2052 WICOMICO COUNTY. [ART. 23,

days' notice of the time and place of work, and any person failing
to do the work, or to send the substitute, shall pay one dollar for
each day so neglected, for the use of the commissioners of said
town.

1888, ch. 167.

34. Any person failing to comply with the preceding section
shall be guilty of a misdemeanor, and may be arrested and
brought before some justice of the peace for Wicomico county
upon a warrant issued by said justice in the name of the State of
Maryland, and upon proof of such failure, be fined one dollar for
each day so neglected, and the costs of the suit, and in default of
payment may be committed to the jail of said county for five
days.

Ibid.

35. The said commissioners may establish building lines, grant
building privileges, and pass ordinances for the improvements of
the sidewalks along the streets, giving directions to persons own-
ing property bordering on said sidewalk concerning the improve-
ments or repairs of the sidewalk; and if the owners of said
property shall refuse or fail to obey said ordinances or directions,
the said commissioners may have the improvements executed and
collect the bills and costs from said property or persons in the
same way as debts are collected in this State, and the cost of said
improvements shall be a lien on said property.

Ibid.

36. The commissioners of said town may annually levy a tax
for the expenses of the corporation upon the taxable property
within the limits of the town, real and personal, and the same
shall be collected by a collector appointed by the commissioners,
for the purpose, whose compensation shall be fixed by the com-
missioners, and who shall give bond in such amount as they shall
prescribe; and the said collector, in collecting the said taxes, shall
have full power to distrain for the same in the same manner as
the collectors of the State and county taxes have, but said tax
shall not exceed twenty cents on the one hundred dollars for any
one year, and the basis of taxation shall be the assessment as for
county purposes.