The Democratic advocate. [volume] (Westminster, Md.) 1865-1972, 1900-05-12
LOCAL LAW.
Relating to Taneytown.
CHAPTER l4h

CHAPTER 145.
AN ACT TO REPEAL THE ONE HUN.
DRIED AND FIFTY FOURTH SECTION
OF ARTICLE SEVEN OF THE CODE
OF PUBLIC LOCAL LAWS OF THE
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 aud Ninety -four, be and
the same is hereby repealed and re-enacted
so as to read as follows.
| l54. 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 OF said 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-
| plosive 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 itinerant 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, amusemeuts, en-
tertainments or exhibitions, to restrain dis
orders, disturbances and immoralities, TO
regulate, license and tax restaurants and
saloons and other places where malt spiritn-
| 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 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 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 OF
such laws and ordinances by reasonable fines
and penalties, not exceeding fifty dollars in
any one case, as may appear right TO 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 fora 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 Act shall take effect from the
date of its passage.
| Approved March 10Th, 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;
l hereby certify, That the aforegoing is a
true copy of an Act of the General Assembly
of Maryland, passed at the January Session,
1900. B. l.. SMITH,
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