FRANK BROWN, ESQUIRE, GOVERNOR.

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SEC. 10. And be it enacted, That the commissioners may

pass such ordinances, not inconsistent with law as they

Ordi-

may deem beneficial to the town ; may open and close streets,

nances.

lanes and alleys, straighten, grade and pave the same,

remove nuisances and obstructions therefrom, restrain all

disorders and disturbances, prevent all congregations of

disorderly persons in public places, apprehend and fine all

tramps and vagabonds, impose fines, penalties and forfeit-

ures for the violation of their ordinances, and commit all

offenders to the county jail until the same be paid with

costs ; they may pass such ordinances as they may deem

necessary for the preservation of the health of the town and

remove all nuisances from, or prohibit all business within the

corporate limits thereof as shall, in their opinion, injuriously

affect the sanitary condition thereof; and as often as they

may deem advisable may cause an assesment to be made of

Assess-

all real and personal property within said town, by the bailiff

ment

of said town, which assessment shall not exceed the assess-

ments for State and county purposes, and they may levy a

tax thereon not exceediug ten cents on the hundred dollars

of assessable property, and provided that any person who

feels aggrieved by such assessment may appeal therefrom

to said commissioners at their first meeting after such

assessment, who shall hear and determine said appeal and

shall increase or abate such assessment as they may deem

just, and whenever the said levy is so made the said com-

missioners shall make an alphabetical list of the persons

who owe such taxes with the respective amounts so due, and

place them in the hands of the bailiff to collect.

SEC. 11. And be it enacted. That the bailiff shall after

receipt of said tax list within ten days render to each per-

Bailiff to

son named therein a tax bill showing the amount due if the

collect
taxes

said person be a resident of said town or in close proximity

thereto, but if a non-resident shall mail the same, if his

address be known, but if the address be unknown shall

publish the same in some newspaper published in Calvert

County, the cost of said publication to be added to the tax

bill so published, and unless said bills be paid within thirty

days of the delivery or publication thereof, the said bailiff

may collect the same with all costs by distress and sale of

the real estate and personal property of the delinquent at

public auction, after giving twenty days' notice in some

newspaper published in said county ; and conveyance of

said property, so sold, by the commissioners shall be pre-

sumptive evidence that the law has been complied with in

making such sale and conveyance.

SEC. 12. And be it enacted, That the bailiff shall preserve

the peace and good order of the "town and for this purpose