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LAWS OP MARYLAND.

ered before a justice of the peace by warrant

Commit-
ments— how
made out.

and judgment, and in case of failure or refusal
to pay the same, the party so fined shall be com-
mitted for a period not exceeding ten days to
the jail of Garrett county, in the same manner
that commitments are made for fines imposed
by the circuit courts of this state on conviction
of misdemeanor ; provided that all the expenses
of such commitment and imprisonment shall be
paid by the mayor and common council of
Deer Park ; but said mayor and common coun-
cil, or a majority of them, shall have power, at
all times, to remit or release the fines, penalties,
and forfeitures, or any part thereof, at their
discretion ; but any party fined, or subject to

May remit or
release.

any fine or forfeiture, may, within five days
after the same shall be imposed, and judgment
recovered, supersede and stay the same for
thirty days by giving ample personal security
to the justice of the peace, and the fines and

Tines— how
disposed of.

forfeitures imposed and collected by any of
the provisions of this act may be paid by the
mayor and common council to the bailiff as
compensation for his services, or the said mayor
and common council may make such other dis-
position of said fines and forfeitures as they
may deem best.
SUB-SECTION 1. And be it enacted, That the

Lay out
streets, etc.

mayor and common council shall have power
to provide by ordinance for the laying out, open-
ing, widening, straightening, extending, or clos-
ing of any street, alley or lane, in said town, or
of any proposed street, alley or lane, in said
town, which, in their judgment, the public wel-
fare or convenience may require ; to provide for
ascertaining whether any and what amount in
value, in damage, will be caused thereby, for
which the owner or possessor of any property
through which said street, alley or lane, may
pass, ought to be compensated, by the appoint-
ment of commissioners, the number of whom to
be determined by said mayor and common coun-

Assess or levy

cil, to assess the same ; to provide for assessing
and levying either, generally on the whole as-
sessable property within the town, or specially,
on the property of persons benefited, the whole
or any part of the damages and expenses which