PHILLIPS LEE GOLDSBOROUGH, ESQ., GOVERNOR. 1495

ment, when the amount exceeds five dollars, may be taken to
the Circuit Court for the county, which shall hear and deter-
mine the matter as upon appeal from a justice of the peace, pro-
vided, however, that the justices of the peace residing in said
town shall have the same power to hear, try and determine all
criminal cases where the Mayor and Council are a party aa
they now have in cases where the State of Maryland is a party.

Ibid. sec. 198.

506. The bailiff shall have the same fees for making dis-
tresses or levying execution for taxes as are allowed county col-
lectors, and for making arrests or serving process for violation
of any ordinance of the corporation the same fees as are allowed
constables for similar services; and when the bailiff wilfully
fails to discharge any duty of his office he may, in addition to
the remedy on his bond, be fined by the Mayor in his discretion,
not exceeding ten dollars for any one offense, for the payment
of which said fine his bond shall be responsible.

Ibid. sec. 199.

507. All fines, penalties and forfeitures imposed by this
subtitle of this article, or by any ordinance of the Council, may
be collected in the name of the Mayor and Council, before the
Mayor or any justice of the peace, in the same manner as small
debts are collected, and the delinquent shall stand committed
to the county jail until the same are paid, with costs.

1890, ch. 546, sec. 201.

508. The public buildings and other county property in
said town shall not be subject to taxation, and shall continue
to the uses to which the same are now allotted; the judges of
the several courts shall continue to hold their courts in the court
house as heretofore; the commissioners of the county, the board
of public school commissioners, justices of the peace, sheriff,
constables and all other State and county officers shall have, hold
and exercise their offices in said town as heretofore, except as
qualified by the other sections of this article, and the county
Commissioners of Montgomery County shall on or before the
first day of January, eighteen hundred and ninety-one, and on
or before the first day of January, in each and every year there-
after, pay over to the Mayor and council of Rockville, that pro-
portion of the entire county levy for the repair of roads which
the total real property assessed within the limits of the town of
Rockville bears to the whole amount of assessed property in
Montgomery county, so that the Mayor and council of Rock-
ville, may receive and disburse for the maintenance of the
streets of said town the amount levied upon the real property