WASHINGTON COUNTY. 4705

1904, ch. 219, sec. 56D.

67. The Burgess and Council shall have the right to condemn the parts
of all public highways lying within the limits of the town for public use
and to open, widen, straighten or close up the same in whole or in part;
provided, free access is allowed to all public roads running to the limits
of the town through the highways of the town.

1904, ch. 219, sec. 56E.

68. For the enforcement of the town ordinances the Burgess shall be
and he is hereby constituted the police justice of Boonesboro, and for the
enforcement of said ordinances shall have all the powers, privileges and
immunities conferred by law upon a justice of the peace. He shall be fur-
nished with copies of the ordinances of the town and shall keep a docket
for corporation cases and therein record and make regular entries of the
proceedings in all such cases setting forth the fine or imprisonment im-
posed and the amount of costs, and he shall submit said docket to the
inspection of any person who may request to see the same, and upon de-
mand of any person interested shall deliver a copy of any judgment ren-
dered by him. It shall be the duty of said Burgess to make out a sum-
marized statement of all corporation cases tried before him with the fines.
and costs therein collected, which statement shall be submitted semi-annu-
ally to the Council after being sworn to before a justice of the peace; upon
the request of the Council the said Burgess shall produce his docket and
may be placed under oath and interrogated as to the entries therein. He
shall pay over to the Treasurer quarterly all fines collected by him; all
stationery supplies used by said Burgess in the town business shall be fur-
nished him by the Burgess and Council.

1904, ch. 219, sec- 56F.

69. If the Burgess wilfully neglects to discharge any of the duties-
imposed upon him by the preceding section or refuses to pay over the fines
collected by him as herein directed, he shall be liable to indictment in the
Circuit Court for Washington County, and upon conviction shall be fined
the sum of fifty dollars or imprisonment in the county jail for a term not
exceeding three months, or both in the discretion of the court.

1904, ch. 219, sec. 56G.

70. From any judgment rendered by the Burgess as the police justice
in the enforcement of the ordinances of the town, an appeal shall lie by
the person aggrieved to the Circuit Court for Washington County; pro-
vided, the appeal is taken within three days after the rendering of the
judgment, and provided the person aggrieved shall enter into good and
sufficient bond for the faithful prosecution of the appeal and for the pay-
ment of all costs in case the judgment be affirmed; but no appeal shall
stay process or execution upon judgment unless the bond be given as above
provided.