CARROLL COUNTY. 1795

same when necessary, for the space of one month after notice has been
given him by the Mayor or Town Clerk, in writing, requiring the same to
be done, the Mayor and Council may cause the same to be done at the
expense of the owner of the lot, which expense shall be a lien on said lot
of ground until paid, and may be recovered from the said owners by the
Mayor and Council as other debts of like amount are recovered in this
State by law; they may also require the owners of the lots of ground
fronting on. either side of the street or alley, graded or paved or other-
wise improved, to pay two-thirds of the expense incurred in grading and
paving or otherwise improving the same, to be apportioned among them
by the Mayor and Council, payable whenever said work may be finished;
such apportionment to be in proportion to the front feet of said lots owned
by them respectively; and whenever payment thereof is refused the
Mayor and Council may recover the same by law in the same manner as
county taxes are collected in this State, the remaining one-third of the said
expense shall fee paid by the Mayor and Council but of the taxes levied
by them upon the citizens of the town generally.*

1900, ch. 341, sec. R.

227. The Mayor of said town, by virtue of his said office for munic-
ipal purposes and for preserving the peace, shall have all the power and
authority of a justice of the peace, and shall see that the ordinances of
the corporation are duly executed; he shall sign all ordinances passed by
the Council, and in case he disapproves of any ordinance, he may refuse
to sign the same, and shall return it to the Council, at the next meeting
thereof, with his reason for withholding his signature therefrom; and if
lie said ordinance, when again put upon its passage, shall receive the
votes of four of the members of the Council, it shall become a valid ordi-
nance without the signature of the Mayor.

1900, ch. 341, sec. S.

228. All fines, penalties and forfeitures imposed by the laws and
ordinances of said Mayor and Council shall be recovered before the Mayor
or any justice of the peace resident within the corporate limits of said
town, upon a warrant issued against the offender, directed to the bailiff
of said corporation, on any constable of Carroll or Frederick Counties,
in the corporation name of said town, and shall be collected by judgment
and execution in the same manner and with the same costs and fees pro-
vided for in the case of suits before a justice of the peace, and with such
penalties to the officers for non-performance of duty in such cases pre-
scribed by the laws of the State; and said fines, penalties amd forfeitures
shall be paid by the officer collecting the same to the clerk and treasurer
of said town; provided, that if the offense be a breach of the peace or
disturbing the good order of the town, or in violation of any of the ordi-
nances intended to secure the safety of the lives or property of any of the

*Sec. 2, ch. 645, 1920, reads as follows: This Act shall not affect or impair any
rights vested, or any contracts, obligations, duties, liabilities or penalties whatever
now existing.