1894                                   LAWS OF MARYLAND                                 Ch. 680

[262.

The clerk, baliff and any officer of said corporation
who shall hold or have charge of the moneys thereof shall
give bond to the Commissioners in such penalties, and with
such sureties as said Commissioners may require conditioned
for the faithful performance of their respective offices.]

[263.

The commissioners shall receive all returns of election
and determine all questions arising thereon but any person
feeling himself aggrieved by such decisions may appeal
therefrom to the Circuit Court for Calvert County which
court shall hear and determine such appeal and decide who
shall pay the cost thereof.]

[264.

The Commissioners may pass such ordinances, not
inconsistent with law as they may deem beneficial to the

town; may open and close streets, lanes and alleys,

straighten, grade and pave the same, remove nuisances and
obstructions therefrom, restrain all disorders and
disturbances, prevent all congregations of disorderly
persons in public places, apprehend and fine all tramps and
vagabonds, impose fines, penalties and forfeitures for the
violation of their ordinances, and commit all offenders to
the county jail until the same be paid with costs; they may
pass such ordinances as they may deem necessary for the

preservation of the health of the town and remove all

nuisances from, or prohibit all business within the

corporate limits thereof as shall, in their opinion,

injuriously affect the sanitary condition thereof; and as
often as they may deem advisable may cause an assessment to
be made of all real and personal property within said town,
by the baliff of said town, which assessment shall not

exceed the assessments for State and county purposes, and

they may levy a tax thereon not exceeding ten cents on the

hundred dollars of assessable property, and provided that

any person who feels aggrieved by such assessment may appeal
therefrom to said Commissioners at their first meeting after

such assessment, who shall hear and determine said appeal

and shall increase or abate such assessment as they may deem
just, and whenever the said levy is so made the said
Commissioners shall make an alphabetical list of the persons

who owe such taxes with the respective amounts so due, and

place them in the hands of the bailiff to collect.]

[265.

The bailiff shall after receipt of said tax list within
ten days render to each person named therein a tax bill
showing the amount due if the said person be a resident of
said town or in close proximity thereto, but if a
non-resident shall mail the same, if his address be known,