WASHINGTON COUNTY. 4927

1894, ch. 634, sec. 20.

743. The sheriff of Washington county shall receive and safe keep in
the jail of said county, all persons who shall be committed thereto for a
breach of any of the ordinances of said town, according to the tenor of
said commitment, and in the same manner and under the same regulations
as persons committed for violations of the laws of the State.

1894, ch. 634, sec. 21. 1896, ch. 67, sec. 21. 1898, ch. 99, sec. 21.

744. Any justice of the peace, having his office in the town of Sharps-
burg, the Burgess, or in his absence the assistant Burgess, may hear and
determine all cases arising under the ordinances of the corporation, and
upon conviction of the offender shall impose the fine prescribed by the
ordinance violated. Should the person convicted fail to pay the fine and
the costs of the proceedings, he shall be committed to the county jail for
a period not exceeding thirty days, unless he shall pay such fine and costs,
with the cost of commitment and imprisonment, before the day limited in
said commitment, when the sheriff shall at once release the prisoner.

1894, ch. 634, sec. 22. 1898, ch. 99, sec. 22.

745. Any person so convicted may forthwith supersede the fine and
costs for a period of sixty days, or may forthwith appeal to the Circuit
Court for Washington County, upon giviug in either case security in
double the amount of the fine and costs, to be approved by the officer before
whom the case was tried. The justice, Burgess or assistant Burgess may
hold any person charged with violating an ordinance to bail, with approved
security, for his appearance for trial at a date not exceeding thirty days
from the date of the recognizance, whenever, in his judgment, the ends
of justice require such delay; or in the failure to receive such security
for trial, the officer shall commit the person to jail for his said appearance,
and the sheriff shall receive and keep the said prisoner as provided for in
Section 743; and whenever the said prisoner is convicted of the charge
for which he was so held for trial, he shall pay all the costs attending his
commitment and detention for trial, said costs to be included in those of
the judgment rendered against him. All appeal bonds shall be conditioned
that if the appellant shall not prosecute his appeal with effect at the next
term of the Circuit Court for Washington County, and also pay and satisfy
said judgment in case it shall be affirmed, as well as the debt and costs
adjudged therein, as also the costs awarded by the Circuit Court, then
said bond to be and remain in full force and virtue, otherwise to be of
non-effect. No appeal shall be entertained or heard by said court unless
such bond be filed with the clerk of the court.

1894, ch. 634, sec. 23.

746. The burgess and commissioners shall have power to provide, by
ordinance, for laying out, opening, extending, widening, straightening or
closing up, in whole or in part, any street, highway, square, lane, alley,
drain or any water course within the limits of said town, when in their
opinion public convenience may require.