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nances so issued by the authority of the Common Council may be read in
evidence from the printed codification.

1927, oh. 162, sec. 323A

548. A copy of any ordinance or record of the Mayor and Common
Council of Hyattsville, certified by its clerk under its seal to be a true
copy and the whole of such ordinance or record, shall be received in all
Courts as presumptive legal evidence of the facts therein stated.

PUBLIC PROPERTY.

1908, ch. 79, sec. 28. 1912 Code, sec. 324.

549. The Mayor and Common Council of Hyattsville may purchase
and hold said property, real, personal or mixed, for town purposes, and
dispose of the same for the benefit of said town, and may erect suitable
buildings for municipal purposes.

Rushe v. Mayor & C. C. of Hyattsville, 116 Md. 122.

INTOXICATED PERSONS.

1908, ch. 79, sec. 29. 1912 Code, sec. 325.

550. The Mayor and Common Council may provide by ordinance for
the immediate arrest, without warrant, of any person found violating any
town ordinances, and when it shall appear that the offender is intoxicated,
may confine said offender in some secure place until he be sober; and may
provide, further, for the confinement of any person arrested if the time
be unreasonable, 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 such person so arrested shall deposit with the bailiff
a sum of money to cover any fine that may be assessed against him for
the violation of said ordinance, or security for the same acceptable to said
bailiff.

JUSTICES OF THE PEACE.

1908, ch. 79, sec. 30. 1912 Code, sec. 326.

551. Justice of the peace for Prince George's county, resident 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 vio-
lating any of the ordinances made by the Mayor and Common Council
for securing the safety of the property or the lives of the inhabitants of
the town, and upon complaint made before them of the violation of any
ordinance of said town shall issue process, in the name of the Mayor and
Common Council of Hyattsville, to recover the fine or penalty imposed
for the violation of such ordinance against the party offending, and may