1814 ARTICLE 7.

County are collected now, and all persons subject to the payment of such
taxes shall have the same rights, privileges and remedies now enjoyed
and possessed by persons subject to the payment of county taxes in Car-
roll County.

1900, ch. 519, sec. 20.

281. The Burgess of said town, by virtue of his office, for municipal
purposes and preserving the peace, shall have all the powers of the justice

of the peace; he shall see that the laws and ordinances of the corporation
are duly executed; he may require an officer of the corporation entrusted

with the receipt and expenditure of money of the corporation to submit to

him a statement of such officer's account as often as said Burgess or Com-

missioners may deem necessary; he shall report annually in writing to the
Commissioners the general condition of the town, with the moneys received
and expended, which report shall be posted up in not less than two of the
most public places of the town; he shall sign all laws and ordinances passed

by the Commissioners, with his reason, in case of his refusal to sign, and
if said law or ordinance so unsigned by him be against put upon its passage

and receive the votes of four-fifths of the Commissioners, it shall become a

law without the approval of the Burgess.

1900, ch. 519, sec. 21.

282. All other officers or assistants to officers necessary to execute the

powers of said corporation shall be provided and appointed as by ordinance

of the Burgess and Commissioners shall be directed.

1900, ch. 519, sec. 22'.

283. All moneys arising from taxes, fines, forfeitures and penalties
imposed by this Act, or any ordinance of the Burgess and Commissioners,
shall be appropriated only to the uses of said corporation, as may by order

or ordinance be directed.

1900, ch. 519, sec. 23..

284. All moneys arising from taxes, fines, forfeitures and penalties
imposed by this Act, or ordinance of the Burgess and Commissioners, shall
lie recovered before the Burgess or any justice of the peace, residing within
the corporate limits of said town, upon a warrant issued against the of-

fender, directed to the bailiff of said corporation, or any constable of said

county, in the corporate name of said town, and shall be collected by
judgment and execution in the same manner and with the same costs and
fees as provided for in cases of small debts, and with such penalties to the

officers for non-performance of duty as in such cases prescribed by the
laws of this State, and said fines, penalties and 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 ordinances intended to
secure the safety of the lives or property of any of the inhabitants of said
town, or licensing traveling showmen or exhibitors, the person or persons