WILLIAM T. HAMILTON. ESQUIRE, GOVERNOR. 469

	CHAPTER 317.
	AN ACT to repeal and re-enact with amendments
	section two hundred and eighty-nine, article twen
	ty-one, of the Code of Public Local Laws, titled
	" Washington county," sub-titled " Sharpsburg,"
	and to add an additional section to said article, to
	be known as section two hundred and ninety-one
	"A."
	SECTION 1. Be it enacted by the General Assembly of Maryland, That section two hundred and eighty-
	nine, article twenty-one of the Code of Public
	Local Laws, titled " Washington county," sub-titled " Sharpsburg," be and the same is hereby repealed and re-enacted with amendments, and an additional	Repealed and re-enacted.
	section be and the same is hereby added to said
	article, to be known as section two hundred and
	ninety-one "A."
	SEC. 289. Be it enacted, That they may lay an equal tax on the property, real and personal, within
	the town, to such amount as may from time to time
	be deemed necessary for the purposes of the corpora- tion, and may appoint a collector to collect the said
	taxes, and the said collector shall have the same	Appoint col-
	power to distrain therefor as collectors of county	lector.
	taxes, and shall, when he has collected the said
	taxes, pay the same to the burgess and commission-
	ers; and the said burgess and commissioners may
	prescribe the term of office, responsibility and com-
	pensation of the collector.
	SEC. 291 A. Be it enacted, That the burgess and
	commissioners are hereby authorized to rent or erect, maintain and use a suitable building in said town	Rent lock-up.
	for a lock-up, to which offenders and violators of the
	ordinances of said town may be committed.
	Approved April 10, 1880.