JOHN WALTER SMITH, ESQ., GOVERNOR.

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aively of the streets and roads within the corporate limits of
the town.

CHAP. 631.

SEC. 28. And be it enacted, That the Mayor and Common
Council may by ordinance provide for the codification of all
ordinances which have been or may be passed by it, and for
the printing of such codifications thereof, and the printed
ordinances so issued by the authority of the Mayor and Com-
mon Council may be read in evidence from the printed
codification.

Provide for
codification
of all
ordinances
passed, etc.

SEC. 29. The Mayor and Common Council of Hyattsville
may purchase and hold property, real, personal or mixed, for
town purposes, and dispose of the same for the benefit of said
town, and may erect suitable buildings for municipal purposes,
costs thereof not to exceed two thousand dollars.

May purchase
and hold
real estate,
etc.

SEC. 30. The Mayor and Common Council may provide by
ordinance for the immediate arrest, without warrant, of any
person found violating any town ordinances; and when it
shall appear that the offender is intoxicated, may confine said
offender in some secure place until he be sober; and may pro-
vide further for the confinement of any person arrested, if
the time be unreasonable, as in the night, whereby he can not
attend the justice until a reasonable hour of the succeeding
morning, when he shall be taken before a justice of the peace
and dealt with according to the nature of the offense ; pro-
vided, that such person so arrested may deposit with the bailiff
a sum of money to cover any fine that may be assessed against
him for the violation of said ordinance, or security for the
same acceptable to said bailiff.

How arrests
may
be made.

SEC. 31. Justices of the peace for Prince George's county
resident in the town are hereby declared to be conservators of
the peace of the town, and it shall be their duty to order the
arrest of any person found by them breaking the peace or
disturbing the quiet and order of the town, or violating any
of the ordinances made by the Mayor and Common Council
for securing the safety of the property or the lives of the
inhabitants of the town, and upon complaint made before
them of the violation of any ordinance of said town, shall
issue process, in the name of the Mayor and Common Council
of Hyattsville, to recover the fine or penalty imposed for the
violation of such ordinance against the party offending, and
may hear and determine the matter as any case arising under
the laws of the State, and shall receive the same fees there-
for ; but in all such cases the bailiff shall bring such complaint
before a justice of the peace.
SEC. 32. In the event of a vacancy in the office of the
justice of the peace resident in the town, or in case of sick-

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Conservators
of the peace.