ALBERT C. RITCHIE, GOVERNOR, 493

of any person violating any town ordinance, when in the judg-
ment of the said Mayor, or of the constable or police of the
town, the delay necessary to the issuing of warrants would be
dangerous to the peace and quiet of the town, or to the lives,
limbs or property of the citizens; and when it shall appear that
offender is intoxicated so as to render it unsafe to permit him
to ride or drive through the streets of said town, shall provide
for the custody of the horses, vehicle or vehicles, ridden or
driven by such persons, in some place of safety until such
offender or offenders shall become sober; and the said Commis-
sioners shall by ordinance, subject the property so taken and
deposited to the payment of all costs of the proceedings, and
the keeping of the said property, until the same shall be re-
leased according to law.

SEC. 15. And be it enacted, That the bailiff and that the
other officers of the peace appointed by the said Commissioners,
under the powers conferred by this Act, are hereby vested with
the same power and authority as any constable or police officer
may have under the laws of the State.

SEC. 16. And be it enacted, That the said Commissioners
shall have the power to levy and collect taxes in said town, not
exceeding in any one year one and one-quarter cents on the
dollar on all assessable property in said town, on the same basis
of assessment as the said property shall for the said year be
assessed for State and county purposes; provided, that all prop-
erty in said corporate limits used for agricultural purposes
shall only be assessed as such agricultural property and not as
town lots. The said Commissioners of Highland Beach shall,
annually, on or before March 1st of each year, certify to the
County Commissioners of Anne Arundel County the rate of
taxation desired by them to be assessed and collected on the

property within the corporate limits of said town, and such rate
or percentage shall be by the county authorities duly extended
upon said property upon the tax books of said county in a
separate column, said taxes to be extended upon the certificate
of the Commissioners as aforesaid, and collected in the same
way and with the same fees and commissions to officers, if any,
as State and county taxes are extended and collected; and in
default of payment of said taxes, the county authorities shall
enforce the collection thereof in the same manner as is pro-
vided by law for the collection of State and county taxes. Said
taxes shall be received by the county treasurer, and shall be
paid by him as received to the treasurer of Highland Beach.