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CAROLINE COUNTY. [ART. 6.

failure of such duty, the board of commissioners
may, and it is made their duty to repair the same,
and the cost of such repairing so done by them
shall be assessed by said commissioners on said
property, and collected by way of distress, after
giving ten days' notice of the sale of said prop-
erty, posted in five of the most public places in
said town by the bailiff.

Ibid, s 14.
Power to sum-
mon persons to
testify, &c.

To settle with
treasurer.

63. The president and commissioners shall have
power and authority to summon persons before them
to testify in any matter ; to impose fines not to ex-
ceed tea dollars in any case, and penalties to issue
attachments for persons failing to obey their process,
and commit to jail any person who shall fail or refuse
to pay any fine imposed by them upon such person ;
they shall settle with the treasurer, and he with
them, on or before the second Monday in March an-
nually, and cause the receipts and expenditures for
the past year to be published in at least one newspa-
per published in said town, on or before the fourth
Saturday of March following their settlement; and
should the commissioners or officers of said town

Penalty for
neglect of duty
by commis-
sioners, &c.

neglect or refuse to perform any of the duties en-
joined upon them in this act they shall be liable to
conviction in the circuit court for Caroline county,
and finable in a sum of not more than twenty dollars
in the discretion of the court.

Ibid. s. 15.
Hitching
places.

64. The board of commissioners shall erect and
keep in good repair at least four good hitching-places
(commonly called horse-racks) on the public grounds,
between the school-house and Gay street, for the pur-
pose of hitching horses, each of said hitching-places
to be at least thirty feet in length.

In force from February 8, 1866.

DOVER BRIDGE.

1865, c. 128 enacts the following :

1865, c. 128, s. 1.
Privilege of
bridge.

65. The inhabitants of Caroline county shall have
the privilege of passing over Dover Bridge, being