FRANK BROWN, ESQUIRE, GOVERNOR.

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ment of the same for county purposes, and the commissioners

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

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

Tax list.

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.

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

Bailiff to

collections required of him, and pay the same to the clerk

collect.

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

his hands.

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

forfeitures imposed by this charter, or by any ordinance of

Fines.

the commissioners, may be collected by proceedings in the

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 fine and

forfeitures until the same shall be paid with costs.

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

not expend or contract to expend in any one year more

Limit to

money than the amount receivable from taxes and other

expendi-
tures

sources for that year.

SEC. 17. And be it enacted, That the county commissioners,

justices of the peace, sheriff, constables and all State and

Jurisdic-
tion of

county officers shall have, hold and exercise their offices

county

and jurisdiction in said town as if their charter had not

officers.

been granted : and the County Commissioners of Mont-

gomery 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 and every year there-

after, pay over to the commissioners of said town that pro-

portion of the entire county levy for the repair of roads

which the total real property assessed within the limits of

Clarksburg bears to the whole amount of assessed property in

Montgomery County so that the Commissioners of Clarks-

burg may receive and disburse for the repair and maintain-

ance of the street of said town the amount levied upon the

corporate limits of the town of Clarksburg for the repair of

roads by the said Commissioners of Montgomery County.

SEC. 17. And be it enacted, That this act shall take effect

Effective.

from the date of its passage.

Approved April 7th, 1892.