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of any of the laws or ordinances of the corporation, according to
the tenor of the commitment, and in the same manner and under
the same regulations as persons committed for a violation of laws
of the State.

1884, ch. 63.

347. All fines imposed by virtue of any law or ordinance of
the said village, may be recovered before the president of the
board of commissioners or a justice of the peace, in the same
manner as small debts, and subject to the same right of appeal.

Ibid.

348. All fines, fees and costs shall go to the corporation, and
shall be appropriated as directed by ordinance.

Ibid.

349. In cases in which any person shall be found guilty of
violating any ordinance of the corporation, it shall and may be
lawful for the president of the board of commissioners trying
said cause, upon the conviction of the offender, to impose the fine
prescribed by the particular ordinance under which said person
was tried, and upon failure or refusal of the party convicted
thereof to pay such fines and costs, to commit him to the village
jail, or to the jail of said county for the time prescribed by the
said ordinance, unless he shall pay such fines and costs before the
day limited in such commitment, in which case the president of
the board of commissioners or justice of the peace who has
directed such commitment, shall issue his order to the sheriff of
said county to release such person; but such commitment shall
not continue for more than thirty days.

Ibid.

350. In all appeals from the president of the board of
commissioners to the circuit court for Frederick county, the
parties appealing shall give bond, with at least two sureties, who
shall be approved by the president, in a penalty double the
amount of the fine imposed and the costs which may accrue on
such appeal, which penalty shall be adjudged by the president,
and conditioned that if the party appeah'ng shall not prosecute
such appeal with effect at the next term of the circuit court for
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