ART. 7.] TANEYTOWN—UNION BRIDGE. 745

of the ordinances intended to secure the safety of the lives or
property of any of the inhabitants of said town, or licensing
traveling showmen or exhibitors, the person so convicted may be
committed to the jail of Carroll county, or to some place of con-
finement provided within the corporate limits of said town, by
said burgess or justice of the peace, until the fine and costs are
said, or for ten days, whichever shall first occur; and the bur-
gess or justice of the peace who committed such offender may,
when it seems to him proper, order such offender to be discharged
before the expiration of ten days; and the sheriff of said county
shall be entitled to be paid by said corporation the same fees as
he receives for keeping prisoners under the laws of the State; and
no fine imposed upon any offender shall be less than one dollar
nor more than ten dollars.

1888, ch. 399.

165. It shall not be lawful for the Frederick and Pennsyl-
vania Line railroad company to obstruct the street in Taneytown,
over which its trains pass, longer than five minutes at any one
time, nor to allow any of its engines to stop longer than five
minutes, less than seventy-five yards, or its cars less than thirty
yards from the street in said town over which said railroad passes,
except cars placed upon switches for loading or unloading.

Ibid.

166. Any conductor of said Frederick and Pennsylvania Line
railroad company who shall violate the provisions of the aforegoing
section shall be liable to, and upon conviction thereof before
any justice of the peace, shall pay a fine of twenty dollars, to be
paid to the county commissioners for the general uses of the
county.

UNION BRIDGE.

1880, ch. 434

167. The inhabitants of the town of Union Bridge, in Carroll
county, are a body corporate by the name of "The Mayor and
Common Council of the Town of Union Bridge," and by that
name shall be able in law to sue and be sued, plead and be
impleaded in any court of law or equity, and shall have per-
petual succession, and may purchase and hold real, personal