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Session Laws, 1910 Session
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CHARLES COUNTY. 763

conservators of the peace of the town, and it shall be their duty
to order the arrest of any person breaking the peace of the
town or disturbing the quiet and order thereof or violating any
of the ordinances made and passed by the town commissioners
for securing the safety of the property or person of the inhab-
itants of the town; and upon complaint being made under oath
before any such justice of peace of the violation of any ordi-
nance of the town of La Plata he shall forthwith issue process
against the offender in the name of the town commissioners of
La Plata to recover the fine or penalty imposed for the viola-
tion of such ordinance, and may hear and determine the mat-
ter as in other cases arising under the laws of this State in
which he has jurisdiction, and shall receive the same fees
therefor.

114. All fines and penalties, as well as all taxes collected
under the provisions of this Act, shall be collected in the name
of and for the use of the town commissioners of La Plata, who
shall expend the same as, in their judgment, they may deem
best for the purposes of the corporation.

115. The County Commissioners of Charles County, justices
of the peace, sheriff, constables and all other county and State
officers shall have, hold and exercise their respective offices in
the jurisdiction of the town of La Plata; provided that such
taxes for public or county road purpose as are levied by the
County Commissioners of Charles County upon the inhabitants
or the property in the town of La Plata, shall be expended on
the streets and roads within the corporate limits of said town,
under such rules and regulations as may be agreed upon or
adopted by and between said County Commissioners and the
town commissioners of La Plata.

116. The town commissioners of La Plata shall have the
same powers that are now exercised, or that may be exercised,
at any time by the State Board of Health of Maryland, restrict-
ed, however, to the limits of said town of La Plata.

116A. The commissioners of said town may purchase and
hold any property, real, personal or mixed, that may be neces-
sary for municipal purposes and dispose of the same for the
benefit of said town.

116B. They shall have power to establish building lines in
all the streets and highways in said town, or which shall here-
after be opened therefor, and to compel all persons erecting
buildings in said town to conform thereto, under such penalties
as they may prescribe by ordinance, but no building shall here-
after be erected for the purpose of a stable or privy or for a
place of confinement of any live stock within one hundred feet


 

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