HOWARD COUNTY. 3077

fines and penalties, not exceeding Twenty ($20.00) Dollars for any one
offense.

1914, ch. 836, sec. 81G.

161. No person, persons, company, companies, corporation or cor-
porations, railroad or railway company or companies shall dig or open
up any of said City's streets, lanes, alleys or avenues for the purpose of
laying any railroad or railway tracks, gas or water pipes, or the planting
of any telephone, telegraph or electric light poles without first receiving
permission to do so from the Commissioners of Ellicott City, said per-
mission being by ordinance passed at a regular meeting of said Commis-
sioners.

1914, ch. 836, sec. 81H.

162. Any Justice of the Peace resident within the corporate limits of
said city, upon complaint made before him, of the violation of any ordi-
nance of said city or corporation, shall issue process in the name of the
Commissioners of Ellicott City to recover the fine or penalty imposed
for the violation of such ordinance against the party so offending, and
may hear and determine the matter as in any case arising under the laws
of the State, and shall receive the same fees therefor.

1914, ch. 836, sec. 81-I.

163. The justice may, in default of payment of any fine or penalty
imposed by him for a violation of any ordinances of the said corporation,
commit the party fined to the Howard County jail for a period not ex-
ceeding ten days; and the Sheriff of Howard County shall receive and
confine the party so committed in the same manner as other prisoners,
and shall be entitled to the same compensation therefor to be paid by said
corporation.

1914, ch. 836, sec, 81J.

164. The Commissioners of Ellicott City, if they shall deem it neces-
sary, may appoint a counsel to the corporation, and may allow him such
compensation as they may think proper for his services, not exceeding
Fifty ($50.00) Dollars per annum.

1914, ch. 836, sec. 81K.

165. The President may remit any fine or penalty imposed under any
ordinance of the Commissioners of Ellicott City.

1914, ch. 836, sec. 81L. 1927, ch. 435.

166. It shall be the duty of the County Commissioners of Howard
County to pay over annually to the Commissioners of Ellicott City one-
half of the amount of taxes levied and collected annually for road pur-
poses by the said County Commissioners upon the assessable property,
liable to taxation, within the corporate limits of the town of Ellicott City.