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may be able to obtain a full and proper information. It shall be the duty
of the policeman to collect the dog tax above provided for and to account
monthly to the town clerk for all sums so collected, and it shall be the
duty of the policemen to make complaint before a Justice of the Peace
against any person or persons harboring a dog within the said town with-
out having first obtained and paid for such license. The Mayor and Coun-
cil shall have full authority to pass such ordinances as they may deem
proper for promoting and carrying out the execution and enforcing the
provisions of this section, and may, if they think proper, provide that all
dogs running at large upon the streets of the town shall wear tags in evi-
dence of the payment of said tax, and may also, if in their judgment
public safety demands such action at any time, require by ordinances that
all dogs running at large upon the streets in said town shall be properly
and securely muzzled, and may enforce their ordinances by any of the
fines or penalties within limits hereafter set upon them; and, beside may
provide that any dog found running at large upon the streets of said
town contrary to the provisions of the ordinance or ordinances shall be
taken up and shot by the policeman.

1916, ch. 495, sec. 240. 1920 Code, sec. 276. 1927, ch. 446, sec. 276.
219. The Mayor and Council once in each year shall make a general
levy of taxes on the assessable property of the town to meet the corporate
expenses, requirements and purposes of the town, such taxes not to exceed
the rate of fifty cents (50c). on every one hundred dollars ($100.00) of
assessed property, for the current expenses alone, together with such fur-
ther taxes as are authorized and required by the several Acts of the Gen-
eral Assembly of Maryland authorizing the issue of town bonds of Poco-
moke City, it being hereby expressly provided that nothing in this Act
shall in any way affect any Act authorizing any bond issue for Pocomoke
City all of which Acts shall remain in full force and effect; and such
levy shall be made in each year between the first day of August and the
first day of September; and whenever the Mayor and Council shall make
the yearly levy they shall cause to be made out a list of the parties charge-
able with the taxes levied, together with the aggregate assessment of each
person in real and personal property, and they shall add thereto a copy
of the ordinance, resolution or rule of the Mayor and Council by which
the said levy of taxes was made and the rate of the said levy, signed by
the Mayor and President of the Town Council and with the corporate
seal thereto affixed, and they shall deliver the same to the town clerk of
said town and it shall be a sufficient warrant to him to collect the said
taxes; provided, that if on account of death or from any other cause the
Mayor and Council should be unable to make the levy before the first
day of September in any year they may make the same later, but not
later than the fifteenth of December; the taxes so levied shall become due
and payable on the first day of the next January after the day on which
the said levy is made, and from and after that date on which they so fall
due they shall bear interest; and the following discounts shall be allowed: