584 FREDERICK COUNTY. [ART. 11.

229. The burgess shall receive and disburse all moneys cot.
lected under any ordinance or by-laws of the corporation, and
shall give bond to the commissioners with such security as they
shall require. He shall report annually to the commisBioners the
general state of the town, with an account of all money received
and expended, with the proper vouchers, to be published in the
most public places in the town.

230. All fines, forfeitures and penalties under the ordinances
of the corporation, shall be recoverable before the burgess or
before any justice of the peace for Frederick county, in the same
manner as small debts; and any person refusing to pay such
fines or forfeitures shall be committed to the jail of Frederick
county, until payment or discharge in due course of law, and the
corporation shall be liable for the jail fees.

231. The burgess may commit any vagabond, who may be
found wandering about the streets of said town, to the alma-
house of Frederick county.

232. Any free white person may take up and impound any
geese or awine found, going at large in. Middletown, and the per-
son so taking up the same, shall give four days' notice, by adver-
tisements set up at four of the most public places in said town,
describing the swine or geese so taken up; and that the same
-will be sold, in the most public square in the town, at public
sale, for cash, one-half of the purchase money to go to the
owner, and the other half to the person taking them up, and if
no owner shall claim the said half on the day of sale, the same
shall be paid to the trustees of the Middletown school, to be
appropriated to the use of the school, unless demanded by the
owner within one month.

233. «If the owner of the geese or swine, so impounded, can
prove to the satisfaction of any justice of the peace in said town,
that the said geese or swine did not go at large from negligence
or want of care on his part, and that due diligence was used to
prevent it, the said owner shall have return of the said property,
on paying the expenses of keeping and impounding the same.

NAVIGATION.

234. All fish dams or other devices for catching fish and all
other erections in the Monocacy River below Kemp's lately