ART. 1. ] FROSTBURG——HOOP-POLES AND TIMBER. 61

1878, ch 255.

163. In cases in which any person shall be found guilty of
violating any ordinance of the town, it shall and may be lawful
for the mayor or any justice of the peace trying said cause,
upon conviction of the offender, to impose the fine prescribed
by the particular ordinance under which said person is tried,
and upon failure or refusal of the party thus convicted to pay
such fine and costs, to commit him to the town lock-up for a
time not exceeding five days, or to the county jail for a period,
not exceeding thirty days.

1888, ch. 136.

164. The revised, codified and printed ordinances of the mayor
and councilmen of Frostburg, adopted by said mayor and coun-
cilmen on the tenth day of August, eighteen hundred and eighty-
five, are declared valid and binding, and the printed copy thereof
issued by authority and under the sanction of said body, shall be
legal evidence of the passage and of the contents of the ordi-
nances contained therein in any court of law or equity in this
State; and the said mayor and councilmen may at any time
provide by ordinance for the codification or re-codification of
such ordinances as have been or may hereafter be passed by them,
and for the printing of such codification or re-codification
thereof; and the printed copy thereof, issued by authority and
under the sanction of said body, shall be legal evidence of the
passage of said ordinances and the contents thereof in any court
of law or equity in this State. 1

HOOP-POLES AND TIMBER.

P L L., (1860, 1 art. 1. sec. 89.

165. If any person shall cut down, or cause or induce any
person to cut down, any timber or tree of a size not less than
those commonly used for hoop-poles in Allegany county, with,
intent to steal the same, or any part thereof, every person so-
offending, his aiders and abettors having knowledge of such
intent to steal, shall be adjudged guilty of felony, and shall be
sentenced as for feloniously stealing goods or chattels, to the

1 Sections 93-96 (ante pages 42 and 43) are equally applicable to Frostburg.