230 JOURNAL OF PROCEEDINGS [Feb. is,

The bill was read the second time.

Mr. Vickers, from the Committee on Judicial Proceedings,
to which was referred the bill entitled, an Act to repeal an
Act passed at January session, 1866, entitled, an Act to re-
peal the 43rd and 44th sections of article six, of the Public
Local Laws for Caroline county, relating to the Circuit
Court for said county, and to re-enact the same ;

Reported it with the following amendment:

Amend title, by striking out the words" and to re-enact
the same."

On motion by Mr. Davis, of Caroline,
The bill was laid over informally.

Mr. Vickers, from the Committee on Judicial Proceedings,
to which was referred the bill entitled, an Act to amend an
Act to incorporate the town of Newton, in Worcester county,
so as to strike out section eight of said Act and insert another
section in lieu thereof;

Reported it with the following amendment:
Strike out all after the enacting clause and insert—

Section 1. Be it enacted by the General Assembly of
Maryland, That section 8 of chapter 151, be, and the same is
hereby repealed, and the following section enacted in lieu
thereof:

Section 2. And be it enacted, That the commissioners of
the town of Newtown, Worcester county, may make such or-
dinances or by-laws for the regulation and good government
of said town and the inhabitants thereof, to restrain disorders
and disturbances, and prevent and remove all nuisances within
said town, as to them or a majority of them may seem proper,
not inconsistent with the laws of this State; and may enforce
the observance thereof under such penalties, fines and for-
feitures as they shall deem proper, not exceeding ten dollars
for any one offence, and all such fines, penalties and for-
feitures, may be recovered before a justice of the peace, by
warrant, judgment and commitment to the public prison of
Worcester county, in the same manner that commitments are
made for fines imposed by the circuit courts of this State, on
conviction for misdemeanor; but the said commissioners, or
a majority of them, shall have power at any time to remit or
release the said fines, penalties and forfeitures and costs, or
any part thereof, at their discretion; but any party who
shall be fined or subjected to any penalty or forfeiture, may
within five days after the same shall be imposed and judg-
ment recovered supercede or stay the same for thirty days by
giving ample personal security to the justice of the peace, and
the said fines, penalties and forfeitures, shall thereafter be