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fires or other city purposes; or may supply such light or water themselves;
provided, no contract so entered into with a private corporation or com-
pany shall be for a longer period than ten years, or in default of any such
contract they may provide same at the expense and for the use of the city.

1910, oh. 529, sec. 94.

90. The Mayor and Council of Crisfield are hereby authorized and

empowered to borrow on the faith and credit of the city and for the use
of the city a sum or sums of money in all not exceeding in the aggregate
five thousand dollars, and may issue emergency notes or other evidences

of indebtedness, under authority of this section on such time and at such
rate of interest as may be determined by the Mayor and Council, and the
interest thereon must be paid by the Mayor and Council from the gen-
eral taxes levied for the use of the city under the power in this Act con-
ferred; the levying or collecting of any special tax for the payment of
such notes or other evidences of indebtedness being expressly prohibited.

1910, ch. 529, sec. 95.

91. For the enforcement of the city ordinance the police justice who
shall be one of the justices of the peace of the State of Maryland in!
and for Somerset County and for Crisfield District shall have all the
power of ordering arrest and summoning witnesses, trying cases and in-
flicting fines and punishments for violations of the same that are now
vested in justices of the peace by the State laws, and shall be entitled
to demand and receive the same fees therefor as in other criminal cases.
He shall be furnished with a copy of the Charter and ordinances of the

city, and shall keep a separate docket for corporation cases, submit the
same when required and render quarterly statements and pay over all
the fines to the treasurer. And the Mayor and Council may provide that

a violation of the provisions of any ordinance may be a misdemeanor and
punishable by fine and imprisonment in the city or county jail. From any
judgment rendered by the police justice in the enforcement of any provi-
sion of this chapter or of the ordinances of the city, an appeal shall be
by the party aggrieved to the Circuit Court for Somerset County; pro-
vided the appeal is taken within thirty days after the rendering of such
judgment; but no appeal shall stay process or execution upon judgment
unless good and sufficient bond be given for payment of fine and all costs
in case judgment be affirmed.

1910, ch. 529, sec. 96.

92. This act shall not affect or impair any right vested or acquired

and existing at the time of the passage of this Act relating to said city or
its officers; provided that this section shall not be construed to make irre-
pealable or irrevocable any rights which before the passage of this Act
was repealable or revocable; nor shall this Act impair, discharge or release
any contract, obligation, duty, liability or penalty whatever now existing.
All suits and action, both civil and criminal, pending or which may here-
after be instituted for causes of action now existing or offenses already