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thereof, the collector shall report the fact to the corporation at
their monthly meeting in December, annually, and the mayor,
recorder and aldermen shall thereupon direct the real estate to
be sold by the collector for the payment of the said taxes, after
giving notice in the public newspapers in the same manner as
collectors of county and State taxes are required to do.

66. The property in the city of Annapolis belonging to the
corporation is exempt from any tax to be levied by Anne Arun-
del county.

67. No ordinance of the corporation shall impose a fine of more
than twenty dollars for any one offence or authorize a commit-
ment to jail for more than thirty days at one time.

68. All fines, penalties and forfeitures for violation of any
ordinance of the corporation may be recovered before the mayor,
recorder or some one of the aldermen, or a justice of the peace;

and the mayor, recorder, or aldermen, or justice, may commit
the offender until the fine is paid, or he be discharged in due
course of law.

69. If any ordinance shall give part of a fine or penalty to the
informer, or if such fine or penalty be discretionary, the judgment
of the officer imposing the fine or declaring the penalty shall
specify how much of such fine or penalty shall be to the use of
the corporation and how much to the informer.

70. No ordinance of the said corporation shall be binding on
persons who do not reside in the said city, until the same shall
have been published in some newspaper of the said city, unless
in case of wilful and intentional violation of said ordinance after
notice thereof.

71. The said corporation shall pass no ordinance that shall be
contrary to law.

72. The inhabitants of the said city, and all persons holding
property therein, shall be competent witnesses in all actions
arising under the charter or ordinances of said city, if exempt
from all other exceptions than that of interest as an inhabitant
of said city or member of said corporation.