422 LAWS OF MARYLAND. [CH. 249

sand 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 limitations here-
inafter 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, such bond or other evidences of debt to be the general
obligations of the Town of Seat Pleasant. 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 receiv-
able 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 re-
demption 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
conferred on said corporation and may enforce said ordi-
nances by reasonable fines and penalties; it may recover said
fines and penalties by action of debt, And in addition thereto
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 sentence said offender to hard labor for a sufficient length
of time until said labor will satisfy the fine and costs, the
price allowed for the labor thus done to be the same as that
allowed for persons regularly hired to perform such labor, or
in the county jail, and the sheriff of Prince George's County
shall receive and confine any person so committed.

SEC. 2. And be it further enacted, That a new section be
added to Chapter 197 of the Acts of the General Assembly of