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reason of death, resignation, removal from office or otherwise, the said
Town Council shall have the power to fill said vacant office by appointment
from the unexpired term of said office so vacant. The council shall not
allow or pass any order for the payments of claims or indebtedness against
the said corporation unless such claims are probated and sworn to.

1898, ch. 25, sec. 178.

416. The Town Council may appoint a supervisor or supervisors of
the streets, lanes and alleys of said town whenever in their discretion they
may deem proper to so appoint and direct in what manner the same shall
be kept up and repaired, and may allow such supervisor such compensation
for his services as they may deem reasonable.

1898, ch. 25, sec. 179.

417. The Town Council may from time to time cause an assessment
to be made of all the property, real and personal, in the town by three
persons appointed by them and may levy thereon a tax not exceeding in
any one year fifty cents on every hundred dollars' worth of assessable
property.
See sec. 418.

1898, ch. 25, sec. 180. 1924, ch. 503.

418. The Mayor and Town Council shall have power to levy and col-
lect taxes not to exceed seventy-five cents on the one hundred dollars' worth
of assessable property in any one year, except for the years 1924 and
1925, when the tax rate may be one dollar, and whenever the said Council
shall levy a tax, which levy shall be made out on the first Monday in May
in each year, an alphabetical list of the persons chargeable therewith shall
be made out and affixed thereto the respective sums to be collected from
each person, and annexed to said list shall be a warrant to the bailiff
or collector to collect the same, and said bailiff or collector shall within
twenty days after the receipt of such warrant and list render to each
person named therein an account of his tax, and may, unless the same
be paid within sixty days after the date of such levy, collect the same by
distress or other due process of law and sale of goods and chattels of the
delinquent, and the bailiff or collector shall account for the amount of
such levy with the Mayor and Town Council within three months from
the receipt of such warrant and list, and pay over the same collected
under the penalty of double the amount thereof to the Treasurer of said
town. The Mayor and Town Council may in their discretipn allow a dis-
count on all taxes paid within the said sixty days, not to exceed five per-
cent.

1898, ch. 25, sec. 181.

419. All fines, penalties and forfeitures imposed by this charter, or for
the violation of any ordinance of said town, shall be recoverable in the
name of the corporation as small debts before such justice of the peace of
the State of Maryland residing in said town, as may be elected police