870 LAWS OF MARYLAND. [CH. 441

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 the 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 July in each year, according to
the terms of coupons to be attached thereto, and the coupons
thereon when due, to be receivable for municipal taxes due to
the said town of La Plata, the said Town Commissioners 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 applied to the liqui-
dation and redemption of the same.

116F. Any person who shall remove, cut down, tear down
or otherwise destroy any fence, or any part thereof, or struct-
ure 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
any 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.

116G. The said Town Commissioners of La Plata shall on
or before the first day of April in the year 1912 and in each
and every year thereafter, make out and post at the court house
door and at two or more other public places in the said Town of
La Plata a full and detailed statement of all moneys received
and disbursements made for the use and benefit of the said
Town of La Plata, and for failure so to do shall be guilty of
a misdemeanor and subject to a fine of not less than ten nor
more than twenty-five dollars for each offense and the costs of
prosecution in the discretion of the justice of the peace before
whom the claim shall be made, by any voter or taxpayer of