ALBERT C. RITCHIE, GOVERNOR. 799
such bonds as may have been issued by said Common Council
shall mature, as provided in this or any other Act, when said
fund shall be applied to the liquidation and redemption of the
same.
The Mayor and Common Council of Seat Pleasant shall keep
and annually publish a tabular statement of the receipts and
expenditures of the funds of the corporation, and such other
matters connected with the government and regulations of the
town affairs as they may deem necessary and proper.
The Mayor and Common Council may pass all ordinances
necessary to cany out and enforce the foregoing provisions and
to give full force and effect to the powers and authority con-
ferred on said corporation and may enforce said ordinances by
reasonable fines and penalties; it may recover said fines and
penalties by action of debt, And in addition thereto the Mayor
sitting as a judge may order the confinement of the parties or
party convicted of violating any such ordinance and failing
to pay such fine or penalty, until said fine or penalty shall be
paid, not exceeding thirty days in the town lock-up, if any be
provided, 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 regu-
larly hired to perform such labor, or in the County jail, and the
sheriff of Prince George's County shall receive and confine any
person so committed.
SEC. 10. And be it further enacted, That every officer of said
town, whether elected or appointed, shall, before entering upon
the duties of his office, make oath that he will diligently and
faithfully, without favor, affection or partiality, execute the
duties of his office. The elective officers of said town shall make
such oath before any Justice of the Peace or Notary Public of
Prince George's County, and the appointive officers before the
Mayor of said town, who shall have the power to administer
oaths within said town. The certificate of said oath shall be filed
with either the Mayor or the Clerk of said Council.
The Mayor and Treasurer of said town shall, before assuming
their duties as such officers, also take the oath of office before
the Clerk of the Circuit Court of Prince George's County,
Maryland, who shall administer the oath prescribed herein for
town officers of Seat Pleasant.
SEC. 11. The Council shall annually appoint three persons
as officers of registration, whose duty it shall be to enter in al-
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