ROBERT M. McLANE, ESQUIRE, GOVERNOR.

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have power at any time to remit or release the fines,

Remit fines.

penalties and forfeitures, or any part thereof, at their

discretion; but any party fined, or subject to any fine

or forfeiture, may, within five days after the same

shall be imposed and judgment recorded, supersede

or stay the same for thirty days by giving ample per-

sonal security to the justice of the peace; and any

party subject to a fine, penalty or forfeiture by virtue

of any of the provisions of this act, shall have a right

Appeals.

to appeal within five days thereafter to the circuit

court for Garrett county, and shall have a right, if he

so elect, to a trial by jury, and the fines and forfeitures

imposed and collected by any of the provisions of this

act may be paid by said commissioners to the bailiff as

compensation for his services, or the said commissioners

may make such other disposition of said fines and for-

feitures as they may deem best.

SEC. 11. And be it enacted, That the said commis-

sioners may provide for levying and collecting an an-

nual tax of fifty cents on the owner of every dog and

one dollar on the owner of every bitch within the said

Dog tax.

town, and the killing of every dog and bitch whose

owner cannot be ascertained, or whose owner shall

refuse to pay or who shall fail to do so within one

mouth from the time he shall be notified.

SEC. 12. And be it enacted, That the said commis-

sioners may cause each male inhabitant of said town

of twenty-one years of age and upwards to work in the

Work in streets

streets, lanes and alleys of said town, under the super-

vision of the bailiff, one day in each year; and if any

person as aforesaid, after having been summoned in

writing one day previous to the day appointed by the
bailiff for working the streets, shall fail to appear or

provide some one in his stead, the said person shall,

upon conviction before a justice of the peace, be fined

one dollar and costs, and the bailiff shall receive for

Penalty.

his services under this section not exceeding one dollar

per day that he is actually engaged in working said

streets.

SEC. 13. And be it enacted, That the commissioners

may annually levy a tax for the expenses of the cor-

poration upon the taxable property within the town

limits, real and personal, except public and private

Levy tax.

securities and book accounts and such properties as

may be occupied by churches and public schools, and

the same shall be collected by a collector appointed by