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LAWS OF MARYLAND.

missioners shall have power to change from time to time the

rights, duties and modes of proceeding of said collector in

collecting taxes as aforesaid.

SEC. 76. All taxes as aforesaid shall bear interest after

Taxes to

four months from the date when the tax list is placed in the

bear

hands of the collector for collection, and every such collec-

Interest.

tor shall collect and pay over any levy placed in his hands

within four months after the receipt of said warrant and

list, and upon his failure to do so, his bond shall at once be

put in suit.

SEC. 83. The commissioners may establish and provide a

Market
house.

market house in the town for the use and convenience of

the inhabitants thereof, and may by by-laws and ordi-

nances provide for and regulate the sale of all provisions

brought to said town for sale, the trying and adjusting of

the scales, weights and measures used at the market by

the standards of the county, and the seizure and sale to

the highest bidder, of any found false or untrue ; the

renting of the stalls and shambles of the market, and for

the seizure and sale, for the use of the commissioners, of

all butter in prints or parcels brought to the said market

for sale, found wanting in weight, or unsound and unwhole-

some. The commissioners shall also have power to license

and regulate all carriages, carts, wagons, and other vehi-

cles hired or kept for hire in the said town, and to pass all

necessary and proper regulations respecting the same ;

provided, however, that all revenue arising from said

licenses shall be applied to keeping in order the streets of

the said town.

SEC. 95. All that part of Crisfield district in Somerset

Extension
of

County, lying between the present limits of Crisfield and

boundaries

the metes and bounds hereinafter named, be and the same

is hereby annexed to and made a part of the town of Cris-

field, to wit : Beginning at the present boundary of the

Said town set up at Hammock Point, thence by a straight

line, touching the southeast corner of Henry F. Jewetts

house, to the new county road from the high school to Ash-

bury Church ; thence by a straight line to a point on the

east side of the Eastern Shore Railroad and the north side

of the new county road, through the lands of James H.

Wards, to Mariner's Church, where the said railroad and

the county road cross each other ; and from the said inter-

section, by the dividing line between Crisfield and Law-

son's districts, running to little Annamessex River, thence

by a straight line to the present boundary on Long Point.

SEC. 95 A. And it shall be the duty of the commis-

sioners of Crisfield for five years from and after the pas-