ART. 7.] WESTMINSTER. 773

izing, and in construction of sewers in such streets in said city
of Westminster, as the said mayor and common council may
order and direct.

1884, ch. 227.

251. The said mayor and common council are authorized and
required, in each and every year, to levy and collect a special tax,
not exceeding ten cents on every one hundred dollars worth of
the taxable property of all kinds and description liable to assess-
ment and taxation within the corporate limits of the city of
Westminster; to pay the interest on the outstanding bonds, by
them issued under the provisions of sections 248-249, as the same
shall fall due, and to gradually redeem and retire such bonds until
they shall all have been redeemed and retired; and the proceeds
of such tax shall be paid to the mayor and common council, and
forthwith by them applied to the redemption of said bonds, when
and as soon as they shall become redeemable; and the said taxes
are inviolably pledged to the payment of the interest and prin-
cipal of said bonds.

P. L. L., (1860,) art. 7, see. 120.

252. Any justice of the peace, resident in said city, upon com-
plaint made before him of the violation of any ordinance of said
corporation, shall issue process, in the name of the mayor and
common council, to recover the fine or penalty imposed for the
violation of such ordinance, against the party offending, and may
hear and determine the matter as in any case arising under the laws
of the State, and shall receive the same fees therefor.

Ibid. sec. 181.

253. In default of payment of any fine or penalty imposed
by him for a violation of any ordinance of-the corporation, the
justice may commit the party fined to the county jail for a
period not exceeding ten days; and the sheriff of Carroll county
shall receive and confine the party, so committed, in the same
manner as other prisoners, and shall be entitled to the same com-
pensation therefor.