768 LAWS OF MARYLAND.

the purpose of draining that are now passed by the County
Commissioners or Supervisors of Roads for said county.

116G. The town commissioners are hereby empowered to
borrow money for the purpose of public improvements in said
town, in such sums as they may deem proper, in their discre-
tion, not to exceed in the aggregate the sum of fifteen thousand
dollars, including such sum or sums as may now be due and
owing by the said town commissioners, such sum- or sums of
money to be payable at such, times as the said commissioners
may agree upon with the lenders, subject to the limitation
hereinafter set forth, and to issue therefor bonds in sums of
not less than one hundred dollars, nor more than five hundred
dollars each, each bond to be signed by the president of said
town commissioners and countersigned by the clerk thereof
and all of them to be issued at the option of the commissioners
and to bear rate of interest not to exceed five per centum per
annum. The interest on said bonds hereby authorized to be
payable semi-annually on the first day of January and the first
day of Jnly, in each year according to the terms of coupons to
be attached thereto, said bonds to be exempt from all taxation,
and the coupons thereon when due to be receivable for munici-
pal taxes due to the said town of La Plata, the said town com-
missioners to annually set aside as a sinking fund a sum not
less than twenty per cent, of the municipal taxes collected as
such during each succeeding year, until such bonds as may have
been issued by said commissioners shall mature, as provided in
this or any other previous Act, when said fund shall be ap-
plied to the liquidation and redemption of the same.

116H. Any person who shall remove, cut down, tear down,
or otherwise destroy any fence, or any part thereof, or struc-
ture used for the purpose of a fence, or any part thereof upon
the premises of another, bounding the lands of another, along
any public street, highway or alley in said town, whether the
same be properly located or not, provided it be not located
upon land owned by and in possession of the party committing
such Act, or his tenant or agent, shall on conviction pay a fine
of not less than fifty, nor more than two hundred dollars, for
every such offense, and upon failure to pay the same, together
with the costs of prosecution, shall be committed to jail to be
confined therein until such fine and costs are paid, or for the
period of forty days, whichever shall first occur.

SEC. 2. And be it enacted, That all Acts or parts of Acts in-
consistent with the provisions of this Act, be and the same are
hereby repealed and that this Act shall take effect from and
after the date of its passage.

Approved April 8, 1910.