1428 LAWS OF MARYLAND. [Ch. 790]

whom said oath was made, among the records of the corpora-
tion.

Ibid. sec. 116.

314. The commissioners shall receive all returns of election,
and determine all questions arising thereon.

P. L. L. (1888), art. 16, sec. 117.

315. They may pass such ordinances, not inconsistent with
law, as they may deem beneficial to the town; may open and
close streets, lanes and alleys; grade and pave the same; remove
nuisances and obstructions thereform; restrain all disorders
and disturbances; prevent all congregations of disorderly per-
sons in public places; and may impose fines, penalties and for-
feitures for the violation of their ordinances, and may commit
all offenders to the county jail until the same be paid, with
costs.

Ibid. sec. 118.

316. They may, as often as they may deem advisable, cause
an assessment to be made of all the real and personal property
within said town, or the corporate limits thereof, by a person
to be appointed and paid by them, which assessment shall not
exceed the assessment of the same for county purposes, and the
commissioners may levy a tax thereon not exceeding ten cents
in the hundred dollars' worth of property.

Ibid. sec. 119.

317. Whenever they shall levy a tax, they shall cause to
be made out an alphabetical list of the persons charged therein,
and shall cause to be affixed thereto the respective sums to be
collected from such persons, and a warrant to the bailiff to
collect the same; and the said bailiff shall have the same power
of distraint as a collector of county taxes.

Ibid. sec. 120.

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

Ibid. sec. 121.

319. Any fines, penalties and forfeitures imposed by this
charter, or by any ordinance of the commissioners, may be
collected by proceedings in the name of the commissioners,
before a justice of the peace; and the justice of the peace shall
have power to commit the offender to the county jail on failure
to pay such fine and forfeitures until the same shall be paid,
with costs.