438 LAWS OF MARYLAND. [Ch. 223]

hereafter be organized and promoting its efficiency and growth;
and the Mayor and Council may become trustees of any such
fund, and may for the investment and accumulation of any
such fund buy and acquire title as such trustees to any prop-
erty, real or personal, and sell, grant, lease or mortgage the
same, and execute, acknowledge and deliver all necessary deeds
for carrying out the power hereby given. (33) To require by
ordinance or ordinances any railroad company or other cor-
poration running its locomotives or trains across any street
within the corporate limits, to keep a watchman or a flagman
at such crossing of said street to warn persons of the approach
of the locomotives and trains, and to enforce all such ordinances
by such fines or penalties within the limits herein provided,
as they deem necessary to enforce the power hereby given.
(34) And generally to pass all necessary by-laws and ordi-
nances not contrary to law for the preservation of the health,
comfort, convenience, morals, cleanliness, peace and good order
of the community, and for protection of the lives and prop-
erty of the citizens of said town, and for the suppression,
abatement and discontinuance of nuisances within the limits
of said town, and for the purpose of carrying on the foregoing
powers, the Mayor and Council may pass any and all ordi-
nances and by-laws from time to time deemed necessary, and
may enforce and insure the observance of such by-laws or ordi-
nances in addition to the usual action of debt or such other
civil remedies as may exist in such cases by law for the recov-
ery of fees, fines and penalties thereto affixed, they may affix
thereto reasonable penalty for default of payment of any fine
and cost imposed for violation of any ordinance or by-laws;
they may provide for the imprisonment of the offender for a
period not to exceed thirty days in the town lockup or the
county jail; or for his commitment to the custody of the police-
man under sentence to hard labor upon the streets of the town,
not to exceed ten days. And whenever in any such ordinance
or by-law a fine or penalty is imposed for the doing of any act
forbidden to be done by such ordinance or for omitting to do
any act required to be done by such ordinance, the doing of
such act in the first case or the omission to do such act in the
second case shall be deemed to be a criminal offense; and all
such offenses shall be prosecuted by the arrest of the offender
and by holding him to bail to appear in or committing him
for trial in the Circuit Court of Worcester County, unless upon
being brought before a justice of the peace and having been
informed of his right to a jury trial, as elsewhere provided in
this charter, he shall waive said right and elect to be tried