4816 ARTICLE 22.

NUMBERING HOUSES.

1912, ch. 159, sec. 1.

415. The Mayor and Council of Hagerstown shall have authority and
they are hereby empowered to pass a general ordinance providing for a
system or plan for the numbering of the houses of Hagerstown, and to
assign to some officer of the Mayor and Council of Hagerstown the duty
of seeing that houses are numbered according to the plan provided by said
ordinance. The numbers and number plates shall be furnished by and at
the expense of the Mayor and Council of Hagerstown, and shall be of such
design or pattern as shall be determined by said ordinance; but any indi-
vidual desiring to use a plate of different design or pattern from that pre-
scribed by said ordinance may do so, provided that said designs are ap-
proved by the Mayor and Council; but the expense for any special design
shall be borne by the property owner and not by the Mayor and Council.

1912, ch. 159, sec. 2.

416. After the regular passage and approval of 'an ordinance, as pro-
vided by this act, it shall be unlawful for any person or property owner
to place any number on any house in Hagerstown until after said num-
bers shall have been first approved by the Mayor and Council of Hagers-
town in manner and form as by said ordinance provided; it shall be unlaw-
ful for any person or property owner to maintain any number on any
house in Hagerstown which shall not correspond with the correct number
of said house, as determined by the Mayor and Council in manner and
form as by said ordinance provided; it shall be unlawful for any person
or property owner to change any number on any house after said house
has been correctly numbered by the Mayor and Council of Hagerstown.
Any person or property owner who may interfere with the officer or em-
ployee of the Mayor and Council of Hagerstown in the discharge of his
duties under said ordinances shall be deemed guilty of a misdemeanor
and be amenable to the penalties provided by said ordinance for said
offense.

1912, ch. 159, sec. 3.

417. Said ordinance shall provide as penalties for a violation of its
provisions, after conviction before one of the police justices of Hagers-
town, a fine not to exceed twenty-five dollars and costs, or imprisonment
in the county jail for a period not to exceed twenty days, or until said
fine and costs are paid.

PARKS.

1918, ch. 40, sec. 1.

418. The Mayor, by and with the advice and consent of the Council,
shall immediately after the passage of this Act appoint five persons resi-
dents of Hagerstown, who shall constitute and be known as the Park Com-
mission of Hagerstown, three of whom shall hold office for the first two