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finement as the Town Commissioners may establish. The said police jus-
tice shall have the same power and conform to the same procedure in trials
and commitments within his jurisdiction as justices of the peace of said
county now have or may have in criminal cases, and shall be entitled to
charge the same fees as said county justices. The bailiff or bailiffs ap-
pointed by said Town Commissioners shall have power to arrest persons

charged with violating the town ordinances, and to confine them in the
county jail until they are brought before such police justice for trial or
before a justice of the peace for said county; and also to imprison or con-
fine any person convicted of a breach of the peace or of a violation of
any kind of said ordinances and committed to the said jail by such police
or county justice, or in such other place of confinement as the said com-
missioners may provide, and they shall be entitled to charge the same fees

as constables are allowed by law in like cases. The sheriff of said county
is hereby directed to receive into said county jail any person or persons
brought to said jail by said town bailiff or bailiffs, committed to the same
by the aforesaid town justice or any justice of the peace of said county.

1896, ch. 37, sec. 61. 1912 Code, sec. 71.

59. They are authorized and empowered to levy annually such taxes
upon the assessable property within said corporation as may seem to them
necessary; provided, that the amount of taxes levied for any one year shall
not exceed thirty cents on the one hundred dollars, which taxes shall be

collected by a collector, appointed by the commissioners; the levy shall be
made on or before the thirty-first day of May for each year, and all taxes
so levied shall be a lien on any and all property of the person against whom
they may be levied; if any of said taxes shall remain unpaid after the
first day of August next succeeding the date of their levy, the said col-
lector may proceed to collect the same by way of distress and execution
in the same manner as is described in Sections forty-nine to sixty-three,
inclusive, of article eighty-one* on the Code of Public General Laws of the
State of Maryland.

P. L. L., 1888, Art. 17, sec. 62. 1912 Code, sec. 72. 1916, ch. 65.

60. The President and Commissioners of the Village of Bladensburg
are authorized to direct, or order, any of the foot-ways within said village
to be laid off, leveled and graded with such material as to a majority of
them may seem best, and one-half of the expenses of such work and im-
provement including such curbs and water gutters as may be necessary
shall be borne by the owners of the property in front of which the same
shall be directed to be made, and upon neglect or refusal to pay the amount
so assessed and expended the Commissioners may recover the same of said
owners by an action of debt or assumpsit and the sum or sums so assessed
against the abutting property for such improvements shall be a lien there-
on from the completion of said work until paid.

*Art. 81 has been entirely revised, but see secs. 69-86 of said Article in 1929
Supplement to Annotated Code.