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Code of the Public Local Laws of Maryland, 1930
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CAROLINE COUNTY. 1671

and bagatelle tables kept for public use; to license dogs and provide for
the killing of those going at large unlicensed; to regulate the inspection
and sale of milk, vegetables and all other foods and all weights and meas-
ures. They may pass all ordinances necessary from time to time to carry
out the aforegoing provisions, and enforce the observation of all ordi-
nances by fines, penalties and forfeitures not exceeding one hundred
dollars in any one case, or by imprisonment not exceeding sixty days in
the jail of Caroline County, provided that no greater sum than one hun-
dred dollars be charged for any one license.

1914, ch. 833, sec. 17.

442. The Commissioners shall have power to select any justice of the
peace in the Fourth Election District of Caroline County to serve as
police judge and said judge selected as aforesaid is hereby given jurisdic-
tion to try, hear and determine all offenses and acts committed in disre-
gard of the ordinances of the Commissioners and upon complaint made
before him of the violation of any ordinance of said corporation he shall
issue process in the name of the Commissioners of Preston, directed to the
bailiff, constable or sheriff of Caroline County to recover the fine or pen-
alty imposed for the violation of such ordinance or the arrest of the party
offending, and he shall hear and determine the matter in controversy as
in any case arising under the laws of this State and shall receive the same
fee therefor.

1914, ch. 833, sec. 18.

443. In default of payment of any fine or penalty imposed by said
justice of the peace, for the violation of any ordinance of the said Com-
missioners, the said justice of the peace may commit the party offending
to the county jail of Caroline County for the time prescribed by said
ordinance, or in the event said ordinance omits to prescribe the fine or
time, may impose a fine not exceeding one hundred dollars and in default
of its payment may commit the party to the county jail for a period not
exceeding sixty days, or may impose both fine and imprisonment in his
discretion, and the sheriff of said county shall receive and confine the
person so committed in the same manner as other prisoners, provided that
any person so fined or committed to jail shall have the right to take an
appeal to the Circuit Court for Caroline County within ten days from
the date of trial and may upon entering into his recognizance with suffi-
cient surety for his appearance to Court be released from legal custody.

1914, ch. 833, sec. 19.

444. Said Commissioners may, whenever they may deem it necessary,
borrow money on the credit of said town, by note or otherwise any amount
they may deem necessary, provided that said indebtedness, thus created,
shall not exceed at any time the sum of three thousand dollars.

 

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