and convenience ofsaid town
| and the inhabitants thereof, TO open and es-
tablish, grade, curb, pave, and repair such
roads, streets, lanes and alleys as have been
or may be laid out for that purpose, to pre-
vent and remove nuisances, to provide against
| fires, and the extingulshment of the same, to
regulate fire companies, to provide for the
| safety of houses, buildings and chimneys from
| fire, to prevent and regulate the use of ex-
| plosiye materials, 10 regulate party walls and
| division fences, to regulate and provide for
the issuing of licenses or permits for all hawk
| ing peddling and vending of goods, wares and
merchandise of every description upon the
streets lanes alleys or highways of said town
of Taneytown, and to issue licenses or per-
miis to all ilinerant pedders who may go from
house to house to vend or sell any goods,
wares, or merchandise, to impose license
| upon all fire insurance company or companies
and agencies located in or doing business in
said town of Taneytown, to issue license to
any and all persons entering into or beginning
| any transient business in said town for the
| sale of any goods, wares or merchandise, to
regulate and provide for the issuing of license
to all travelling persons who dispense medi-
cines or medical advice, to regulate, license
| and tax all Public shows, amusements, en-
tertanments or exhibitions, to restrain dis
orders, disturbances and immoralities, to
regulate, license and tax restaurants and
saloons aud other places where malt, spiritu-
Gus, vinous or fermented liquors are sold, TO
regulate, license and tax all hackney car
riages, omnibusses or other vehicles used in
said town for the carriage of passengers, to
regulate and license all carriages for private
use, all vehicles used for the carriage, trans.
portation or delivery of freight or merchan-
disc, and all carts or other vehicles which ply
| for hire, to suppress vagrancy, to levy tax
and impose license upon dogs and bitches,
and TO provide for the killing of all worthless,
dangerous or annoying dogs and bitches, and
of all dogs and bitches not properly licensed,
and to regulate and prevent the going at large
within the limits of said town of horses, cat
| tie, sheep, goats, swine, geese, dogs or any
other brute, beasts or fowl, to have power and
| authority to purchase and hold real, personal
and mixed property, for the use and benefit
of said corporation and the citizens thereof
and to convey aud dispose of the same or any
| part thereof, to build or secure a place OF
confinement for persons charged or convicted
| of violating the laws and ordinances of said
| Corporation of Taneytown, and they may pass
all laws and ordinances necessary from time
| to time to carry out and enforce The foregoing
provisions, and to enforce the observance OF
such laws and ordinances by reasonable fines
aud penalties, not exceeding fifty dollars in
any one case, as may appear right TO them,
/ anu tue1 may EtCONeT Sdiu HHtS anu pCudtiCo
| by an action of debt, and in addition thereto
they may provide for the Imprisonment of the
offender or offenders for period not exceed
ing thirty days or until the fine be paid, pro.
vided, that no greater sun than one hundred
dollars be charged for any one license, and
instead of the aforesaid penalties it shall be
lawful, in case of the conviction of any person
for vagrancy to sentence such person to hard
work for period not exceeding ten days.
Section 2. And be it enacted, That all
laws inconsistent with or repugnant to the
provisions of this Act be and the same are
hereby repealed to the extent of such incon-
sistency and this Ac6 shall take effect from the
date of its passage.
Approved, March Goth, 1900.
JOHN WALTER SMITH,
Governor.
JOHN HUBNER,
President of the Senate.
TIOYn WI KINSON