1194 LAWS OF MARYLAND.

for a term not to exceed twenty years, subject in every way
to all the provisions of this Section.

SECTION 184A 13. The Mayor and Council shall provide such
compensation for the Clerk and Treasurer as they may deem
proper, provided such compensation shall not exceed Twenty-
five Dollars per annum. And the Mayor and Council shall
prescribe by proper order or ordinance, not inconsistent with
this Act, the duties of the Clerk and the Treasurer, and all rules
necessary to regulate the conduct of their offices.

SECTION 184A 14. The Maydr and Council shall have the
right and power to pass ordinances providing for licensing,
taxing and regulating the selling or giving away of any spiritu-
ous, vinous or malt liquor, and to license all places where such
liquors, or any of them, are to be used on the premises, whether
given away or sold, and all such last named places, within the
corporate limits of the town of Midland and within one-eighth
of a mile thereof, in addition to the fees required to be paid
to the State, shall pay a license fees of twenty-five dollars per
annum to the Mayor and Council of Midland; and it is hereby
further provided that no person licensed by the State as a retail
dealer or a wholesale dealer to sell liquor in Allegany County,
shall sell fermented or spirituous liquor or lager beer within
the corporate limits of the town of Midland, or within the space
of one-eighth of a mile of said limits without first having paid
to the Mayor and Council of Midland the sum of twenty-five
dollars for each and every oyster house, ordinary saloon or
place licensed by the State as a retailer or wholesale dealer of
liquor or lager beer, under a penalty of forfeiture of the license
to do such business within the corporate limits of said town and
within one-eighth of a mile thereof, and the payment of such
fine, not to exceed twenty-five dollars, as may be provided by
ordinance of the Mayor and Council, to be imposed by any Jus-
tice of the Peace of Allegany County having jurisdiction in any
part of said town; and for this purpose the Mayor and Council
of Midland shall have jurisdiction for one-eighth of a mile be-
yond the corporate limits; in default of the payment of any
fine imposed as hereinbefore provided, the Justice may commit
any person so convicted to the town lockup or the County jail
for not more than thirty days; the Bailiff or other police officer
of the town shall execute and serve the process or other papers
issued by the Justice of the Peace having jurisdiction therein to
the distance of one-eighth of a mile beyond the corporate limits,
as aforesaid, for police purposes. Any person or corporation