386 CAROLINE COUNTY. [ART. 6.

dering about the streets at night or frequenting the houses of
other persons in said village, without the consent of their
masters or owners.

110. All taxes, fines and forfeitures imposed by the commis-
sioners of said village shall be collected by their bailiff in the
same manner and by the same means as county taxes are col-
lected by the collectors thereof, and shall be applied by the com-
missioners in regulating and improving the streets and village
as the commissioners may direct.

111. The commissioners may allow their clerk and bailiff such
reasonable compensation as they may deem proper.

112. The bailiff of said village may impound any geese or
swine running at large in said village belonging to any person
residing in Caroline county, and retain the same until the owner
shall pay forty cents for every hog or half dozen geese, and a
proportionate sum for every goose so impounded, one-half to the
use of the bailiff and the other half to the commissioners; and if
the owner of such swine or geese shall not, within three days
after notice of their seizure, pay said sum to the bailiff, the said
hogs or geese shall be forfeited; and the bailiff may sell the
same after five days' notice, at public sale in said village, be-
tween the hours of nine and twelve o'clock, and apply the pro-
ceeds as before directed-

113. If any person shall by force take any swine or geese out
of the possession of any person who has impounded them under
the preceding section, without paying the sums therein men-
tioned, he shall forfeit the sum of twenty-five dollars.

HiLLSBOBOUGH.

114. The citizens of the town of Hillsborough, in Caroline
county, are a body corporate by the name of " The President
and Commissioners of the town of Hillsborough," and by that
name may sue and be sued, and may have and use a common
seal.

115. The metes and bounds of the town of Hillsborongh shall
extend from the foot of Tuckahoe bridge along the meanderings
of the creek until it intersects with Tillotson, the late Keen pro-
perty lines, thence with the lines of said property until it inter-.