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LAWS OF MARYLAND.

		the passage through any part of the town of any locomotive at a greater rate of speed than six miles an hour; and to pass all other ordinances necessary to give effect and operation to the powers vested in said corporation; and to preserve order
	May impose penalties,	and secure property and persons from violence, danger or destruction; and they may impose fines, penalties or forfei- tures for the breach thereof; but no ordinance of said corpo- ration shall impose a fine, penalty or forfeiture for any offence of more than one hundred dollars; and they may provide by ordinances for the immediate arrest, without warrant, of any person violating any town ordinance by notorious and disorderly conduct or driving or riding through the streets, when, in the judgment of the president or any of said commissioners, the delay recessary for the issuing of the warrant may be dan- gerous to the peace and quiet of the town or the lives, limbs and property of its citizens.
	Taxation of property.	SEC. 205. The president and commissioners may levy a tax ior the expenses of the corporation upon the taxable property within the town limits, and shall have all power of distress and sale of real and personal property given to the collector of State and county taxes for Somerset county, by the Code of Public General Laws and Public Local Laws of this State, for the collection of State and county taxes in said county, to be used and exercised by the president and commissioners, and the collector of taxes for said town, in collecting and enforcing the payment of all taxes, subject to such regulations as the president and commissioners of said town may make in rela- tion thereto.
	Assessors.	SEC. 206. The president and commissioners shall, before any levy be made, appoint three assessors, who under oath shall ascertain and assess the value of the property within the town limits, who shall return the same to them for record in their proceedings, which shall be the basis of taxation, and they shall have power to add to and amend the same annually before making such levy, and they shall once in every three years hereafter, if they think proper, cause new assessment to he made in manner aforesaid.
	Right of appeal	SEC. 207. If any owner of property, assessed in said town, shall he aggrieved by the assessment made by said assessors, he may appeal to the president and commissioners, who may make such deductions therein as to them may seem just and reasonable.