1788 SOMERSET COUNTY. [ART. 20.

provide that if any swine, geese or other animals be found going
at large within the limits of said town, they shall be impounded
by the bailiffs, and sold to pay the costs of impounding and keep-
ing, and a reasonable fine for such offence; provided, the owner
of said swine, geese or other animals shall not come forward and
pay or tender all reasonable costs that have accrued in the im-
pounding and keeping such swine, geese or other animals, as well
as such fine as may be imposed by law.

1886, ch. 506.

88. All persons charged with offences against any of the pro-
visions of this sub-title of this article, or against any of the ordi-
nances of said commissioners, for the regulation and good govern-
ment of the town, shall be tried before a justice of the peace of

Crisfield district, who may fine the offender, if he shall be
adjudged guilty, such sums as are prescribed by said ordinances,
not exceeding the amount authorized by section 66, and said
person may be proceeded against by a summons for debt, as
email debts are recovered, or by a warrant in the name of the
State of Maryland, for the use of the commissioners of Crisfield,
in a proceeding criminal in form as well as nature; and the said
justice in such cases as are begun by warrant, may commit the
party adjudged to be guilty of any of such offences to the town
jail till the fine and costs imposed therefor shall be paid; and
said fine shall in either case be paid to the said commissioners for
the use of the corporation; but said commissioners shall have
power to remit the said fine or imprisonment, or any part thereof,

on cause shown; and either party may appeal in any case to the
circuit court for Somerset county; and the laws relating to insol-
vent debtors shall be applicable to such cases on application to a
justice of the peace of said district where the party fined has
been confined in jail for such a period as would entitle him to his
discharge under said laws, from the county jail, if confined therein
by an order of the circuit court; and said party, not having been
sooner discharged by order of the commissioners, and being in-
solvent, may be discharged.

Ibid.

89. The commissioners, at their first meeting after an election,
shall elect a president, who shall preside over their deliberations