752
Salary of
Mayor, &c.
Violations of
ordinances.
Not eligible
for Mayor,
To enforce
ordinances.
May swear.
Pay over fine
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LAWS OF MARYLAND.
dollars worth of property in any one year, which tax
they may have collected as county and State taxes
are collected, or they may by ordinance adopt for
the benefit of the corporation; and the Mayor, by
virtue of his office, for municipal purposes and pre-
serving the peace, shall have all the powers of a
Justice of the Peace.
133. The Mayor shall receive an annual salary of
one hundred dollars, and each councilman twenty-
five dollars, to be paid by the corporation.
134. The Mayor and Council may provide by or-
dinance for punishing by fine and imprisonment in
the county jail of Washington county, for violations
of any of the ordinances of said town; but ho fine
shall exceed twenty dollars, and no imprisonment
exceed twenty days.
135. No Justice of the Peace shall be eligible to-
o-nice of Mayor of said town; if he shall be appointed
a Justice of the Peace or qualifies as such, he shall
then cease to be Mayor of said town.
136. The Justices of the Peace, having their offices
in Hagerstown, are hereby authorized to enforce the
ordinances of said town relating to crimes and pun-
ishments, by imposing fines, collect the same or im-
prison the offender for the non-payment of fines, or
as a punishment; that before any of said Justices
shall act, they shall prepare for themselves a separate
docket to be called the corporation docket, in which
a full and explicit record of every case brought
before them for a violation of the ordinances of said
town, the fine imposed or the imprisonment adjudged,
if any, and to whom said fine was paid, as well as the
costs and what amount, which docket the said Justices
shall respectively present to the Mayor and Council
at the end of every three months for inspection, to
ascertain the amount of fines collected; and the
Mayor or any of said Council may swear any of said
Justices, and interrogate them upon oath touching
any matter or thing relative to the contents of said
docket or what should have been entered thereon;
and the said justices shall, at the time of thus pre-
senting said dockets, pay all the fines by them col-
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