532                          LAWS OF MARYLAND.                 [CH. 197'

who shall feel aggrieved by said decision, shall have the right
of appeal to the Circuit Court for Prince George's County
within ten days after the decision has been made.

The Mayor and Common Council are hereby empowered to
borrow money for the purpose of public improvements in said
town, in such sums as they may deem proper in their discretion
not to exceed in the aggregate the sum of twenty-five thousand,
dollars, such sum or sums of money to be payable at such
times as the said Mayor and Common Council may agree
upon with the lenders, subject to the limitation hereinafter set
forth, and to issue therefor bonds in sums of not less than one
hundred dollars nor more than five hundred dollars each; each
bond to be signed by the said Mayor and Common Council
and countersigned by the clerk thereof, and all of them to be
issued at the option of the Common Council 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 Seat Pleasant, the
said Common Council to annually set aside as a sinking fund
a sum not less than twenty-five per cent, of the municipal taxes
collected as such during each succeeding year, until 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 carry 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 thereto1 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 lockup, if any
be provided, or until the fine and costs be paid, or sentence1