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LAWS OF MARYLAND.

commissioners, which shall be open at all times for

the inspection of any person interested, and the said

clerk shall make oat and furnish the collector, once

in every year, a list of taxes for collection.

SEC. 11. And be it enacted, That the said com-

Pass ordi-

missioners may pass ordinances to preserve the

nances

health of the town, preventing the erection of all

privies, sinks or any place for the deposit of refuse

and unwholesome matter, without cement cases for

the contents of the same ; to prevent and remove

nuisances ; to prevent, restrain or regulate the run-

ning at large of horses, cattle, swine and geese within

Prohibit fir-

the limits of said town ; to prohibit the firing of

ing of guns,
&c.

guns and pistols, or the shooting of fire crackers

within said town ; to prohibit and disperse the

tumultuous meetings of idle, dissolute or drunken

persons ; to provide for working and mending the

public streets ; to provide for the paving of the side-

walks and gutters, and generally to provide for the

regulation, good government and improvements of

said town, and may enforce the observance thereof

under such penalties, fines and forfeitures as they

shall deem proper, not exceeding ten dollars for any

one offence ; and all such fines, penalties and for-

feitures may be recovered before a justice of the

peace by warrant, judgment and commitment, for a

period not exceeding ten days, to the public jail of

Worcester county, in the same manner that commit-

ments are made for fines imposed by the Circuit

Courts of this State on conviction for misdemeanor ;

but the said commissioners, or a majority of them,

Power to re-

shall have power at any time to remit or release the

mit.

said fines, penalties, forfeitures and costs, or any

part thereof, at their discretion ; but any party fined

or subjected to any penalty or forfeitures, may,
within five days after the same shall be imposed and

judgment recovered, supersede or stay the same for

thirty days by giving ample personal security to the

justice of the peace; and the said commissioners

may purchase a suitable piece of land, and cause to

be erected thereon a strong room or lock-up for the

detention of violators of the ordinances of said town ;

provided the cost of said lock-up and lot of ground

does not exceed the sum of one hundred dollars.