PHILLIPS LEE GOLDSBOROUGH, ESQ., GOVERNOR. 1449

tions of disorderly persons in public places, and may impose
fines, penalties and forfeitures for the violation of their ordi-
nances, and may commit all offenders to the county jail until
the same be paid with costs.

Ibid. sec. 12.

378. That 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.

1892, ch. 497, sec. 13.

379. That 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, and his prof-
ceedings thereunder shall be in all respects similar to the pro-
ceedings of a collector of county taxes in such cases.

Ibid. sec. 14.

380. That 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. 15.

381. That 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.

Ibid. sec. 16.

382. That the commissioners shall not expend or contract
to expend in any one year more money than the amount receiv-
able from taxes and other sources for that year.

Ibid. sec. 17.

383. That the county commissioners, justices of the peace,
sheriffs, constables, and all State and county officers shall have,
hold and exercise their offices and jurisdiction in said town as
if this charter had not been granted and the County Commis-
sioners of Montgomery County shall, on or before the first day