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without warrant, and if between sunset on one day and sunrise on the
next day, or at any time on Sunday, the policeman has occasion to arrest
any person or persons for any offense committed in said town, whether
the offense was committed in the presence of the officer or otherwise, and
the policeman believes that under the circumstances he ought to make the
arrest without delay, said officer may make the arrest without delay; said

officer may make the arrest without a warrant and may place the prisoner
in the lock-up until the following morning at such hour as a warrant can
be obtained. And the policeman shall perform such other duties men-
tioned in this chapter or in the ordinances of the town as the Mayor and
Council shall assign to him. He shall pay over all fines coming into his
hands to the town treasurer monthly, and the amount thereof shall be

entered upon the minutes; the policeman, before entering upon the dis-
charges of his duties, shall take the required oath and give bond to the
State of Maryland in the sum of two hundred and fifty dollars, condi-
tioned that he will faithfully discharge all the duties appertaining to the
office of policeman of Berlin and account for and pay over to the treasurer
monthly all money collected by him and belonging to the said town; said
bond to be approved and recorded in like manner as the bond of the tax

collector. If any vacancy shall occur in the offices of secretary, treasurer

or policeman, the Mayor, by and with the advice and approval of the
Council, shall appoint a successor to serve out the unexpired term for
which the original appointment was made.

1908, ch. 733. 1920 Code, sec. 18.

19. The tax collector shall perform such duties as may be assigned to
him by this charter and by the ordinances of the town, but it shall be

especially his duty to collect the taxes levied by the Mayor and Council
under the annual levy. He shall hold his office for one year from the date
of his bond herein recorded and until his successor is appointed and has
qualified by taking the oath of office and filing his approved bond. For
the collection of the annual levy placed in his hands for collection he shall
have a second year after the said first year has expired, and on his peti-
tion the Circuit Court for Worcester County may extend his time six
months longer to complete his collection. He shall make monthly settle-
ments with the town treasurer for all town taxes collected by him under
the annual levy during the previous months, and such settlement shall be
entered in full in the minutes of the Council; on or before the first day
of January next succeeding a levy he shall make final settlement with the
town treasurer of so much of the annual levy as is charged to or due from
persons who are assessed with personal property only upon the assessment
books of the town; on or before the first day of March next after the levy
he shall pay over to the town treasurer not less than two-thirds of the
entire annual levy, and he shall also return a partial list of insolvents;
and on or before the first day of September next thereafter, the same
being about one year after the levy, he shall turn in his final list of in-

solvents and shall make a full and complete settlement with the treasurer