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hundred and fifty dollars in any case as to them may appear right, and
in default of the payment of any fine imposed, they may provide for the
imprisonment of the offender for a period not exceeding thirty days, or
until such is paid, which imprisonment may be in the town lockup or in
the Allegany County Jail.

P. L. L. (1888), Art. 1, sec. 162. 1870, ch. 77.

229. The said corporation shall not issue any device, token, note, cer-
tificate or evidence of debt to be used as currency.

P. L. L. (1888), Art. 1, sec. 163. 1878, ch. 255.

230. In cases in which any person shall be found guilty of violating
any ordinance of the town, it shall and may be lawful for the Mayor or
any Justice of the Peace trying said cause, upon conviction of the offender,
to impose the fine prescribed by the particular ordinance under which
said person is tried, and upon failure or refusal of the party thus con-
victed to pay such fine and costs, to commit him to the town lock-up for
a time not exceeding five days, or to the county jail for a period not exceed-
ing thirty days.

1896, ch. 358, sec. 163A. 1927, ch. 195, sec. 163A.

231. The Mayor and Councilmen shall cause to be made and main-
tained a registration of the legal voters of said town, and the registra-
tion shall be made under the direction of the Mayor and Councilmen dur-
ing the month of March, in the year 1928, and biennially thereafter and
the registration so made under the authority of the law shall, together
with such additional changes or alterations as may be or become neces-
sary, constitute such registration. Said registration shall be made and
corrected in the manner provided in the general registration law of the
State, and shall specify the residence of the voters on each street, lane and
alley, and such registration shall be essential to the right of voting at
any election under the Charter, but shall not be conclusive evidence of
such right to vote; said Mayor and Councilmen shall on or before the
second Monday in February in the year 1928, and biennially thereafter,
elect two persons of opposite politics to act as Officers of Registration,
who shall sit as Officers of Registration at the Council Chamber not less
than three days, of eight hours each, commencing on the third Monday
of March, in the year 1928, and biennially thereafter, and ten days' pub-
lic notice of such sitting shall be given by advertisement in some news-
paper published either in Frostburg or Cumberland.

1896, ch. 358, sec. 163B.

232. Said Mayor and Councilmen shall have the power to make con-
tracts exempting from town taxation the real and personal property or
capital stock of any manufacturing company desiring to locate in said
town and as an inducement to locate therein; provided, that such contract
exempting the same shall be limited as to time, and shall not exceed
ten years.