420 CITY OF BALTIMORE. [ART. 4.

this article, and the receipt of such sum by the register shall be
deemed a full and sufficient discharge from the requirement of
giving such bond.

P. L. L., (1860,) art. 4, sec. 256.

418. If any alien passenger in such vessel shall be suffered to
land therefrom at any place within the distance of fifty miles
from said city, with the intent to proceed thereto otherwise than
in said vessel, the master or commander thereof shall forfeit and
pay for every such person the sum of one hundred dollars, unless
within forty-eight hours after the entry of the vessel, the owner or
consignee shall give the bonds or pay the commutation money
aforesaid.

Ibid. sec. 257.

419. All or any of the said penalties and forfeitures, as well
as the said commutation money, may be sued for in the name of
the mayor and city council of Baltimore, before any justice of the
peace, in the same manner and subject to the same rules and pro-
cess, and the right of appeal as provided in cases of small debts.

Ibid sec 258.

420. The mayor may compound for or remit the said penalties
and forfeitures, and payments and recoveries, or any of them
either before or after suing for the same, upon such terms as the
circumstances of the case may in his judgment require.

Ibid sec 259.

421. The mayor and register shall pay over to the trustees for
the poor of Baltimore city, semi-annually, three-fifths of all sums
of money arising from commutation by owners or consignees of
vessels as aforesaid, which shall be appropriated by said trustees
to the use of the city of Baltimore, for the purpose of supporting
the foreign paupers of the said city, and the remaining two-fifths
shall be paid to the Hibernian society of Baltimore, and the Ger-
man society of Maryland, in the proportions mentioned in the
next succeeding section.

Ibid. sec. 260.

422. All money received by the mayor or register for penal-
ties and forfeitures imposed by this sub-title of this article, shall