PHILLIPS LEE GOLDSBOROUGH, ESQ., GOVERNOR.
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or disturbing the quiet and order thereof or violating any of
the ordinances made and passed by the Town Commissioners
for securing the safety of the property or person of the inhab-
itants of the town; and upon complaint being made under oath
before any such justice of peace of the violation of any ordi-
nance of the Town of La Plata he shall forthwith issue process
against the offender in the name of the Town Commissioners of
La Plata to recover the fine or penalty imposed for the violation
of such ordinance, and may hear and determine the matter as
in other cases arising under the laws of this State in which he
has jurisdiction, and shall receive the same fees therefor.
114. All fines and penalties, as well as all taxes collected
under the provisions of this act, shall be collected in the name
of and for the use of the Town Commissioners of La Plata, who
shall expend the same as in their judgment they may deem best
for the purposes of the corporation.
115. .The County Commissioners of Charles County, jus-
tices of the peace, sheriff, constables and all other county and
State officers shall have, hold and exercise their respective offices
in the jurisdiction of the Town of La Plata; provided, that such
taxes for public or county road purposes as are levied by the
County Commissioners of Charles County upon the inhabitants
or the property in the Town of La Plata shall be expended on
the streets and roads within the corporate limits of said town,
under such rules and regulations as may be agreed upon or
adopted by and between said County Commissioners and the
Town Commissioners of La Plata.
116. The Town Commissioners of La Plata shall have the
same powers that are now exercised, or that may be exercised,
at any time by the State Board of Health of Maryland,
restricted, however, to the limits of said Town of La Plata.
116A. The commissioners of said town may purchase and
hold any property, real, personal or mixed, that may be nec-
essary for municipal purposes and dispose of the same for the
benefit of said town.
116B. They shall have power to establish building lines in
all the streets and highways in said town, or which shall here-
after be opened therefor, and to compel all .persons erecting
buildings' in said town to conform thereto, under such penalties
as they may prescribe by ordinance, but no building shall here-
after be erected for the purpose of a stable or privy or for a,
place of confinement of any live stock within 100 feet of any
existing public street or highway in said town. Any person or
persons violating this last section shall on conviction pay a fine
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