The Republican. [volume] (Oakland, Md.) 1877-current, 1931-05-28
PUBLIC LOCAL LAWS

cupant of premises to keep the side
walks in front of the same free from
snow and other distractions and pre-
scribe hours for cleaning same; to
regulate and prevent the throwing or
depositing of sweepings, dust or
ashes, offal or dirt, garbage, paper,
hand-bills, dirty liquids or any other
materials in any street, alley or pub
lie place; to regulate and prevent the
use of streets, sidewalks and public
places for signs, sign posts, awnings,
awning posts, poles, horse troughs,
steps, ratings, entrances, racks, post
ing 'hand-bills and advertisements and
display of goods, wares and merchan-
disc; to cause the streets, lanes and
alleys to be sidewalked, paved, grad
ed, curbed, repaired, repaved, regrad-
ed, recurbed, grained or severed, or
to close streets or parts of streets,
lanes or alleys; to assess and tax the
expenses of paving, grading, curbing,
or repairing, regarding, repaving or
recurring the sidewalks or streets of
said town, in whole or in part, upon
the respective owners of property
fronting thereon, that the expense and
cost of paving, grading, curbing or re-
pairing regarding, repaving or re-
curbing or otherwise improving the
sidewalks or streets in said town, in
Cured by the Council under it's ordi-
nances may be charged and recovered
by said Council in the name of the
corporation from the owners of the
property fronting thereon, by suit or
action at law against the owner or
owners thereof, as other debts are
collected, and the expense of the same
shall be lien upon the property
chargeable Herewith; to regulate and
license the use of coaches, hacks,
drays, automobiles and all other We
hicles for the transportation of pas
sengers, freight or other articles to
or from points within said town for
hire or pay; to regulate, license, tax,
restrain or prohibit theatrical and all
other exhibitions, shows or entertain
ments for which money is demanded
or received; provided, that lectures on
scientific, historic, benevolent, artis-
tic, religious or literary subjects, and
apparatus for the education of the
same and specimens of fine art, shall
not be deemed to be within this pro-
vision; to regulate the sale of all
kinds of property at auction in the
streets, stores. shops or elsewhere in
the town, and to license auctioneers
and all vendors of property on the
streets or squares or other places in
said town; to license, tax, regulate,
suppress and prohibit hawkers and
itinerant dealers, peddlers and pawn
brokers and to revoke such license at
pleasure; to license, tax and regulate
branch stores and all other concerns
established in said town for temper
airy business only.
214. The said Mayor and Council
may from time to time cause an as
sessment to be made of all the prop
erty liable to State and county taxes
within the corporate limits of said
town of Grantsville, and to levy a tax
thereon not exceeding one dollar on
the one hundred dollars in each year,
and said property shall be assessed
at it's actual cash value and the said
Mayor and Council may by ordinance
provide methods and means for the
collection of said taxes and fer the
enforcement of the payment thereof.
Sec. 2. And be it further enacted,
That this Act is hereby declared to be
an emergency law and necessary for
the immediate preservation of the
public health and safety, and being
passed upon yea and nay vote, sup
ported by three-fifths of all the men,
bers elected to each of the two Houses
Of the General Assembly, the same
shall take effect from the date of it's
passage.
Approved April II, 1881.