1478 LAWS OF MARYLAND. [CH. 680

with some person, on reasonable terms, to make said footway,
or repair the same, and may collect the expense thereof, with
costs, by distress on such property.

Section 336. They shall have the power to pass ordinances
limiting the time or preventing the standing of cars across
the streets of said City, to the inconvenience or delay of public
travel on the thoroughfares of said City; and they shall also
have power to pass ordinances to prevent the deposit of
garbage and filth in the "Deep Cut" through Saint Clare
street, and shall pass such ordinances as will compel the Phila-
delphia, Wilmington and Baltimore Railroad Company to keep
the "Cut" in a cleanly condition; to construct proper, sufficient
and safe bridges over the same; to keep the walls and fences
in good repair and safe condition; and they shall have the
power to enforce the ordinances passed to carry out the provi-
sions of this Section, by fines of not less than five dollars nor
more than one hundred dollars, to be collected before a Jus-
tice of the Peace.

Section 337. They shall have power to provide for and
take care of any persons suffering from accident or otherwise,
who are unable to take care of themselves, and if deemed nec-
essary shall have them sent to the alms house of said county;
and all expenses so incurred shall be repaid to the corporation
by the County Commissioners, who are authorized and required
to levy annually for such amounts, payable to the Mayor and
City Council of Havre de Grace.

Section 338. They shall have the power to enforce the ob-
servance of such ordinances as they may pass, by fines of not
less than fifty cents nor more than twenty dollars, unless herein
specially provided for; all fines imposed by any ordinance may
be collected in the name of the Mayor and City Council of
Havre de Grace, before a Justice of the Peace, similar to the
mode of collecting small debts, and the delinquent shall stand
committed to the county jail until the fine is paid, with costs;
the Sheriff shall receive and safely keep in the jail of said
county, all persons so committed for breach or violation of any
of the ordinances of said City, according to the tenor of the
commitment, and in the same manner and under the same reg-
ulations as persons committed for the violation of the laws of
this State; and the Bailiff of said City, or his deputies, shall
have power to arrest, without warrant, any persons engaged
in violating any of the ordinances or disturbing the public
peace, and confine them in the lock-up until such time as he