2006 WASHINGTON COUNTY. [ART. 22.

P. L. L , (1860,) art 81, sec. 224.

311. If the owner of any lot, in front of which such paving
or repairing shall be directed to be done, shall not reside in said
town, the tenant or person occupying or having charge of said
lot shall cause the same to be done, and the money expended
thereon by such person, under the ordinance of the corporation,
shall be allowed by the owner of such lot, and deducted from the
rent then due or to become due; and if such owner or tenant
shall refuse or neglect to repair or pave said footway, the burgesa
and commissioners may cause the same to be done, and collect
the expense thereof, with costs, by distress and sale of such lot.

Ibid, sec 225.

312. All fines and forfeitures, under the ordinances of said
corporation, shall be recoverable before the burgess or before a
justice of the peace as small debts; but no fine or forfeiture shall
exceed the sum of twenty dollars for any one offence.

1870, ch. 69.

313. The burgess or any justice of the peace, when imposing
a fine, penalty or forfeiture for the violation of any by-law or
ordinance of said corporation, shall have power to commit the
person convicted, to the public jail, or any appropriate place of
confinement within the corporation, which the burgess and com-
missioners may provide, if said offender shall fail or refuse to pay
the fine, penalty or forfeiture and costs, there to remain until the
same shall be paid or until discharged, as hereinafter provided; and
the sheriff of the county shall receive and safely keep such person
according to the tenor of the commitment, and shall be entitled
to his usual fees therefor; and the burgess or justice who may

have directed such commitment may order any person so com-
mitted to be discharged; provided, such commitment shall not be
for more than thirty days; and the corporation shall be liable to
all jail fees of persons so committed.

Ibid.

314. The burgess and commissioners shall have power to ap-
point a constable for said town, with such compensation as may
be allowed by law; he shall be a collector of taxes imposed by
the corporation, and shall have power to collect the same by dis-