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necessary for him, after obtaining an order from the mayor and

city council authorizing him to sell real or personal property, to

proceed to execute, either real or personal property, for the pay-

ment of any taxes then remaining due and unpaid, it being the

intent and meaning of this sub-title of this article to require all

persons, body politic and corporate, owing, taxes to the town, to

pay the same to the treasurer at such place and times as he may

designate in said town.

SEC. 225. Upon receiving an order from the mayor and city

council to enforce the payment of unpaid taxes, he shall leave

with the party by whom the taxes are to be paid, or at his usual

place of abode or on the premises, if the party does not reside in

town, a statement showing the amount of taxes due thereon, with

Statement

a notice thereto annexed, that unless the taxes are paid within

thirty days thereafter, he will proceed by way of distress or levy

to collect the same.

SEC. 228. The mayor and city council of Laurel may purchase

and hold any property, real, personal or mixed, for town pur-

Buildings.

poses, and dispose of the same for the benefits of said town, and

may erect suitable buildings for municipal purposes, the cost

thereof not to exceed two thousand dollars.

SEC. 229. They may provide by ordinance for the immediate

arrest, without warrant, of any person found violating any town

ordinance; and when it shall appear that the offender is intoxi-

cated, may confine said offender in some secure place until he

shall be sober; and may provide further, for the confinement of

any person arrested, if the time be unreasonable as in the night.

Confine.

whereby he cannot attend the justice, until a reasonable hour the

succeeding morning, when he shall be taken before a justice of

peace and dealt with according to the nature of the offense; pro-

A^rided, that such person so arrested may deposit with the bailiff a

sum of money to cover any fine that may be assessed against him

for the violation of said ordinance, or security for the same ac-

ceptable to said bailiff.

SEC. 230. Justices of the peace for Prince George's county

resident in the town, are hereby declared to be conservators of

the peace of the town; and it shall be their duty to order the

arrest of any person found by them breaking the peace, or dis-

turbing the quiet and order of the town, or violating any of the

ordinances made by the mayor and city council for securing the

Justices.

safety of the property or the lives of the inhabitants of the town

and upon complaint made before them of the violation of any

ordinance of the said town, shall issue process in the name of the

mayor and city council of Laurel, to recover fine or penalty im-

posed for the violation of such ordinance, against the party

offending, and may hear and determine the matter as any case

arising under the laws of this State, and shall receive the same