ROBERT M. McLANE, ESQUIRE, GOVERNOR.

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county taxes of Carroll county are now collected, and

all persons subject to the payment of such taxes shall

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have the same rights, privileges and remedies now en-

remedies.

joyed and possessed by persons subject to the payment

of county taxes in Carroll county.

SEC. 20. And be it enacted, That the burgess of

said town, by virtue of his office, for municipal

Burgess's pow-

purposes and preserving the peace, shall have all

ers.

the powers of the justice of the peace; he shall

see that the laws and ordinances of the corpora-

tion are duly executed; he may require any offi-

cer of the corporation entrusted with the receipt

and expenditure of moneys of the corporation to sub-

Require state-
ments.

mit to him a statement of such officer's account as

often as said burgess or commissioners may deem ne-

cessary; he shall report annually in writing to the

commissioners the general condition of the town, with

the moneys received and expended, which report shall

be posted up in not less than two of the most public

places of the town; he shall sign all laws and ordi-

nances passed by the commissioners, with his reason in

case of refusal to sign, and if said law or ordinance so

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unsigned by him be again put upon its passage and

veto.

receive the votes of four-fifths of the commissioners it

shall become a law without the approval of the

burgess.

SEC. 21. And be it enacted, That all other officers

or assistants to officers necessary to execute the powers

of said corporation shall be provided and appointed as

Other officer.

by ordinance of the burgess and commissioners shall

be directed.

SEC. 22. And be it enacted, That all moneys arising

from taxes, fines, forfeitures and penalties imposed by

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this act or ordinance of the burgess and commissioners

appropriated.

shall be appropriated only to the uses of said corpora-

tion as may by order or ordinance be directed.

SEC. 23. And be it enacted, That all fines, penalties

and forfeitures imposed by the laws and ordinances of

said burgess and commissioners shall be recovered be-

fore the burgess or any justice of the peace residing

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within the corporate limits of said town, upon a warrant

recovered.

issued against the offender, directed to the bailiff of said

corporation, as any constable of said county, in the cor-

porate name of said town, and shall be collected by

judgment and execution in the same manner and with

the same costs and fees as provided for in cases of