ART. 16. ] PRINCE GEORGE'S COUNTY.

and belong to and become part of the income of said
corporation, to be by them appropriated for the im-
provement of roads within the limits of said corpora-
tion.

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203. The commissioners may by ordinance provide
for levying and collecting annually a tax of fifty cents
on every dog, and one dollar on every bitch, within
said town; and the killing of every dog and bitch,
whose owner shall refuse to pay said tax, or who shall
fail to do so within one month from the time he or she
shall be called upon to do so.

Ibid. s. 20.
Tax on dogs.

204. The commissioners may, by ordinance, prohibit
the firing of guns and pistols in said town, and may
prohibit the tumultuous and irregular meetings of idle
and dissolute persons, and shall give general directions
to the bailiff to disperse the same by fair and lawful
means.

Ibid. s. 21.
Tumultuous
meetings, &c.

205. Said commissioners may pass ordinances to pre-
vent horses and swine from running at large within the
limits of said town.

Ibid s. 22.
Horses not to
run at large.

206. No person shall permit his or her hog or hogs
to run at large within the limits of said town, and if
any hog or hogs shall be found running at large therein,
the bailiff shall forthwith seize and impound the same,
and shall immediately give notice thereof by public
advertisement, and if the owner shall not, within three

Ibid s. 23.
Bailiff to im-
pound hogs
running at
large.

days thereafter, pay said bailiff fifty cents for every day
of impounding any hog, the bailiff shall sell the same
at public sale, and after deducting one dollar for every
hog, shall pay the purchase money to the treasurer of
said town.

Penalty.

207. On the same day on which commissioners are
to be elected under this act, and on every first Monday
in April, in each and every year thereafter, one person,
a legal voter in said town, shall be elected by a ma-
jority of the voters of said town, as treasurer of said
corporation, whose duty it shall be to keep an account
of the receipts and disbursements of the funds of the
corporation in a well-bound book, to be provided by
the commissioners for that purpose, and shall annually

Ibid s. 21.
Election of
treasurer.