970

LAWS OF MARYLAND.

CHAP. 497

manufacture and traffic in offensive or dangerous materials
or commodities within said limits: they shall have power to

General
powers
granted.

provide for the codification of all ordinances which may
hereafter be passed; and for the purpose of carrying out the
foregoing powers, and for the preservation of the cleanliness,
health, peace and good order of the community and for the
protection of the lives and property of the citizens, and to
suppress, abate or discontinue all nuisance within the cor-
porate limits of said town, they may pass all ordinances
and laws that said commissioners may from time to time
consider necessary; and to the observance of all ordinances
of said commissioners, in addition to the action of debt, or
such other civil remedies as may exist in such cases for the
recovery of the penalties thereto affixed, they may fix thereto

Fine imposed.

such reasonable fines not exceeding fifty dollars in any case,
as to them may appear proper, and in default of payment of
any fine imposed they may provide for the punishment of
the offender for a period not exceeding twenty days, or until
the fine and costs are paid; instead of the aforesaid penal-
ties, it shall be lawful in case of the conviction of any person
for vagrancy, to sentence such person to hard work on the
streets and highways of said town for a period not exceeding
ten days.

SEC. 9. And be it enacted, That the commissioners shall
have power to levy an equal tax on the property within the

Tax to be
levied.

corporate limits of said town to such an amount each year,
not exceeding fifty cents on each hundred dollars' worth of
property, as may be deemed necessary for the government
of said town, which taxes so levied and assessed shall be
collected promptly by the bailiff of said town, and by said
bailiff paid over as collected, or within five days thereafter, to
the treasurer of said town; and the bailiff of said town
shall have the same power to distrain for taxes as the treas-
urer of Allegany county now has to distrain for the same,
and the said commissioners shall fix the amount of bond, the
rate of compensation, and prescribe the duties of the said
bailiff, which said bond shall guarantee the collection of all
taxes imposed by said commissioners, except such insol-
vencies as may be from time to time allowed by said com-
missioners; and the said commissioners, within two months

Assessors
appointed.

after the first election held under this Act, shall appoint two
persons, citizens of said town, to assess and value all prop-