MONTGOMERY COUNTY. 3283

1904, ch. 680, sec. 12. 1912, ch. 790, sec. 37.

27. The commissioners shall receive all returns of election and shall
determine all questions arising thereon, but any person feeling aggrieved
by such decision may appeal therefrom to the Circuit Court for Mont-
gomery County, which Court shall hear and determine such appeal and
who shall pay the cost thereof.

1904, ch. 680, sec. 13. 1912, ch. 790, sec. 38.

28. The commissioners may pass such ordinances not inconsistent with
the laws of the State, as they may deem beneficial to the town, may open
and close streets, lanes and alleys, grade and pave the same, remove nui-
sances and obstructions therefrom, restrain all disorders and disturbances,
prevent all congregations of disorderly persons in public places, apprehend
all tramps and vagabonds, impose a tax on dogs, geese, hogs and other
animals running at large in the streets, or totally prohibit the same; and
may impose fines, penalties and forfeitures for the violation of their ordi-
nances, and commit all offenders to the county jail until the same be paid
with costs; may pass such ordinances as they may deem necessary for the
preservation of the health of the town and remove all nuisances from or
prohibit all business within the corporate limits thereof, as shall, in their
opinion, injuriously affect the sanitary conditions thereof.

1904, ch. 680, sec. 14. 1912, ch. 790, sec. 39.

29. The commissioners may, as often as they deem advisable, cause an
assessment to be made of all the real and personal property within said
town or the corporate limits thereof, by a person to be appointed and paid
by them, and the commissioners may levy a tax thereon, not exceeding
forty cents on the hundred dollars' worth of assessable property in any
one year.

1904, ch. 680, sec. 15. 1912, ch. 790, sec. 40.

30. Any person dissatisfied with the assessment, may appeal to the
commissioners at their first meeting after such assessment is made, and
said commissioners shall increase or abate such assessment as they deem
just.

1904, ch. 680, sec. 16. 1912, ch. 790, sec. 41.

31. Whenever the commissioners shall levy a tax they shall cause to
be made out a list of the persons charged therein, and shall cause to be
affixed thereto the respective sums to be collected from such persons and a
warrant to the sheriff to collect the same.

1904, ch. 680, sec. 17. 1912, ch. 790, sec. 42.

32. The bailiff shall, within ten days after the receipt of such list and
warrant, render to each person named therein an account or tax bill
showing the amount due by him, if he be a resident of the town, and if he
be a non-resident and in consequence thereof cannot convenientlv be served