1280 LAWS OF MARYLAND. [Ch. 770]

shall violate the provisions of this section shall on conviction
pay a fine of not less than fifty nor more than two hundred
dollars for each offense, and upon failure to pay the same,
together with the costs of prosecution, shall be committed to
jail and confined therein until such fine and costs are paid, or
for the period of forty days, whichever shall first occur.

116E. Any person who shall sell spirituous or fermented
liquors or lager beer or who shall keep or conduct the business
of a hotel, inn or boarding house, whether the same shall be a
building exclusively for that purpose or in a dwelling house,
shall pay a license of twenty-five dollars per year, or a pro-
portionate amount for periods less than a year; all such licenses
shall be paid to the clerk or bailiff appointed in accordance
with the provisions of this act for municipal purposes, and
shall run in all cases from the time of the beginning of said
business to the first of May ensuing. The license herein im-
posed shall be in addition to any other license that may be
imposed by the Public General Laws of this State or the Pub-
lic Local Laws relating to Charles county; but it is not the
intent hereof that any person keeping a hotel and selling any
of the aforesaid liquors shall pay the license herein provided
for, for more than one of such kind of business. Any person
who shall violate the provisions of this section shall upon con-
viction pay a fine of not less than fifty nor more than two
hundred dollars for each offense, and upon failure to pay the
same together with the costs of prosecution, shall be committed
to jail and confined therein until such fine and costs are paid,
or for a period of forty days, whichever shall first occur. No
prosecution before justices of the peace for violation of any of
the sections of this act or the article of which this act is
amendatory, or of any of the ordinances passed in pursuance
thereof, shall fail or any of the proceedings therein be invalid,
because of any defect or error in matter of form, and the same
shall be amendable to such extent as may be necessary for the
purpose of carrying out the intent of the provisions of this
act.

116F. Whenever the said commissioners shall decide that it
is expedient that any road, street, lane or alley, as aforesaid,
within said corporate limits, shall be opened, widened and
straightened, changed or closed, or make subways, as provided
in section 102. unless they shall be able to make satisfactory
contracts necessary for the same or unless the necessary lands
or easements in or over the same shall be donated for the pur-
poses, they shall appoint three disinterested persons, residents
of the town, to assess all damages done, suffered and incurred