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LAWS OF MARYLAND.

Levy annually

authorized and empowered to levy annually such
taxes upon the assessable property within said cor-
poration as may seem to them necessary; provided,
that the amount of taxation for any one year shall
not exceed thirty cents in the one hundred dollars,

How collected

which tax may he collected by a collector ap-
pointed by the Commissioners, and in case of ne-
glect or failure to pay such taxes, they shall be
collected in the mode prescribed for the collection
ot county taxes.

Footways.

Sec. 8 And be it enacted, That the Commis-
sioners of said village are hereby authorized to
direct any or all of the footways within said vil-
lage to be laid off, levelled and paved with such
material as may to a majority of them seem best,
and one-fourth of the expenses of such work and
improvement shall be borne by the owner or own-
ers of the property before which the same shall he

Expense, how
borne.

directed to be made, and upon neglect or refusal
to pay the amount so assessed and expended, the
Commissioners may recover the same of said owner
or owners in such mariner as county taxes may be
collected and recovered.

Prison.

Sec. 9. And be it enacted, That the Commis-
sioners of said village are authorized to procure a
house for the incarceration of all persons who may
be committed thereto by the proper authorities for
the violation of any ordinance of said corporation.

In force.

Sec. 10. And be it enacted, That this Act shall
take effect on and after the day of its passage.

Approved April 4, 1870.