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if the said person be a resident of said town or in close proximity thereto,
but if a non-resident shall mail the same, if his address be known, but
if the address be unknown shall publish the same in some newspaper pub-
lished in Calvert County, the cost of said publication to be added to the
tax bill so published, and unless said bills be paid within thirty days of
the delivery or publication thereof, the said bailiff may collect the same
with all costs by distress and sale of the real estate and personal property
of the delinquent at public auction, after giving twenty days' notice in
some newspaper published in said county; and conveyance of said prop-
erty, so sold, by the Commissioners shall be presumptive evidence that
the law has been complied with in making such sale and conveyance.

1892, ch. 610, sec. 12.

293. The bailiff shall preserve the peace and good order of the town
and for this purpose is hereby invested with the same power and authority
as any constable has under the laws of the State; he shall make all collec-
tions required of him pay the same to the Commissioners within six
months from the time the tax bills are delivered to him, and shall perform
such duties as the Commissioners may direct.

1892, ch. 610, sec. 13.

294. The president shall preside at the meeting of the commissioners
and in case of offenses for violation of the ordiances (or any of them)
of the town shall have all the powers of a justice of the peace, and shall
be entitled in such cases to the same fees as justices of the peace in similar
cases; and whenever a fine imposed by him exceeds the value of five dol-
lars the party so fined shall have the same right of appeal to and trial
before the Circuit Court for Calvert County, as from an appeal from the
decision of a justice of the peace.

1892, ch. 610, sec. 14.

295. Any fines, penalties and forfeitures imposed by this charter or
any ordinance of the Commissioners, may be collected in their name as
other small debts are collected, or a justice of the peace shall have power
to commit such offenders to the county jail in default of payment of such
fines and forfeitures and penalties until the same shall be paid with costs.

1892, ch. 610, sec. 15.

296. The commissioners shall not expend or contract to expend in any
one year more money than the amount receivable from taxes and other
sources for that year, and they shall have power to establish the original
building lines on any streets in said town as far as practicable without
removing present buildings, to establish building lines on any street here-
after opened and to compel all persons erecting buildings in said town to
conform thereto.