EMERSON C. HARRINGTON, GOVERNOR. 865

111. The bailiff shall be entitled to and shall receive the
same fees for making distress or levy for taxes as are allowed
County collectors, and for making arrests or serving process
for violations of any law or any ordinance of the Town Com-
missioners, he shall receive the same fees as are allowed con-
stables for similar sendees; and should the bailiff wilfully fail
to discharge any of the duties of his office he may in addition
to the remedy on his bond be fined by the Town Commissioners
in their discretion, not exceeding ten dollars for any one offence,
for the payment of which fine his bond shall be liable and
responsible.

112. The president shall preside at all 'meetings of the
Town Commissioners and he shall have all the power of a Jus-
tice of the Peace for the collecting and recovering of fines and
penalties and the committing of offenders for violations of law
within the corporate limits of said town, or of any ordinance
duly passed and enacted by said Town Commissioners; and an
appeal from his decision and judgment in any case may be
taken to the Circuit Court for Charles County, which shall
hear and determine the matter as upon appeals from justices of
peace; provided, the party aggrieved by such decision and
judgment give bond, with sureties approved by the president
in double the amount of the judgment and cost against him.

113. The justices of peace for Charles County residing for
the time in the Town of La Plata are hereby declared to be the
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 Commis-
sioners for securing the safety of the property or persons of the
inhabitants of the town; and upon complaint being made under
oath before any such justice of the peace of the violation of any
ordinance of the Town of La Plata he shall forthwith issue
process against the offender in the name of the Town Commis-
sioners of La Plata to recover the fine or penalty imposed for
the violation of such ordinance and may hear and determine
the matter 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.
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