1860 ARTICLE 7.

geese, dogs, or any other brute, beasts or fowl; to have power and author-
ity to purchase and hold real, personsal and mixed property for the use
and benefit of said corporation and the citizens thereof, and to convey
and dispose of the same or any part thereof; to build or secure a place of
confinement for persons charged or convicted of violating the laws and
ordinances of said corporation of Taneytown, and they may pass all laws
and ordinances necessary from time to time to carry out and enforce the
foregoing provisions, and to enforce the observance of such laws and ordi-
nances by reasonable fines and penalties, not exceeding fifty dollars in
any one case, as may appear right to them, and they may recover said
fines and penalties by an action of debt, and in addition thereto they may
provide for the imprisonment of the offender or offenders for a period not
exceeding thirty days, or until the fine be paid; provided, that no greater
sum than one hundred dollars be charged for any one license, and instead
of the aforesaid penalties it shall be lawful, in case of the conviction of
any person for vagrancy, to sentence such person to hard work for a
period not exceeding ten days.*

P. L. L., 1888, Art. 7, sec. 155. 1884, ch. 509. 1890, ch. 300. 1892, ch. 331.
1920, ch. 239. 1927, ch. 266, sec. 155.

417. The said Commissioners shall cause to be made an assessment
from time to time of all assessable property, real and personal, within the
limits of said town, and shall levy a tax upon all such property not to
exceed in any one year fifty cents on the one hundred dollars, as they may
deem necessary for the said corporate government expenses, and such levy
shall be in addition to any special levies now required to be made by law;
and the said Commissioners may borrow, to be used for corporate pur-
poses, a sum not exceeding ten thousand dollars, which debt shall be can-
celled as rapidly as the collection of taxes succeeding said borrowing will
permit.

P. L. L., 1888, Art. 7, sec. 156. 1884, ch. 509.

418. They may direct by ordinances what material shall be used in
the paving, repairing and curbing the footways, or any of them, in said
town, and provide that the same shall be done at the expense of the own-
ers of the land in front of which said footway shall be made or repaired.

P. L. L., 188S, Art. 7, sec. 157. 1884, ch. 509.

419. If the owner of any land sha.ll refuse or neglect for thirty days
after notice, to pave, curb or repair any footway immediately in front of
his land on the same side of the road, street, lane or alley therewith, as
directed by any ordinance of the Commissioners consistent with this sub-
title, the burgess shall cause said work to be done, and collect the expenses
and costs thereof in the manner that county taxes are collected in Carroll
County or by action of debt.

*Sec. 2, ch. 145, 1900, repealed all laws inconsistent therewith.