MONTGOMERY COUNTY. 3475

1892, ch. 497, sec. 11. 1912, ch. 790, sec. 377.

557. The commissioners may pass such ordinances, not inconsistent
with law, as they may deem beneficial to the town; may open and close the
streets, lanes and alleys; grade and pave the same; remove nuisances and
obstructions therefrom; restrain all disorders and disturbances; prevent
all congregations of disorderly persons in public places, and may impose
fines, penalties and forfeitures for the violation of their ordinances, and
may commit all offenders to the county jail until the same be paid with
costs.

1892, ch. 497, sec. 12. 1912, ch. 790, sec. 378.

558. They may, as often as they may deem advisable, cause an assess-
ment 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, which assessment shall not exceed the assessment of the same for
county purposes and the commissioners may levy a tax thereon not exceed-
ing ten cents in the hundred dollars' worth of property.

1892, ch. 497, sec. 13. 1912, ch. 790, sec. 379.

559. Whenever they shall levy a tax, they shall cause to be made out
an alphabetical 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 bailiff to collect the same; and the said bailiff shall have
the same power of distraint as a collector of county taxes, and his pro-
ceedings thereunder shall be in all respects similar to the proceedings
of a collector of county taxes in such cases.

1892, ch. 497, sec. 14. 1912, ch. 790, sec. 380.

560. The bailiff shall make all collections required of him and pay the
same to the clerk within six months from the time the tax bill is placed in
his hands.

1892, ch. 497, sec. 15. 1912, ch. 790, sec. 381.

561. 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 before a justice of the peace; and the
justice of the peace shall have power to commit the offender to the county
jail on failure to pay such fine and forfeitures until the same shall be
paid with costs.

1892, ch. 497, sec. 16. 1912, ch. 790, sec. 382.

562. The commissioners shall not expend or contract to expend in any
one year more money than the amount receivable from taxes and other
sources for that year.

1892, ch. 497, sec. 17. 1912, ch. 790, sec. 383.

563. The county commissioners, justices of the peace, sheriffs, con-
stables, and all State and county officers shall have, hold and exercise