ALBERT C. RITCHIE, GOVERNOR. 595
lars each; each bond to be 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 Cobb
Island, the said Town Commissioners to annually set aside as a
sinking fund a sum not less than twenty per cent, of the munici-
pal taxes collected as such during 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 redemp-
tion of the same.
SEC. 34. 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 located
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, which-
ever shall first occur.
SEC. 35. And be it further enacted, That the said Town
Commissioners of Cobb Island shall on or before the first day
of April in each year, make out and post at two or more public
places in the said town a full and detailed statement of all
moneys received and disbursements made for the use and bene-
fit of the said town, and for failure so to do, shall be guilty of a
misdemeanor and subject to a fine of not less than ten nor more
than twenty-five dollars for each offense and the costs of prose-
cution in the discretion of the Justice of the Peace before whom,
the claim shall be made, by any voter or taxpayer of the said
town, to be recovered before any Justice of the Peace as other
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