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mitted until the amount of said recognizance is fully paid and
satisfied, or may order such person or persons to be discharged
upon payment of such lesser sum as it shall think proper, not
less than the costs accrued in said case at the time of passing the
order.

BAILIFFS AND CRIEB TO CIRCUIT COURT, CRIMINAL COURT AND

COURT or COMMON PLEAS, AND SUPERIOR COURT.

134. The clerks of the Circuit Court, the Criminal Court, the
Court of Common Pleas and the Superior Court of Baltimore
city, shall severally, at the end of every month, certify to the
mayor and register of the city the amount due the several bailiffs •
and criers of their respective courts, and the mayor and register
shall pay them accordingly.

135.* The judge of the Superior Court may allow and direct
to be taxed to the crier of said court, while sitting as a court
of equity, such a per diem as said judge may deem proper and
reasonable.

BRIDGES AND HIGHWAYS.

186. The mayor and city council may lay and collect a direct
tax, not exceeding fifty cents in the hundred dollars, ou the as-
sessed value of all lands and houses in said city, lying without
the limits of direct taxation and within the exterior limits of
said city, and may enforce the payment thereof as other direct
taxes, and the tenants in possession shall be liable to the pay-
ment of said tax imposed upon the premises occupied by them,
without its operating, however, to alter the nature of contracts
between landlords and tenants.

137. The taxes thus levied, after deducting the expenses of col-
lection, shall be annually applied in making and repairing such
of the public highways and bridges within the limits whereon
the same is levied as they may deem most important, and they
may provide by ordinance for the collection and expenditure
thereof.

CARRIAGES, CARTS, DRAYS, WAGONS, &o.

138. The mayor and city council have power to license and
regulate hackney coaches, or other carriages kept 'for hire and
employed within the city, and also draymen, wagoners, carters,
porters and watermen, residing and employed within the said