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The Maryland Code : Public General Laws and Public Local Laws, 1860
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AST. 21.] WASHINGTON COUNTY. 889

damaged, and assess the amount of advantage upon the property
of each person benefited thereby, and make a record thereof on
the books of the corporation, for the inspection of any person
interested.

45. Any person may appeal from the decision of the said
burgess and commissioners, in assessing such advantages, to the
Circuit Court for Washington county, within the time allowed
by law for appeals from judgments of justices of the peace, and
shall in said court be entitled to a trial by jury, as in other
cases.

46. The burgess and commissioners may collect the amounts
assessed against persons benefited by opening the streets, lanes
or alleys, in the same manner as taxes in said town, and the
amount, when collected, shall be applied to- the payment of the
damages and other expenses incurred in opening said streets,
lanes or alleys.

47. The said burgess and commissioners shall not levy any
general tax for the purpose of opening alleys.

48. They may take up and impound any swine running at
large in said town, whether they belong to the citizens of the
town or not, under such regulations as they may prescribe.

49. All fines and forfeitures, under the ordinances of said
corporation, shall be recoverable before the burgess, or before
a justice of the peace, as small debts.

50. The sheriff of Washington county shall receive and safe
keep in the jail of said county all persons who shall be com-
mitted, by the burgess or commissioners of said town, to said
jail for a breach or violation of any of the ordinances of said
corporation, according to the tenor of the commitment, and in
the same manner and under the same regulations as persons
committed for a violation of the laws of this State.

BULLET PLAYING.

51. No person shall play at bullets in the public streets of any
town in said county, or any of the public roads or highways
thereof.

 

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