766 LAWS OF MARYLAND.

hundred dollars for each offense, and upon failure to pay the
same, together with the costs of prosecution, shall be commit-
ted to jail and confined therein until such fine and costs are
paid, or for the period of forty days, whichever shall first
occur.

116E. Any person who shall sell spirituous or fermented liq-
uors or lager beer or who shall keep or conduct the business of
a hotel, inn or* boarding house, whether the same shall be a
building exclusively for that purpose or in a dwelling house,
shall pay a license of twenty-five dollars per year, or a propor-
tionate amount for periods less than a year; all such licenses
shall be paid to the clerk or bailiff appointed in accordance
with the provisions of this Act for municipal purposes, and
shall run in all cases from the time of the beginning of said
business to the first of May ensuing. The license herein im-
posed shall be in addition to any other license that may be im-
posed by the Public General Laws of this State or the Public
Local Laws relating to Charles County; but it is not the intent
hereof that any person keeping a hotel and selling any of the
aforesaid liquors shall pay the license herein provided for for
more than one of such kind of business. Any person who shall
violate the provisions of this section shall upon conviction pay
a fine of not less than fifty nor more than two hundred dollars
for each offence, and upon failure to pay the same, together
with the costs of prosecution, shall be committed to jail and
confined therein until such fine and costs are paid, or for a
period of forty days, whichever shall first occur. No prosecu-
tions before justices of the peace for violation of any of the
sections of this Act or the Article of which this Act is amenda-
tory, or of any of the ordinances passed in pursuance thereof,
shall fail or any of the proceedings therein be invalid, because
of any defect or error in matter of form, and the same shall be
amendable to such extent as may be necessary for the purpose
of carrying out the intent of the provisions of this Act.

116p. Whenever the said commissioners shall decide that it
is expedient that any road, street, lane or alley, as aforesaid,
within said corporate limits, shall be opened, widened and
straightened, changed or closed, or make subways, as provided
in Section 102, unless they shall be able to make satisfactory
contracts necessary for the same, or unless the necessary lands
or easements in or over the same shall be donated for the pur-
poses, they shall appoint three disinterested persons, residents
of the town, to assess all damages done, suffered and incurred
by the opening, widening, straigtening, changing or closing of
any such highways, streets, lanes or alleys, or the construction
of any such subways, and any benefits or advantages accruing