1844 ARTICLE 7.

entering upon the duties of his office he shall give bond to the Mayor and
Common Council, with good and sufficient surety or sureties to be approved
by the said Mayor and Common Council in such penalty as they shall
prescribe, conditioned that he shall well and truly pay over to his suc-
cessors in office, or to the order of said Mayor and Common Council,
signed by their clerk and countersigned by the Mayor, all such moneys,
and shall perform all other duties of his office according to law and the
ordinances of said Mayor and Common Council; he shall keep full and
correct accounts of all moneys received by him, with the source from
which the same were received, and the dates of such receipts, and of the
disbursements, and the person to whom and on what account the same
were made; and the same person may, in the discretion of the Mayor and
Common Council, be appointed clerk and treasurer.

1908, ch. 232, sec. 20A (p. 707).

375. The treasurer shall also act as assessor and shall make and return
to the Mayor and Common Council on or before the 25th of June, in
each and every year, a full and complete list of all lawful property,
stocks and investments in said town liable to taxation and not found on
the tax books of Carroll and Howard County. The Mayor and Common
Council shall have the power to make: any alteration in the assessment
made by the treasurer which they may think proper and right. The
treasurer shall receive a fee of twenty-iive cents (25) for each assessment
made by him of new or missed property.

1904, ch. 256. sec. 21.

376. The Mayor and Common Council shall not expend or contract
to expend in any one year more money than the amount receivable from
taxes and other resources for that year.

1904, ch. 256, sec. 22.

377. The Mayor and Common Council may provide by ordinances for
the immediate arrest, without a warrant, of any person found violating
any town ordinance, and when it shall appear that the offender is intoxi-
cated, may confine said offender in some secure place until he be sober,
and may provide further for the confinement of any person arrested if the
time be unreasonable, as in the night, whereby he cannot attend the justice
until a reasonable hour of the succeeding morning, when lie shall be taken
before a justice of the peace and dealt with according to the nature of the
offense; provided, that such person so arrested may deposit with the
bailiff a sum of money to cover any fine and costs that may be assessed
against him for the violation of said ordinance, or give security for the
same acceptable to the bailiff.

1904, ch. 256, sec. 23.

378. The Mayor of said town, by virtue of his office, shall have and
exercise all the police powers of a conservator of the peace at common law;