1190 LAWS OF MARYLAND [CH. 590

or highways and into adjacent lauds for the purpose of drain-
ing that are now possessed by the County Commissioners or
Road Commissioners for said county.

SEC. 31. And be it further enacted. That the Town Com-
missioners 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 discretion, not to exceed
in the aggregate the sum of fifteen thousand dollars, 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 he 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 six 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 Indian Head, the said Town Commission-
ers to annually set aside as a sinking fund a sum not less than
twenty per cent of the municipal taxes collected as such dur-
ing 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 liquidation and redemption of the same.

SEC. 32. And be it further enacted. That any person who
shall remove, cut down, tear down or otherwise destroy any
fence, or any part thereof, or structure 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, high-
way or alley in said town, whether the same be properly lo-
cated 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.