1540 MONTGOMERY COUNTY. [ART. 16.

1888, ch. 339.

198. The bailiff shall have the same fees for making dis-
tresses or levying execution for taxes as are allowed county col-
lectors, and for making arrests or serving process for violation of
any ordinance of the corporation the same fees as are allowed
constables for similar services; and when the bailiff wilfully fails
to discharge any duty of his office he may, in addition to the
remedy on his bond, be fined by the mayor in his discretion, not
exceeding ten dollars for any one offence, for the payment of
which said fine his bond shall be responsible.

Ibid.

199. All fines, penalties and forfeitures imposed by this sub-
title of this article, or by any ordinance of the council, may be
collected in the name of the mayor and council, before the
mayor or any justice of the peace, in the same manner as small
debts are collected, and the delinquent shall stand committed to
the county jail until the same are paid, with costs.

Ibid.

200. The council shall have authority to incur a debt not ex-
ceeding five thousand dollars in excess of the annual revenue of
the town, and shall, whenever any such debt is created, provide
for the payment thereof by issuing certificates of indebtedness at
such rate of interest as the council may deem advisable; and shall
be payable within five years, in the discretion of the council.

Ibid.

201. The public buildings and other county property in said
town shall not be subject to taxation, and shall continue to the
uses to which the same are now allotted; the judges of the
several courts, shall continue to hold their courts in the court
house as heretofore; the commissioners for the county, justices of
the peace, sheriff, constables and all other county and State officers
shall have, hold and exercise their offices and jurisdiction in
said town; and the county commissioners shall appropriate
annually two-thirds of the tax levied upon the assessable prop-
erty within the corporate limits of the town, for the improve-