ART. 15.] MONTGOMERY COUNTY. 703

72*. The bailiff shall make all collections required of him, and
pay the same to the clerk within six months from the time the
tax list is placed in his hands.

73*. The bailiff shall attend the meetings of the commissioners
and perform such duties as they shall direct, and he shall pre-
vent disorderly or irregular meetings of'negroes or other dis-
orderly persons; he shall correct in moderation all negroes found
strolling about the streets, or remaining at the houses of free
negroes, after ten o'clock at night in the summer, and nine
o'clock at night in the winter, without a pass from their owner
or employer.

74*. The president shall preside at all meetings of the com-
missioners, and shall have all the powers of a justice of the
peace in criminal cases, where the commissioners are a party,
and shall receive the same fees as a justice of the peace ia
allowed for similar cases; and an appeal from his judgment,
where the demand exceeds five dollars, may be taken to the
Circuit Court for the county, which shall hear and determine the
matter as upon appeals from a justice of the peace.

75*. The bailiff shall have the same fees for making distresses
for taxes as are allowed county collectors, and for making
arrests or serving process for violation of any ordinance of the
corporation, the same as are allowed constables for similar
services; and where the bailiff wilfully faila to discharge any
duty of his office, he may be fined at the discretion of the presi-
dent, not exceeding ten dollars for any one offence.

76*. All 'fines, penalties and forfeitures imposed by this
charter, or by any ordinance of the commissioners, may be col-
lected in the name of the commissioners, before the president, or
a justice of the peace, similar to the mode of collecting small
debts, and the delinquent shall stand committed to the county
jail until the same is paid with costs.

77*. The commissioners shall not expend, nor contract to
expend, in any one year, more money than the amount receivable
from taxes and other sources for that year.

78*. The public buildings and other county property in said
town shall not be subject to taxation, and shall continue to the
uses to which the same are now allotted; the judges of the seve-