The Democratic advocate. [volume] (Westminster, Md.) 1865-1972, 1906-05-04
Debating TO THE TOWN OF
Ii MOUNT AIRY.
CHAPTER 49,

CHAPTER 1856.
| AN ACT to amend Chapter "a of the Acts OF
the General Assent lyof Maryland, passed at
| the session of nineteen hundred, repeating
and enacting with amendments Chapter
81 of the Acts of 1894, entitled an 'Act to
Incorporate the Town of Mount Airy, in
Carroll aud 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 commodi-
ties, wares and merchandise of every descrip-
ton upon the streets or highways of the Town,
| and to issue licenses or permis1o all innerant
| peddlers who may go from house to house TO
| vend or sell any wares or merchandise; to
regulate and provide for the issuing of licenses
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 =. 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, Drawing and fighting,
| and to suppress and remove all nuisances
affecting or liable to affect the peace, quite or
| health of the Town.
! SECTION 3. And 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-
| 4 l.. a.,
J 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
J the streets, alleys, yards and gardens of said
| Town, for the purpose of preventing fires; TO
| establish and regulate a Station house or
/ Lookup for the temporary confinement of the
violators of the laws and ordinances OF the
/ Town, and for the suppression OF vagrancy.
| SECTION 8. And be it enacted. That for
| the purpose of carrying ont the powers granted
4 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
| iation OF any ordinance or any section of any
ordinance passed under the provisions of this
/ Act or by authority thereof aud in default Of
the payment of any iue imposed or the costs
4. 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 :. Aud be it enacted. That Sec
| ton W, OF said Chapter 34l of the Acts of
/ nineteen hundred, be and the same is hereby
1 repealed and reenGcted with an amendment
so as to read as follows:
SECTION N.-Ihe Mayor and Council shall
annually levy such a tax upon all asses
sable property within the cooperate limits,
/ except upon such real estate as is used ex-
! cIusivey for farming purposes as may be
[ necessary for municipal purposes, not to ex-
I coed IN any one year fifty cents on the one
hundred dollars, in addition to the tax re-
( quired to be levied for the payment of the
interest on the bonds issued by the Mayor and
/ Council to the amount Of four thousand dol
/ lars. under the authority Of Chapter y Of the
! Acts OF General Assembly OF Maryland, Of the
/ wear 1896, and for the creation of a sinking
Z fiad 'pv the payment Of said bonds at maiuri
I ~. and all taxes levied on property assessed
/ IS provided by this Act shall be lien on said
{ property aud personal, until paid, and
interest shall be chargeable on said taxes after
l thirty days from he tune when such taxes are
/ due aud payable.
/ SECTION :. Aud be Is enacted. That this
I Act shall take effect from the date OF its
/ passage.
Approved April s. 1906.
! HON. EDWIN WAKEFIELD,
Governor.
HON. JOSEPH b. SETH,