JOHN WALTER SMITH, ESQ., GOVERNOR.
VIOLATIONS OF ORDINANCES — HOW PUNISHED.

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Sec. 195. Said Mayor and Common Council may establish
and maintain a town prison, and may confine therein all
persons convicted of violations of their ordinances in default
of the payment of the fines imposed for such violations, or
may, at their option, confine such person in the county jail
at the expense of said town, or they may require such person
in default in the payment of fines to work out such fines and
costs upon the streets or other improvements of said town,
such persons to be allowed as a credit on such fines and costs
the same wages as are paid other employees of said city for
the same work.

FINES, ETC., How RECOVERED.

Penalty for
violation of
ordinances.

Sec. 195A. All fines, penalties and forfeitures imposed by
this charter, or for the violation of any ordinance of said town,
shall be recoverable in the name of the Mayor and Common
Council of Union Bridge before such justice of the peace of
the State of Maryland residing in said town, as1 may be elected
as police magistrate for said town by said Mayor and Com-
mon Council and no other as small debts, and shall be paid to
the Mayor and Common Council for the use of said town.

POWER TO EXEMPT MANUFACTURING ENTERPRISES FROM
TAXATION.

Fines, etc.
How
recovered.

Sec. 196. Said Mayor and Common Council shall have the
power to make contracts exempting from city taxation the
real and personal property or capital stock of any manu-
facturing company or enterprise desiring to locate in said town,
and as an inducement to the same to locate therein; provided,
that such contract to exempt the same shall be limited as to
time, and shall not exceed ten years.

Sec. 196A. The Mayor of the town, by virtue of his office
for municipal purposes and preserving the peace, shall have
all the powers of a justice of the peace.

Tax
exemptions.

Sec. 197. Whenever any person owning land adjacent to the
corporate limits of the town shall desire that said limits be so
extended as to embrace his lands, he shall express the same
to the Mayor and Common Council to the said town by petition,
and if any of the said land is laid off in lots, streets and alleys,
a majority of those persons owning said lots, bounding on one
or more streets, may express by petition to the Mayor and
Common Council as aforesaid their desire to have said lots,
streets and alleys embraced in the corporate limits of the town.

Petition to
extend limits
of the town.