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P. L. L., 1888, Art. 16, sec. 196. 1912, ch. 790, sec. 504.

822. The bailiff shall attend the meetings of the Council, and per-
form such duties as it shall direct. He shall prevent disorderly or irreg-
ular meetings of persons, and he shall enforce all ordinances that may be
enacted by the Council.

P. L. L.r 1888, Art. 16, sec. 197. 1912, ch. 790, sec. 505.

823. The Mayor shall have all the powers of a justice of the peace in
criminal cases when the Mayor and Council are a party, and shall receive
the same fees as a justice of the peace is allowed for similar services, and
an appeal from his judgment, when the amount exceeds five dollars, may
be taken to the Circuit Court for the county, which shall hear and deter-
mine the matter as upon appeal from a justice of the peace, provided,
however, that the justices of the peace residing in said town shall have
the same power to hear, try and determine all criminal cases where the
Mayor and Council are a party as they now have in cases where the State
of Maryland is a party.

P. L. L., 1888, Art. 16, sec. 198. 1912, ch. 790, sec. 506.

824. The bailiff shall have the same fees for making distresses or-
levying execution for taxes as are allowed county collectors, and for mak-
ing arrests or serving process for violation of any ordinance of the cor-
poration the same fees as are allowed constables for similar services; and
when the bailiff wilfully fails to discharge any duty of his office he may,
in addition to the remedy on his bond, be fined by the Mayor in his dis-
cretion, not exceeding ten dollars, for any one offense, for the payment of
which said fine his bond shall be responsible.

P. L. L., 1888, Art. 16, sec. 199. 1912, ch. 790, sec. 507.

825. All fines, penalties and forfeitures imposed by this subtitle of
this article, or by any ordinance of the Council, may be collected in the
name of the Mayor and Council, before the Mayor or any justice of the
peace, in the same manner as small debts are collected, and the delinquent
shall stand committed to the county jail until the same are paid, with,
costs.

1890, ch. 546, sec. 201. 1912, ch. 790, sec. 508.

826. The public buildings and other county property in said town shall
not be subject to taxation, and shall continue to the uses to which the same
are now allotted; the judges of the several courts shall continue to hold
their courts in the court house as heretofore; the commissioners of the
county, the board of public school commissioners, justices of the peace,
sheriff, constables and all other State and county officers shall have, hold
and exercise their offices in said town as heretofore, except as qualified by
the other sections of this article, and the County Commissioners of Mont-
gomery County shall on or before the first day of January, eighteen hun-
dred and ninety-one, and on or before the first day of January, in each.