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have priority over all other liens of whatsoever character, except for un-
paid taxes due the United States, the State of Maryland, or any of the
counties of the State of Maryland; and this remedy may be applied to
the collection of all taxes already levied by said Mayor and Council of
Ocean City as well as those to be levied after the passage hereof; and in
each such actions including actions before Justices of the Peace an appear-
ance fee of five dollars to the plaintiff's attorney shall be taxed as a part
of the plaintiff's costs.

See secs. 67 and 68 of this Article for payments to be made to Ocean City by the
County Commissioners.

Bassett v. Ocean City, 118 Md. 116.

1898, ch. 528. 1920 Code, sec. 172. 1924, ch. 464.

146. The Mayor and City Council shall pass ordinances to preserve
the health of the city and to abate nuisances to the inhabitants thereof;
and for that purpose their jurisdiction and control shall extend beyond
the western limits of the town to the middle of Synepuxent Bay; to pre-
vent, restrain and regulate the running at large of horses, cattle, swine
and geese within the limits of said city; to prohibit the firing of guns or
pistols, and to regulate the shooting of fire-crackers and fireworks of every
description within said city; to prohibit and disperse tumultuous and dis-
orderly meeting of idle, dissolute and drunken persons; to provide for
working and mending public streets; to open, close, alter and widen the
streets, lanes and alleys of said city; to provide for the payment of the
salaries of the police; to provide for the erection of boardwalks upon the
sidewalks of said city; to establish building lines and to control and regulate
the erection of all buildings; to purchase and use fire engines and other
equipment for extinguishing fires; to provide for the regulation, good gov-
ernment and improvement of the city; they shall have control and super-
intendence over the public property of the city, and the franchises and
the easements of the public streets of said city shall be vested completely
in them, with power to grant the same whenever to them the interest of
the public shall demand; they may enforce the observance of any ordi-
nances passed by them, under such penalties and forfeitures as they may
deem proper, not exceeding twenty-five dollars for any one offense; and
all such penalties, fines and forfeitures may be recovered before a justice
of the peace by a warrant and judgment; in case of failure or refusal to
pay the same, the party so fined shall be committed for a period not ex-
ceeding ten days, to the public jail of said county, in the same manner
that commitments are made for fines imposed by the Circuit Court of this
State and convictions for misdemeanors; but the Mayor shall have power
to remit at any time the said fines, penalties or forfeitures and costs, or
any part thereof, at his discretion; provided, however, that any party feel-
ing himself aggrieved by such fines, penalties or forfeitures, shall have
his appeal to the Circuit Court, as appeals are now regulated by law, and
the fines and forfeitures imposed and collected by any one of the provi-
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