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LAWS OF MARYLAND.

Repealed and

ter four hundred and forty of the acts passed at the

re-enacted.

January session, eighteen hundred and seventy-eight,

title " City of Havre-de-Grace," be and the same is

hereby repealed and re-enacted so as to read as fol-

lows:

SEC. 35. That the Mayor and City Council shall

Enforce ordi-

have the power to enforce the observance of such

nances

ordinance as they may pass, by fines of not less than

fifty cents nor more than twenty dollars, unless

herein specially provided for ; all fines imposed by
any ordinance may be collected in the name of the

Mayor and City Council of Havre-de-Grace, before

a justice of the peace, similar to the mode of collecting

small debts, and the delinquent shall stand commit-

ted to the county jail until the same is paid, with

costs ; the sheriff of Harford county shall receive

and safely keep, in the jail of said county, for breach

or violation of any of the ordinances of said city, ac-

cording to the tenor of the commitment, and in the

same manner and under the same regulations as per-

sons committed for the violation of the laws of this

State : and the bailiff of said city, or his deputies,

Power to ar-

shall have power to arrest, without warrant, any

rest.

person or persons engaged in violating any of the

ordinances or disturbing the public peace, and con-

fine them in the lock-up until such time as he can,

without unreasonable delay, take them before some

justice of the peace for trial ; the Mayor and City

Council shall have power, by ordinance, to license

and regulate hackney coaches, carts, drays, wagons,

or other carriages kept for hire and employed within

the city, with power to make all necessary regulations

respecting the same, and also the power to sell sand

or clay from any of the streets, lanes or alleys of the

city when, in the judgment of the Mayor and City

Council, the same is not needed for grading purposes.

Approved April 10, 1880.