SOMERSET COUNTY. 4475
1894, ch. 543, sec. 210J.
330. All able-bodied male citizens residing in the corporate limits of
Princess Anne, over eighteen years of age, shall be compelled to labor not
less than three days, of ten hours each, in every year, on the streets of
said town; provided, however, no person shall be required to labor who
may furnish a substitute, or pay to the bailiff the sum of one dollar per
day for each day's labor required of him, in lieu of said labor; and any
person who shall fail or refuse to obey the summons of the bailiff for labor
on the public streets, shall be guilty of a misdemeanor, and upon complaint
made by the bailiff shall be arrested and brought before a justice of the
peace in said town upon a warrant to be issued by said justice, and upon
proof of such summons and a failure or refusal to obey the same, shall be
fined not less than one dollar and not more than five dollars and all costs
of such proceedings, and to be committed to the jail of Somerset county
until such fine and costs are paid.
1894, ch. 543, sec. 210K.
331. All fines, penalties and forfeitures which may be imposed under
the provisions of this act or any ordinance passed in pursuance thereof
not otherwise provided for, may be recovered before a justice of the peace
of Somerset county, in the name of the president and commissioners of
Princess Anne town as other fines are recovered, and be applied to the
benefit of said town; and the justice of the peace before whom the offender
may be tried, in case of non-payment of such fines and costs, in addition
to process of execution for the enforcement thereof, shall have power forth-
with to commit the offender to the county jail until the payment of said
fine, penalty or forfeiture so as aforesaid adjudged against him, together
with all costs, unless sooner released and discharged by order of said presi-
dent and commissioners.
1894, ch. 543, sec. 210L. 1900, ch. 327.
332. The County Commissioners of Somerset County shall authorize
and direct the treasurer of said county to pay on the first day of January
in each and every year, after the passage of this Act, to the president and
Commissioners of Princess Anne the sum of eight hundred dollars, and
no more, for the purpose of repairing and improving the streets and roads
within the corporate limits of the town of Princess Anne.
1912, ch. 547, sec. 210M.
333. The president and commissioners shall have the power and au-
thority to compel the filling in and abolition of any cesspool in said town,
or to prevent the maintaining of such cesspool whenever the residence, or
other buildings for the use of which such pool is maintained, shall be
located not more than three hundred feet from a public sewer in said town,
or from a sewer to which the public may have access; and may compel,
by fine or otherwise, the owner of the property upon which such pool is
located, to discontinue the use of, fill in and abolish any such pool so located
as aforesaid.
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