1150 FREDERICK COUNTY. [ART. 11.

P. L. L., (1860,) art. 11, sec. 143.

223. No ordinance of said city, except as herein specially pro-
vided, shall impose a fine of more than twenty dollars for any
one offence, or authorize a commitment to the workhouse for
more than thirty days at one time.

Ibid. sec. 145.

224. All fines shall go to the corporation, and shall be ap-
propriated as directed by ordinance.

Ibid. sec. 146.

225. No ordinance of the corporation shall be binding on any
person who does not reside in the said city, until the same shall
have been published in some newspaper in said city, except in
case of wilful and intentional violation of such ordinance, after
notice thereof; and the said corporation shall pass no ordinance
contrary to law.

Ibid. sec. 147.

226. The inhabitants of said city, and all persons holding
property therein, shall be competent witnesses in all cases arising
under this sub-title of this article, or the ordinances of said city,
if exempt from all other exceptions than that of interest as in-
habitants of the said city, or members of the said corporation.

1867, ch. 96.

227. The mayor and aldermen shall have full power and
authority to erect one or more markets within the corporate
limits of the city, and to purchase all such real estate as may be
necessary for such purpose, and receive deeds for the same.

Ibid.

228. In case the mayor and aldermen and the parties owning
said real estate cannot agree upon the price of such real estate, or
the parties owning the same shall be infants, idiots or lunatics, or
absent from the county or State, or femes covert, or trustees
having no beneficial interest therein, or cestuis que trust, or shall
labor under any disability, then, upon application being made by
the mayor of said city to any justice of the peace of the State of
Maryland, in and for Frederick county, the said justice shall