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ART. 7.] UNION BRIDGE. 753
and may be collected by judgment and execution in the same
manner and with the same fees to the officers as provided for in
cases of small debts; and the said fines, penalties and forfeitures
so received shall be paid and delivered to the treasurer of the
town, to be applied to and for the use and benefit thereof; and
if the offence shall be a breach of the peace or disturbing the
quiet and good order of the town by being drunk, or by riotous,
immoral or obscene conduct, or violating any of the ordinances
intended to secure the safety of the lives or property of any of
the inhabitants of the town, the person so convicted may, in
addition thereto, be committed to the Carroll county jail, or to
some place of confinement provided therefor within the cor-
porate limits of the town, by the said mayor or justice, until
the fine and costs are paid, but not exceeding ten days for any
one offence; and the mayor may, at any time when it shall seem
to him just and proper, discharge the person so committed; and
if the person so convicted shall be a minor, the same proceedings,
in every respect, for the collection of fines, shall be had against
the parent or guardian, or other person in whose custody or
tinder whose control the said minor may be; and any person con-
victed under the provisions of this sub-title of this article, or
the laws and ordinances of the town shall have the right to
appeal to the next circuit court for Carroll county, upon giving
bond forthwith to prosecute said appeal, or bail for his or her
personal appearance at said court.
1880, ch. 434.
189. The common council, with the approval of the mayor,
shall annually appoint a treasurer, who shall have power to col-
lect the taxes levied by them, as county and State taxes are col-
lected, or as the mayor and common council may by ordinance
adopt for the benefit of the corporation; provided, that the said
treasurer shall not be required to call personally on the taxpayers
to collect said taxes, but shall give public notice of the time when
they are due and payable, and the place in the town where they
can be paid; and may distrain therefor at any time after sixty
days from the date they shall become due and payable; and the
said treasurer shall keep an accurate account of the receipts and
disbursements of the funds of the corporation in a well-bound
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