follows: that all fines, penalties and forfeitures
under the ordinances of the corporation, shall bo
recovered before the Mayor, and the Mayor may
commit the offender for non-payment of such fines
and costs incurred to the county jail until paid,
and the costs in such proceedings shall be the
same as are chargeable by a Justice of the Peace
in criminal proceedings.

Sections to
be added.

Sec. 4. Be it enacted by the General Assembly of
Maryland, That the following sections be added
to Article twenty-first of the Code of Public Local
Laws, entitled, Washington county, and be
amended under the head of Hagerstown, in said
Article:

Taxable pro
perty.

Sec. 1. Be it enacted. That the taxable property
of said town for the purposes of the corporation
of Hagerstown, and as authorized, shall be the
same as that assessable and taxable for State and
county purposes, and that the Mayor and Council
may provide for taking the assessable property
from the assessment books of the county, with
power upon proper explanation to correct the same
as injustice it may be required.

Police Offi-.
cers to be ap-
pointed.

. Sec. 2. Be it enacted That the Mayor of Ha-
gerstown be and he is hereby authorized and em-
powered, by and with the advice and consent of
his Council, to appoint not exceeding four sober,
discreet and honest persons as police for said town,
and removable at pleasure, and that after revoking
such appointment he shall communicate the same
in writing to a called meeting of the Council, or
at the first regular meeting held after such ap-
pointments, and shall then confirm or reject such
appointment, and such person or persons so ap-
pointed shall be the acting police of said town
until rejected by said Council, and if confirmed
shall hold the said office until the expiration of
said time for which the Mayor making such ap-
pointment shall expire, unless sooner removed as
aforesaid by the Mayor, who shall have power to
fill vacancies occasioned by such removal or other-
wise, by and with the advice and consent of his
Council as aforesaid, and such police shall be gen-
eral conservators of the peace; they shall disperse
and suppress all disorderly assemblies, be present
at public meetings held in said town, to preserve