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collecting the same to the clerk and treasurer of said town ;

provided, that if the offence be a breach of the peace or dis-

turbing the good order of the town, or in violation of any of

the ordinances intended to secure the safety of the lives or

property of any of the inhabitants of said town, or licensing

traveling showmen or exhibitors, the person so convicted

may be committed to the jail of Carroll County, or to some

place of confinement provided within the corporate limits of

said town, by said mayor or justice of the peace, until the

fine and costs are paid, or for ten days, which ever shall first

occur ; and the mayor or justice of the peace who committed

such offender may, when it seems proper to him, order such

offender to be discharged before the expiration of ten days;

and the sheriff of said county shall be entitled to be paid by

said corporation the same fees as he receives for keeping

prisoners under the laws of the State ; no fine imposed upon

any offender shall be less than one dollar nor more than ten

dollars ; and any person convicted under the provisions of

this sub-title of this article, or the laws and ordinances of

the town shall have the right to appeal to the Circuit Court

for Carroll County in the same manner as appeals are now

taken under in the general laws of this State.

Neglect
and non-

SEC. 21. And be it enacted, That uegleet or non -user shall

user.

not work a forfeiture of this sub-title of this article.

SEC. 22. And be it enacted, That this act shall take effect

Effect.

from the date of its passage.

Approved April 7th, 1892.

CHAPTER 422.

AN ACT authorizing the transcribing of certain indexes of

records and will-books in the office of Register of Wills

for Washington County, Maryland.

SECTION 1. Be it enacted by the General Assembly of

Maryland, That the Register of Wills for Washington

Transcribe

County, Maryland, be and he is hereby required to transcribe

indexes.

as many of the indexes in the office of the Register of Wills

for said county into a new book or books well-bound for

that purpose, as may now be worn out or rendered inefficient

from continued use ; and also remodel the entire general

index of wills and administrations and guardian accounts ;

and that he also fill and supply any vacancy which may

now exist in such general indexes.