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QUEEN ANNE'S COUNTY. [ART. 17.
town, and cause surveys and plats thereof to be made,
and have the same filed and recorded in the clerk's
office for Queen Anne's county, for reference and safe
keeping; and the said commissioners may pass all laws
and ordinances necessary for grading, regulating, pav-
ing and repairing the footways in the streets, lanes and
alleys of said town, and impose a tax on any lot or lots
fronting on any street, lane or alley for the purpose, of
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Paring, &c,
streets, &c.
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grading, regulating, paving and repairing the footways
in front thereof, or compel by fine or otherwise the
owner or owners of any lot or lots to pave or repair
the footways in front thereof, agreeably to the ordi-.
nances to be passed by them, and shall have power to
open and establish new streets, lanes and alleys, and
to straighten and widen old streets, lanes and alleys,
and to provide for the payment of damages and ex-
penses incurred by opening, widening or straightening
the streets, lanes and alleys, as aforesaid, by levying
and assessing the same generally upon the whole of the
assessable property of the town or upon the property
of persons to be benefitted thereby.
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Ibid. s. 10.
Justices to be
conservators of
peace.
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171. The justices of the peace resident in said town
are hereby declared to be conservators of the peace of
said town, and it shall be their duty to order the arrest
of any person or persons found breaking the peace or
disturbing the quiet and order of said town, or viola-
ting any of the ordinances made by the commissioners
for securing the safety of the property or lives of the
inhabitants of said town, and shall have power to re-
quire any person or persons so offending to give secu-
rity to keep the peace, or in default thereof, may com-
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Power to com-
mit.
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mit such person or persons to the county jail for not
more than forty-eight hours, and in addition thereto,
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Fines.
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may impose a fine on such person or persons of not
more than five dollars, to be collected by execution,
as officers' fees now are, and such fines to go to the
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How fines re-
covered.
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benefit of said town; all fines, penalties and forfeitures
under this act and not otherwise provided for, shall be
recovered before a justice of the peace" for said county,
resident in said town, in the name of the commission-
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