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expense of the taxpayer, and unless the accounts or tax bills so rendered or
published are paid within thirty days after the delivery or publication
thereof, the bailiff may collect the same, with all costs, by distress and sale
of the real estate and personal property of the delinquent at public auction,
after giving at least ten days' notice of such sale in some newspaper pub-
lished in said county.

1890, ch. 118, sec. 19. 1912, ch. 790, sec. 75.

61. The president of the commissioners shall execute and deliver to the
purchaser a deed of the property so sold, and the said deed shall convey
to the purchaser the said property and shall be presumptive evidence that
all the requirements of law have been complied in making such sale and
deed.

1890, ch. 118, sec. 20. 1912, ch. 790, sec. 76.

62. The chief bailiff shall attend the meetings of the commissioners
and perform such duties as they shall direct; shall preserve the peace and
good order of the town, and for this purpose is invested with the same
power and authority as any constable has under the laws of this State.

1890, ch. 118, sec. 21. 1912, ch. 790, sec. 77.

63. The chief bailiff shall make all collections required of him and pay
the same to the clerk within six months from the time the tax bills are
placed in his hands.

1890, ch. 118, sec. 22. 1912, ch. 790, sec. 78.

64. The president shall preside at all meetings of the commissioners,
and shall have all the powers of a justice of the peace in criminal cases
when the commissioners are a party, and shall receive the same fees
allowed a justice of the peace in similar cases, and an appeal from his
judgment, where the demand or fine exceeds five dollars, may be taken
to the Circuit Court for Montgomery County, which shall hear and deter-
mine the matter as upon appeals from a justice of the peace.

1890, ch. 118, sec. 23. 1912, ch. 790, sec. 79.

65. The chief bailiff shall have the same fees for making distress for
taxes as are allowed county collectors; and for making arrests or serving
process for violations of any ordinances of the corporation the same fees
as are allowed constables for similar services; and when the chief bailiff
fails to discharge any of the duties of his office he may be fined not exceed-
ing ten dollars for any one offense.

1890, ch. 118, sec. 24. 1912, ch. 790, sec. 80.

66. Any fines, penalties and forfeitures imposed by this charter, or by
any ordinance of the commissioners, may be collected by proceedings in
the name of the commissioners as other small debts are collected, or a
justice of the peace shall have power to commit the offender to the county
jail on failure to pay such fines and forfeitures until the same shall be
paid with costs.