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may pass all ordinances necessary to give effect and operation
to the power vested in said corporation, provided that no ordi-
nance or by-laws shall impose a fine of more than twenty dollars
for any one offense, or in default of payment thereof, authorize
a commitment to the jail of Frederick County, for a period of
not more than thirty days. In all cases in which any person
shall be found guilty of violating any of the ordinances of the
corporation of Woodsboro, it shall be lawful, upon conviction
of the offender, to impose the fine prescribed by the particular
ordinance under which said person is tried, and upon failure or
refusal of the party convicted thereof, to pay such fine and
costs, to commit the person convicted to the jail of Frederick
County for the time prescribed in said ordinance, unless the
person convicted shall pay such fine and costs before the day
limited in the commitment, in which case the Burgess or officer
who tried the case, shall issue his order to the sheriff to release
said person. The Sheriff of Frederick County shall receive and
safe keep in the jail of said County, all persons who shall be
committed thereto for a breach of any of the ordinances or
laws of said corporation, according to the tenor of the commit-
ment, and in the same manner and under the same regulations
as persons committed for a violation of the laws of the State.
And said Sheriff shall receive the sum of twenty-five cents per
day for boarding and keeping any such offenders.

SEC. 17. And be it further enacted, That all fines and for-
feitures shall be recovered in the name and for the use of the
Burgess and Commissioners of Woodsboro and all commitments
shall be signed by the Burgess or a Justice of the Peace residing
in Woodsboro District in Frederick County, Maryland.

SEC. 18. And be it further enacted, That this Act is hereby
declared to be an emergency law and necessary for the imme-
diate preservation of the public safety and being passed on a
yea and nay vote, supported by three-fifths of all of the members
elected to each of the two Houses of the General Assembly of
Maryland, the same shall take effect from the date of its
passage.

Approved April 2, 1929.