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Session Laws, 1939
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1202 LAWS OF MARYLAND. [CH. 603

and all property of the person, company or corporation against
whom they may be levied, and the taxes for each year are
payable on the 1st day of September next succeeding the levy
thereof, and shall be in arrears and subject to interest at the
rate of Six Per Cent from and after the 1st day of October
next succeeding the levy thereof.

84G. All taxes, fines, forfeitures and penalties imposed by
the President and Commissioners by any law or ordinance
shall be applied to the use of the Town as may, from time
to time, be directed by the President and Commissioners, by
whom an annual statement of receipts and disbursements shall
be made, and be open for the inspection of the citizens of the
Town; all such fines, penalties and forfeitures may be recov-
ered before a Justice of the Peace in the same manner as fines,
penalties and forfeitures are recovered by law, and for the
non-payment of such fines, penalties and forfeitures, the of-
fender shall be committed to the County Jail for a period not
exceeding thirty days.

84H. The Commissioners of said Town shall appoint three
persons from among the voters thereof, who shall give at
least ten days' notice, by posting not less than five written
or printed notices in conspicuous public places in said Town
of the time and place at which said election shall be held, and
the said judges of election, before opening the polls, shall
make oath or affirmation before some officer authorized to
administer oaths, that they will fairly and impartially act as
judges of said election; and the said judges shall keep the
polls open from 6. 00 P. M. until 8. 00 P. M., and shall record
the names of the voters, and after the closing of the polls shall
count the ballots and announce the results and make and sign
a certificate thereof to be filed among the records of said
corporation.

84-I. The Commissioners may pass all by-laws and ordi-
nances necessary to give effect to the powers vested in them by
this charter, and impose fines, penalties and forfeitures for
the breach of their by-laws and ordinances; but no ordinance
shall impose a fine, penalty or forfeiture for any one offense
of more than $25. 00, nor more than thirty days in the County
Jail or both, in the discretion of the Court.

84J. The Commissioners of said Town are authorized to
pass ordinances and by-laws for the regulation, good govern-
ment, improvement and comfort of the said corporation and
the inhabitants thereof; to suppress vice, crime and immoral-
ity, to restrain disorder and disturbances of the peace and to
prevent and remove nuisances within said corporation.


 

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