464 CECIL COUNTY. [ART. 8.

moval of nuisances and the suppression of vice and immorality
within the corporate limits of said village, and shall have power
to levy an equal tax on the property within the said limits to
such an amount as may from time to time be deemed necessary
to accomplish the purposes aforesaid, which tax shall be collected
and paid to the president by the collector by them appointed,
who shall have the same power to distrain therefor as the
collector of public county taxes has to distrain for the same;

and the commissioners, or a majority of them, shall fix his term
of office, amount of bond and compensation.

173*. The said commissioners, or a majority of them, shall
have full power annually to appoint a bailiff, whose duty it shall
be to preserve the peace and good order of said village; and for
said purposes he is invested with the same power and authority
that any constable may now have under the laws of this State.

174*. Nothing herein contained shall be so construed as to
authorize the corporation hereby created to issue any device,
token, note, certificate or evidence of debt, to be used as a
currency; and the Legislature reserves the right to repeal this
charter when the same shall be deemed advisable.

ROADS.

175. No gate shall remain or be erected on any public road in
Cecil county, without an application by petition to the county
commissionera, who may authorize them to be erected, in their
discretion, but only in the first election district of the county.

176. If the county commissioners shall become satisfied that
any gate which they have authorized to be erected is unneces-
sary, they shall give sixty days' public notice to the person who
erected the same to remove it, after which time, if the gate is
not removed by said person, he shall forfeit and pay a sum of
twenty-five dollars for every gate not removed, and an addi-
tional fine of one dollar per day for every day said gate shall
remain after the expiration of the sixty days' notice.

177. All fines imposed under the preceding section shall be
recovered in the name of the State, before a justice of the peace
of the county, one-half to the informer and the other half to the
county commissioners, for the use of the county.