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LAWS OF MARYLAND.

turbauces ; prevent all congregation of disorderly persons in

public places ; and may impose fines, penalties and forfeit-

ures for the violation of their ordinances, and may commit

all offenders to the county jail until the same be paid

with costs.

SEC. 12. And be it enacted, That they may, as often as

Make as-

they may deem advisable, cause an assessment to be made

sessments.

of all the real and personal property within said town, or

the corporate limits thereof by a person to be appointed

and paid by them, which assessment shall not exceed the

assessment of the same for county purposes and the com-

missioners may levy a tax thereon not exceeding ten cents

in the hundred dollars worth of property.

SEC. 13. And be it enacted, That whenever they shall levy

Power to

a tax, they shall cause to be made out an alphabetical list

levy and
collect.

of the persons charged therein, and shall cause to be affixed

thereto the respective sums to be collected from such per-

sons, and a warrant to the bailiff to collect the same ; and

the said bailiff shall have the same power of distraint as a

collector of county taxes, and his proceedings thereunder

shall be in all respects similar to the proceedings of a col-

lector of county taxes in such cases.

SEC. 14. And be it enacted, That the bailiff shall make

all collections required of him and pay the same to the

Bailiff to
make col-

clerk within six months from the time the tax bill is placed

lections.

in his hands.

SEC. 15. And be it enacted, That any fines penalties and

Fines,

forfeitures imposed by this charter, or by any ordinance of

penalties,

the commissioners, may be collected by procedings in the

&c.

name of the commissioners before a justice of the peace ;

and the justice of the peace shall have power to commit

the offender to the county jail on failure to pay such line

and forfeitures until the same shall be paid with costs.

SEC. 16. And be it enacted, That the commissioners shall

Expendi-
tures.

not expend or contract to expend in any one year more

money than the amount receivable from taxes and other

sources for that year.

SEC. 17. And be it enacted, That the county commis-

County

sionrs, justices of the peace, sheriffs, constables, and all

officers.

State and county officers shall havo, hold and exercise their

offices and jurisdiction in said town as if this charter had

not been granted and the County Commissioners of

Montgomery County shall, on or before the first day of

January in the year eighteen hundred and ninety-three,

and on or before the first day of January in each