ART. 15.] KENT COUNTY. 897
nances shall be collected as other fines, penalties and forfeit-
ures are collected under the laws of the State; and all fines,
when collected, shall be promptly paid to the treasurer of the
corporation for the use of the town, and in case of default in
the payment of such fines, penalties and forfeitures and the
costs attending their imposition and collection of the same,
the offender may be imprisoned in the town or county jail
for a term not exceeding thirty (30) days in the same manner
as commitments are made for fines imposed by the Circuit
Court for the judicial district in which said town is situated,
on conviction for misdemeanor, but any party fined or subject
to a fine or forfeiture may, after the same be imposed, super-
sede or stay the same for five (5) days by giving ample security
to the officer imposing the same, and any party subject to a fine,
penalty or forfeiture by virtue of any of the provisions of this
Act shall have right of appeal within five (5) days thereafter
to the Circuit Court of Kent county, upon giving ample secur-
ity for the payment of such fine and costs. All ordinances
shall be posted for five (5) days in some public place in said
Still Pond, and the certificate of the secretary entered upon the
records of the corporation shall be due evidence of the passage
and publication of the ordinance respectively. All ordinances
shall be enforced from and after the date of their last respec-
tive publication.
SEC. 12. And be it enacted, That the said Commissioners
shall have the power all regulations and ordinances not incon-
sistent with the Constitution and laws of this State, as from
time to time they may deem necessary or expedient for the
comfort, convenience and prosperity of the said town and its
inhabitants, for the prevention, removal or abatement of any
nuisance, and the preservation of health, the suppression of
vice and immorality and for the general police regulations
within the limits of said town, and to impose fines and penal-
ties for violations thereof, to be collected as provided for in the
last preceding section six.
SEC. 13. And be it enacted, That the said Commissioners
shall have the power to pass ordinance requiring, all circus
or theatrical performances, shows and plays, and public en-
tertainments for which an admission fee is charged, to take out
a license before giving an exhibition in said town, and to fix the
cost of said license; and shall have the power to pass all ordi-
nances to provide for regulating peddlers of nostrums, notions,
patent, secret or pretended inventions and remedies on the
streets, alleys or sidewalks of said town.
SEC. 14. And be it enacted, That said Commissioners may
provide by ordinance for the immediate arrest, without warrant.
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