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PRINCE GEORGE'S COUNTY. [ART. 16.

imprisonment for any one offence shall not exceed five
days.

Ibid. s. 5.
Tax on dogs.

Sub-Sec. 5. The commissioners of said village are
authorized to levy a reasonable tax on dogs and bitches
belonging to or kept by the inhabitants of the vil-
lage, to be recovered and collected as other taxes are,
and to impose reasonable fines and penalties to restrain
dogs and bitches from running at large in said village,
and to authorize and to compel the bailiff to kill any
dog or bitch, whose owner cannot be ascertained, or
who shall refuse or neglect to pay the taxes, fines or
penalties imposed under this section.

Ibid, s 6.
Police magis-
trates.

Sub-Sec. 6. The commissioners of said village are
authorized and empowered to appoint annually one
or more police magistrates, who shall act as conser-
vators of the peace, and who shall impose fines, penal-
ties and forfeitures for the breach of any ordinance
passed by the commissioners of said village, and whose
powers shall be the same as justices of the peace for
said county, and the commissioners of the village are

Bailiffs.

further authorized to appoint one or more bailiffs, who
shall have the same authority and power within said
corporation as attaches to constables.

Ibid s. 7.
Taxes.

Sub-Sec. 7. The commissioners of said village of
Bladensburg are authorized and empowered to levy an-
nually such taxes upon the assessable property within

Proviso.

said corporation as may seem to them necessary; pro-
vided, that the amount of taxation for any one year
shall not exceed thirty cents in the one hundred dollars,
which tax may be collected by a collector appointed by
the commissioners, and in case of neglect or failure to

How collected.

pay such taxes, they shall be collected in the mode pre-
scribed for the collection of county taxes.

Ibid s 8
Paving of foot-
ways.

Sub-Sec. 8. The commissioners of said village are
authorized to direct any or all of the footways within
said village to be laid off, levelled and paved with
such material as may to a majority of them seem best,
and one-fourth of the expenses of such work and im-

Expenses; how
borne.

provement shall be borne by the owner or owners of
the property before which the same shall be directed