FRANK BROWN, ESQUIRE, GOVERNOR.

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that bailiffs and constables receive in like cases, and for like
services; and for the collection of taxes and other duties, he
shall receive such compensation as the Mayor and Council
shall by ordinance prescribe.

Compensa--
tion.

SEC. 54 F. The mayor of said town, by virtue of his office,
for municipal purposes and for preserving the peace, shall
have all the powers and authorities of a justice of the peace,
and shall see that the ordinances of the corporation are duly
executed; he shall sign all ordinances passed by the council ;
and in case he disapprove of any ordinance, he may refuse to-
sign the same, and shall return it to the council at the next
meeting thereof with his reasons for withholding his signature
therefrom; and if the said ordinance, when again put upon its
passage, shall receive the votes of five-sixths of the members
of said council, it shall become a valid ordinance without the
signature of the mayor.

Powers and
duties of
mayor.

SEC. 54 G. Any justice of the peace resident in said town,
upon complaint made before him of the violation of any ordi-
nance of said corporation, shall issue process in the name of
the Mayor and Council to recover the fine or penalty imposed
for the violation of such ordinance, against the party offend-
ing, 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.

Duty of jus-
tice of the
peace.

SEC. 54 H. In default of payment of any fine or penalty
imposed by him for a violation of any ordinance of the cor-
poration, the justice may commit the party fined to the county
jail for a period not exceeding ten days; and the sheriff of
Carroll county shall receive and confine the party so committed
in the same manner as other prisoners, and shall be entitled to
the same compensation therefor.

Failure to
pay fine.

SEC.54 I. The mayor may remit any fine or penalty imposed
under any ordinance of the Mayor and Council.

Mayor may
remit fine.

SEC. 2. And be it enacted, That this act shall take effect
from the date of its passage.

Approved April 6th, 1894.

Effective.