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LAWS OF MARYLAND.

SEC....... Any justice of the peace residing in said

town, or, in the absence of such justice, any justice of

the peace of election district number three, in Talbot

county, upon complaint made before him of the viola-

tion of any law, by-law or ordinance of said corpora-

Issue process.

tion, shall issue process, in the name of the commis-

sioners of Oxford, to recover the fine or penalty

imposed for the violation of such law, by-law or ordi-

nance, against the party offending, and may hear and

determine the matter as in any case arising under the

laws of the state, and shall receive the same fees

therefor; the justice shall, in default of the payment

of any fine or penalty imposed by him for a violation

of any law, by-law or ordinance of the said corpora-

Commit to
county jail.

tion, commit the party fined to the county jail for a

period not exceeding thirty days; and the sheriff of

Talbot county shall receive and confine the party so

committed in the same manner as other persons, and

shall be entitled to the same compensation therefor,

to be paid by the commissioners of Talbot county.

SEC....... Nothing in this act shall be so construed as

to affect the tenure of office of the commissioners of

said town in office at the time of the passage of this

act, and who were elected on the first Monday in June,

How construed

eighteen hundred and eighty-three; but said commis-

sioners shall continue in office until the expiration of

the time for which they were elected, and shall con-

tinue to exercise the powers and perform the duties

now or hereafter vested in them by law until the ex-

piration of the time for which they were elected, or

until their successors shall qualify.

Approved March 20, 1884.