The Democratic advocate. [volume] (Westminster, Md.) 1865-1972, 1900-05-19
LOCAL Law.
Relating to Taneytown.
CHAPTER l45.

CHAPTER AS,
AN ACT TO REPEAL THE ONE HIN
DRIED AND FIFTY FOURTH SECTfoM
OF ARTICLE SEVEN OF THE COM
OF PUBLIC LOCAL LAWS OF TIE
STATE OF MARYLAND, RELATIVE
TO THE TOWN OF TANEYTOWN- IN
CA RROLL COUNTY, AS AMENDED
BY SECTION ONE HUNDRED AM
FIFTY -FOUR, CHAPTER FIVE FIVE HIN nN1
DRIED AND EIGHTY -FOUR OF TuE
ACTS OF EIGHTEEN HUNDRED Avn
NINETY-F0UR AND TO RE.ENAcT
THE SAME IN AN AMENDED FORM
Section /. Be it enacted by the Ganor.t
Assembly of Maryland, That Section Oaa
Hundred and Fifty four of Article seven oe
the Code of Public Local Laws of the Stat
of Maryland. relating to the town of Tanev.
town, in Carroll County, as amended by Ser.
ton One Hundred and Fifty four, Chapter
Five Hundred and Eighty -four of the Act
of Eighteen Hundred aud Ninety-four, be and
the same is hereby repealed and re-enactad
SO as to read as follows.
l54 A majority of the Commissioners
shall have power to enact and pass all sucb
laws and ordinances, not inconsistent with the
laws of this State or of the County, or tb;s
SUBJ title 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, 10 open and Is.
tablish, grade, curb, pave, and repair spch
roads, streets, lanes and alleys as have been
or may be laid out for that purpose, to pre.
vent and remove nusances to provide against
fires, and the extinguIshment of the same. In
regulate fire companies, to provide for the
safety of houses, buildings and chimneys from
fire, to prevent and regulate the use of ex
plosive materials, to 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.
mits TO all itinerant peddlers who may go from
house to house to vend or sell any goods
wares, or merchandise, to impose a 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-.
tertainments or exhibitions, to restrain dis.
orders, disturbances and immoralites, to
regulate, license and lax restaurants and
saloons and other places where malt, spiritu.
GUS, vinous or fermented liquors are sold, 10
regulate, license and tax all hackney car
riages, omnibusses or other vehicles used in
said town for the carriage of passengers, to
regulate aud 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,
aud to regulate and prevent the going al 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 and dispose of the same or any
part thereof, to build or secure 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 oil
such laws and ordinances by reasonable fms
and penalties, not exceeding fifty dollars in
any one case, as may appear right 10 them,
and they may recover said fines and penalties
by an action of debt. and in addition thereto
they may provide for the Imprisonment of the
offender or offenders for a 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 a 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 Act shall take effect from the
date of its passage.
Approved, March 29th, 1900.
JOHN WALTER SMITH,
Governor.
JOHN HUBNER,
President of the Senate.
LLOYD WILKINSON,
Speaker of the House of Delegates.
Office of the Chief Clerk House of Delegates:
hereby certify, That the aforegoing is
true copy of an Act of the General Assembly
of Maryland, passed at the January Session,
1900 B. L. SMITH,
Chief Clerk of the House of Delegates
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