ART. 17.] PRINCE GEORGE'S COUNTY. 941

printing of such codification thereof, and the printed ordinances
so issued by the authority of the Common Council may be read
in evidence from the printed codification.

SEC. 28. The Mayor and Common Council of Hyattsville
may purchase and hold said property, real, personal or mixed,
for town purposes, and dispose of the same for the benefit of
said town, and may erect suitable buildings for municipal pur-
poses.

SEC. 29. The Mayor and Common Council may provide by
ordinance for the immediate arrest, without warrant, of any
person found violating any town ordinances, and when it shall
appear that the offender is intoxicated, may confine said offen-
der in some secure place until he be sober; and may provide,
further, for the confinement of any person arrested if the time
be unreasonable, as in the night, whereby he can not attend the
justice until a reasonable hour of the succeeding morning, when
he shall be taken before a justice of the peace and dealt with
according to the nature of the offense; provided, that such per-
son so arrested may deposit with the bailiff a sum of money to
cover any fine that may be assessed against him for the viola-
tion of said ordinance, or security for the same acceptable to
said bailiff.

SEC. 30. Justice of the peace for Prince George's county, resi-
dent in the town are hereby declared to be conservators of the
peace of the town, and it shall be their duty to order the arrest
of any person found by them breaking the peace or disturbing
the quiet and order of the town, or violating any of the ordi-
nances made by the Mayor and Common Council for securing
the safety of the property or the lives of the inhabitants of the
town, and upon complaint made before them of the violation of
any ordinance of said town shall issue process, in the name of
the Mayor and Common Council of Hyattsville, to recover the
fine or penalty imposed for the violation of such ordinance
against the party offending, and may hear and determine the
matter as any case arising under the laws of the State, and
shall receive the same fees therefor, but in all such cases the
bailiff shall bring such complaint before a justice of the peace.

SEC. 31. In the event of a vacancy in the office of the justice
of the peace resident in the town, or in the case of sickness,
absence or disability of said justice, the hearing of the case or
transaction of the business assigned to said justice by this
charter may be had before any other justice of the peace in and
for Prince George's county, and the Mayor and Common Coun-
cil of Hyattsville may provide for the expense so incurred.