The Democratic advocate. [volume] (Westminster, Md.) 1865-1972, 1906-04-27
Debating TO THE TOWN OF
Ii MOUNT AIRY.
CHAPTER T3h


AN ACT to amend Chapter 341 of the Acts Of
the General lyof Maryland, passed at
the session of nineteen hundred, repeating
and re.enacting with amendments Chapter
81 of the Acts of 1894, entitled an "Act to
Incorporate the Town of Mount Airy, in
Carroll and Frederick Counties.
SECTION l. Be it enacted by the General
Assembly of Maryland, That the Mayor and
Council of Mount Airy shall have power by
ordinance TO regulate and provide for the
issuing of licenses or permits for all hauling,
peddling and vending of marketable conmodi-
ties, wares and merchandise of every deScrip-
ton upon the streets or highways of the Town,
and to issue licenses or permits to all llnerant
peddlers who may go from house to house TO
vend or sell any wares or merchandise; to
regulate and provide for the issuing ofhcenses
to all travelling persons who dispense medi-
cines or medical advice and secret or patented
inventions or remedies, and shall have the
power to fix the price or fees for such licenses,
respectively, and to provide for the collection
of the same.
SECTION 2. And be it enacted, That said
Mayor and Council of Mount Airy shall also
have power, by ordinance, to establish night
watches and patrols and erect and maintain
lamps to light the streets, roads and alleys of
said Town; TO restrain and prohibit gaming, to
prevent drunkenness, brawling and fighting,
and to suppress and remove all nuisances
affecting or liable to affect the peace, qnite or
health of the Town.
SECTION 3. Aud be it enacted, That said
Mayor and Council shall also have power by
ordinance to make reasonable regulations in
regard to buildings, to be erected in said Town
and grant building permits for the same, to
establish fire districts in said Town and regu
late the kind of materials used in the erection
of buildings within such districts with special
reference to the prevention and suppression
of fires: to regulate the burning of brush,
boxes, shavings and other refuse matter in
the streets, alleys, yards and gardens OF said
Town, for the purpose OF preventing fires; to
establish aud regulate Station house or
Lookup for the temporary confinement: of the
vioators of the laws and ordinances OF the
| Town, and for the suppression OF vagraney.
SECTION 6. And be it enacted, That for
the purpose of carrying out the powers granted
by this Act, and to preserve the cleanliness,
health, peace and good order of said Town
and the community, the said Mayor and
Council may impose such fines. not exceeding
twenty dollars in any one case, for each vio
lutiou Of any ordinance or any section of any
! ordinance passed under the provisions of this
! Act OF by authority thereof, aud in default of
the payment of any fine imposed or the costs
| incurred IN connection Herewith, they may
provide for the Imprisonment of the offender
for period not exceeding thirty days or until
the fine and costs are paid
SECTION !. And be it enacted. That Sec
lion W, OF said Chapter 341 of The Acts of
nineteen hundred, be and the same is hereby
repealed and re enacted with al amendment
so as TO read as follows
Section W.-The Mayor and Council shall
annually levy such n tax upon all asses
sable property within the coporate limits,
except upon such real estate AS is used ex
clusJyely for farming purposes as may be
necessary for municipal purposes, not to eN-
coed Ia any one year fifty cents on the one
hundred dollars, in addition to the tax re.
qaired 70 be levied for the payment of the
interest on the bonds issued by the Mayor aud
Council to the amount ot four thousand dol
lars, under the authority Of Chapter - of the
Acts OF General Assembly Of Maryland, of the
year 1895, and for the creation of sinking
fund tor the payment OF said bonds at matur
~, aud all taxes levied on property assessed
As provided by this Act shall be lien on said
I pruperiy--rral and personal, until paid, and
interest shall be chArgeaole on said taxes after
thirty DAYS from abe time when such taxes are
due aud payable.
SECTION 5 Aud be it enacted. That this
Act shall take effect from the date ct its
passage.
Approved April 5. 1906
HON. EDWIN WAKEFIELD,
Governor.
HON. JOSEPH Il. SETH,
President Of the Senate.
HON. CARVILLE ID. BENSON,
Speaker OF the House Of Delegates.
Otfice Of the Secretary Of the Senate:
hereby certify, That the atoregojng is a
true copy OF an Act Of the General Assembly
ef Maryland. passed at the January Session,
1906 X. MOSS,
apr 20 81 Secretary OF the Senate.