160 LAWS OF MARYLAND. [CH. 61

the registered voters of said town, who are resident-tax-
payers upon real property in said town, any ordinance,
consistent with law, for the government of said town, shall
be submitted by said Commission, for adoption or rejection
by the registered voters of said town, within thirty (30)
days, (including Sundays and holidays), after such peti-
tion shall have been filed with said Commission at one of
the regular monthly meetings of said Commission. Pro-
vided, however, (a) that such petition shall be typewritten
or printed, (b) that such petition shall set forth in com-
plete detail each and all the provisions of the ordinance, in
proper form to be submitted for adoption or rejection, (c)
that such petition shall be sworn to before the Secretary
Commissioner, as to the genuineness of the signatures
thereon or attached thereto, by the person presenting such
petition to, or filing such petition with, said Commission,
and (d) that not less than ten (10) typewritten or printed
copies of such petition be filed with said Commission at
the time that the original petition is so presented or filed.
And the election for the adoption or rejection of any such
ordinance shall be conducted in the manner provided by
Section 10 of this Act, and any such ordinance shall go into
force in the same manner as is provided for in Paragraph
A of this Section.

(C) That in order to insure the observance of such
ordinances, in addition to the action of debt or other civil
remedies as may exist by law in such cases for the recovery
of penalties or forfeiture for violations of such ordinances,
such ordinances may provide for the payment of reason-
able fines, not exceeding Fifty Dollars ($50. 00) for such
violation, and may provide that in default of payment of
any such fine the delinquent shall be committed to the
county jail of Prince George's County for a period not
exceeding thirty (30) days, or until such fine is paid. And
it shall be the duty of the Sheriff of said County to receive
any person so committed and detain the same until such
sentence shall have been served or until such fine shall have
been paid.

(D) Any Justices of the Peace that may reside in said
town or elsewhere in Prince George's County shall have
the power to hear, try and determine all criminal cases
where the Town of District Heights is a party as they may
have in cases where the State of Maryland is a party. All
such proceedings instituted by or on behalf of said town
shall be instituted in the name of the "Town of District
Heights"; all pleadings or other papers filed in such pro-