288 LAWS OF MARYLAND. [CH. 161

for protection of the lives and property of the citizens of the
town, to suppress, abate or discontinue, or cause to be sup-
pressed, abated or discontinued, all nuisances within the cor-
porate and sanitary limits of the town, they may pass all
ordinances or by-laws from time to time necessary, and they
may affix thereto, such reasonable fines and costs, not exceed-
ing twenty dollars in any one case, as may to them appear
right and just, and in default of payment of any fine and
cost imposed, they may provide for the imprisonment of the
offender, for a period not exceeding thirty days, or until the
fine and costs be paid, or sentence said offender to hard labor
for a sufficient length of time until said labor will satisfy the
fine and costs, the price allowed for the labor thus done to be
the same as that allowed for persons regularly hired to per-
form such labor.

328-H. The said Mayor and Commissioners shall have
power to appoint a bailiff, constable or policeman, for the said
corporation who shall have the same general peace powers
within the corporate limits of said town as a constable of said
Washington County. He .shall have authority to arrest all
persons found by him violating any ordinance of said cor-
poration, or on warrant issued by the Mayor or either Com-
missioner in the absence of the Mayor and shall be allowed
the same costs as constables are allowed for similar services.
Before any policeman, bailiff or constable, regular or special,
shall act as such, he shall take and subscribe before the Mayor
the following oath: "I do swear or affirm that I will, to the
best of my ability, discharge the duties of policeman, bailiff
or constable as the case may be, within the police limits of the
corporation of Pen Mar, without fear, favor or partiality."
The policeman, bailiff or constable, so appointed for the en-
forcement of ordinances of the town and the preservation of
its peace and good order, shall have all the powers of con-
stable ; and persons resisting a policeman, bailiff or constable
in the discharge of his duties shall be liable, upon conviction,
to punishment in the same manner and to the same extent
as if he had resisted a constable of Washington County; and
any policeman, bailiff or constable so appointed who shall be
guilty of official misconduct, shall be proceeded against by
presentment and indictment in the Circuit Court for Wash-
ington County, and if found guilty, shall be fined or impris-
oned, or both, in the discretion of the Court.