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JOHN LEE CARROLL, ESQUIRE, GOVERNOR. 689

twenty dollars, unless herein specially provided for.

 

All fines imposed by any ordinance may be collected

 

in the name of the " Mayor and City Council of

 

Havre-de-Grace," before a justice of the peace, simi-

 

lar to the mode of collecting small debts, and the

 

delinquent shall stand committed to the county jail
until the same is paid, with costs. The sheriff of

 

Harford county shall receive and safely keep in the

 

jail of said county for breach or violation of any of

 

the ordinances of said city, according to the tenor of

 

the commitment, and in the same manner and under

 

the same regulations as persons committed for the

 

violation of the laws of this State ; and the bailiff of

Power of

said city, or his deputies, shall have power to arrest

bailiff.

without warrant any person or persons engaged in

 

violating any of the ordinances or disturbing the

 

public peace, and confine them in the "Lock-up"

 

until such time as he can, without unreasonable de-

 

lay, take them before some justice of the peace for

 

trial.

 

SEC. 36. And be it enacted, That the said Mayor

 

and City Council may borrow, on the faith and

May boi row

credit of the corporation, any sum of money not ex-

money

ceeding five thousand dollars, and may issue bonds

 

for the same, bearing the regular legal interest of

 

this State, and in such sums not less than twenty

 

dollars, and payable at such times as the said corpor-

 

ation may direct ; but they shall not issue any note,

 

token or evidence of debt to be used as currency.

 

SEC. 37. And be it enacted, That it shall be the

 

duty of the treasurer, after first having filed such

Duty of treas-

bond as the Council may require, to take charge of

urer.

all moneys, bonds, notes, and all other securities be-

 

longing to said city. He shall make a statement of

 

the condition of the finances of said city to the

 

Mayor and City Council whenever called upon to

 

do so. He shall pay out no money above the sum

 

of twenty dollars, without an order from the City

 

Council, approved by the Mayor. He shall have

 

power to pay accounts, notes or such bills as may be

 

rendered against the city, in sums of less than twenty

 

dollars, when such accounts, notes or bills have been

 

inspected by the Mayor, and ordered by him to be

 

paid.

 

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