898 LAWS OF MARYLAND.

of any person violating any town ordinance, within the judg-
ment of the said president or of the constable, or police of the
town, the delay necessary to the issuing of warrants would be
dangerous to the peace and quiet of the town or to the lives,
limbs or property of the citizens, and when it shall appear that
the offender is intoxicated so as to render it unsafe to permit
him to ride or drive through the streets of said town, shall
provide for the custody of the horse or horses, vehicle or ve-
hicles, ridden or driven by such person, in some place of safety
until such offender or offenders shall become sober, and the said
Commissioners shall by ordinance subject the property so taken
and deposit it to the payment of all costs of the proceedings,
and the keeping of the said property until the same shall be
released according to law.

SEC. 15. And be it enacted, That the police and the other
officers of the peace appointed by the said Commissioners under
the powers conferred by this Act, are hereby vested with the
same power and authority as any constable or police officer may
now or hereafter have under the laws of the State.

SEC. 16. And be it enacted, That the justices of the peace
resident in said town are hereby declared to be the conserva-
tors of the peace of the said town, and it shall be their duty
to order the arrest of any person or persons found breaking
the peace or disturbing the quiet or order of said town, or
violating any of the ordinances made by the Commissioners for
securing the safety, health, property or lives of the inhabitants
of said town, destroying or injuring the property of said town,
and shall have power to require any person so offending to
give security to keep the peace, or in default thereof, may com-
mit said person to the county jail for not more than (30) thirty
days, or may, for the commission of such offenses impose a fine
on such person of not more than five dollars ($5.00) and such
person, in default of payment thereof, may be committed to
the county jail for a period of not more than thirty (30) days.

SEC. 17. And be it enacted, That the said Commissioners
shall have the power to levy and collect taxes in said town not
exceeding the rate of thirty cents (30 cents) on the hundred
dollars in any one year, on all assessable property in said town,
on the same basis of assessment as the said property shall for
said year be assessed for State and county purposes; provided,
that all property in said corporate limits used only for agricul-
tural purposes shall only be assessed as such agricultural
property, and not as town lots. On the first day of September
taxes shall be due and collectible, and on the first day of October
in each year taxes shall be deemed to be in arrears and interest