ART. 22.] SMITHSBURG. 2017

1867, ch. 819.

358. Any justice of the peace residing within the town, or
the burgess or assistant burgess, may take cognizance of all viola-
tions of the ordinances of said corporation, and upon information
may cause all persons offending against them to be brought
before him for trial, and if convicted, may fine the party not
exceeding ten dollars, and in default of payment of the fine and
costs, may commit the offender to the county jail for a term not
exceeding twenty days; but any person convicted may appeal
from the judgment of the justice of the peace, or burgess or
assistant burgess, to the circuit conrt for Washington county, and
the corporation shall be liable for all jail fees of persons so
committed.

SHERIFF.

1880, ch. 303.

359. The sheriff of Washington county shall be entitled to
forty cents per day for keeping each prisoner that may be con-
fined in the jail of said county, and shall be allowed for necessary
fuel for the jail and house attached thereto such sum as the
county commissioners may deem right and proper; and the
county commissioners shall levy upon the assessable property of
the county a sum sufficient to pay for keeping the prisoners, and
for the necessary fuel aforesaid; but it shall not be hereafter
lawful for the sheriff to make or collect any charge for receiving,
in or releasing from the jail in said county any prisoners.

F. L. L., (1860,) art. 21, sec. 298.

360. He shall be entitled to fifty cents each for the delivery
to the trustees of the poor of certificates of their appointment.

Ibid sec. 294.

361. The county commissioners shall not allow or order the
payment of any account for paper or stationery for said sheriff.

SMITHSBURG.

P. L. L., (1860,) art. 21, sec. 295. 1888, ch. 313.

362. The inhabitants of Smithsburg, in Washington county,
are created a corporation by the name of " The Burgess and Com-
missioners of Smithsburg," and by that name shall have perpetual
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