3768 ARTICLE 17.

1922, ch. 52, sec 33.

175. The Mayor and the Common Council of Capitol Heights may
purchase and hold any property, real, personal or mixed, for the town
purposes, and dispose of the same for the benefit of said town, and may
erect suitable buildings for municipal purposes, the cost of any one build-
ing not to exceed five thousand dollars.

1922, ch. 52, sec. 34.

176. And the Mayor and Common Council shall deliver to the pur-
chaser at any tax sale as heretofore provided for the collection of taxes,
a certificate of purchase of the real property so sold, and the said certifi-
cate and the deed executed as herein provided shall convey to the pur-
chaser the absolute and fee simple title to the said property and shall be
presumptive evidence that all the requirements of the law have been com-
plied with in making such sale and certificate, but the delinquent tax-
payer shall have the right to redeem at any time within two years after
the said certificate by paying the unpaid tax and costs, with legal interest
and penalty of ten per cent, thereon, and if not so redeemed within two
years after the said certificate a deed shall be executed for same. This
section is applicable only when property is sold at public auction, after
giving at least ten days' public notice of said sale in at least one and not
more than two newspapers, to be designated by the Mayor of Capitol
Heights or by notice posted in at least three public places in said town.

1922, ch. 52, sec. 35.

177. The Mayor and Common Council may provide by ordinance for
the immediate arrest, without warrant, of any person found violating any
town ordinance, and when it shall appear that the offender is intoxicated,
may confine said offender in some secure place until he is sober and may
provide further for the confinement of any person arrested, if the time be
reasonable, as in the night, whereby he cannot attend the justice until a
reasonable hour of the succeeding morning, when he shall be taken before
a Justice of the Peace, and dealt with according to the nature of the
offense, provided that the Mayor and Com-mon Council may by ordinance
provide that such person so arrested may deposit with the bailiff a sum of
money to cover any fine that may be assessed against him, acceptable to said
bailiff.

1922, ch. 52, sec. 36.

178. Justices of the Peace for Prince George's County, residents in
the town, are hereby declared to be conservators of the peace of the town,
and it shall be their duty to order the arrest of any person found by them
breaking the peace or disturbing the quiet and order of the town, or
violating any of the ordinances made by the Mayor and Common Council,
and upon conviction to fine or imprison such offender as provided in said
ordinance. The fees of the Justice shall be the same as are allowed for
similar service by the laws of this State.