ART. 16. ] PRINCE GEORGE'S COUNTY.

warrant, judgment and commitment to the public jail
of Prince George's county, or in such place of confine-
ment as said board of commissioners shall establish
within the limits of said town — in the same manner
that commitments are made for fines and penalties im-
posed by the circuit court of this state — on conviction
for misdemeanor, but the said commissioners, or a ma-
jority of them, shall have power at any time to remit
or release the said fines, penalties and forfeitures and
costs or any part thereof at their discretion, but any
party who shall be fined or subjected to any penalty
or forfeiture may, within five days after the same shall

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be imposed and judgment recovered, supercede or stay
the same for thirty days by giving ample personal secu-
rity to the justice of the peace, and the said fines, pen-
alties and forfeitures, shall thereafter be collected as
small debts are now collected before a justice of the
peace.

Appeal.

195. The commissioners may, as often as deemed
advisable, cause an assessment to be made of all real
and personal property within the limits of the corpo-
ration, by a person to be appointed and paid by them,
which assessment shall not exceed the present assess-
ment of the same property for county purposes except
where improvements made thereon increase its value to
. such an extent as to entitle such property to re-assess-
ment between the periods of county assessment, and

Ibid c. 12.
Assessment.

the commissioners may levy a tax thereon not exceed-
ing in any one year twenty (20) cents in the hundred
dollars worth of assessable property, which said tax

Tax.

shall be collected and paid to the treasurer by the col-
lector appointed by said commissioners, who shall have
power to distrain therefor as the collector of public
county assessments has to distrain for the same, and the
said commissioners shall fix the term of office, amount
of bond, and compensation of such collector.

Collector

196. No loan or indebtedness shall be created under
this act of incorporation, except the following: And
said judges of election shall submit to a vote of the
qualified voters of said town, at the first election held

Ibid. s. 13.
No loan to be
created.