2024 WASHINGTON COUNTY. [ART. 22.

provide for the imprisonment of the offender for a period not
exceeding thirty days, or until the fine be paid, or sentence said
offender to hard labor for a sufficient length of time until said
labor will satisfy the fine and costs.

1888, ch. 313.

375. The burgess and commissioners shall have power to
compel all turnpike companies whose roads, or any part thereof,
lie within the limits of the town, to perform all the duties and
obligations imposed upon them by their respective charters, or
by the laws of the State of Maryland, upon such parts thereof as
are within the limits of the town; and shall have power to enter
into arrangements with the said turnpike companies in relation
to the grading, paving and repairing of the parts of their respec-
tive roads lying within the corporate limits of the town.

Ibid.

376. The turnpike company, or companies, owning roads run-
ning into the town may cede to the town such parts of their roads
as lie within the limits of the town, upon such terms as may be
agreed upon between the burgess and commissioners and said
turnpike company or companies; and the same, when ceded,
shall in all respects be subject to the same regulations as the
public streets of the town.

Ibid.

377. The burgess and commissioners shall have the right to
condemn the parts of all public highways lying within the limits
of the town, for public use, and to open, widen, straighten or close
up the same, in whole or in part; provided, free access is allowed
to all public roads running to the limits of the town through the
highways of the town.

Ibid.

378. Before any policeman, regular or special, shall act as
euch, he shall take and subscribe before the burgess the following
oath: " I do swear or affirm that I will, to the best of my ability,
discharge the duties of policeman within the police limits of the
corporation of Smithsburg, without fear, favor or partiality."
The policeman so appointed for the enforcement of ordinances of
the town and the preservation of its peace and good order, shall
have all the powers of constables; and any person resisting a