shall be paid for their services by said commissioners, out of the taxes levied as aforesaid.

assessments.

58. Any person may appeal from the assessment of Appeal from the assessors to the said commissioners, who may make such deductions therefrom as they may deem just, and they may add thereto the value of any property which may have been omitted in the assessment, and all buildings and improvements, and all property created or acquired since said assessment, and make transfers of such property as has changed owners since said assess

ment.

59. The commissioners may, from time to time, Town officers. under such conditions as they may by their ordinances direct, appoint such officers as they may deem necessary to carry into effect their ordinances, among whom shall be a town bailiff, who shall ex-officio be collector of the town tax, and shall, within said town, have all the authority of a constable.

60. The said bailiff shall give bond, to be approved Bailiff. by the county commissioners as other constables, for the faithful performance of his duty.as constable, and also bond to the commissioners of the said town, for the faithful performance of his duty as town bailiff, and as collector of the town tax, and the faithful performance of such duties as shall be imposed on him by the ordinances of said commissioners; and if said bailiff shall wilfully fail to discharge any duty of his office, he may be fined, at the discretion of the commissioners, not exceeding ten dollars for any one offence.

61. The said bailiff may enforce the payment of Town taxes. town taxes, in the same manner and with the like effect as collectors of state and county taxes, may enforce the payment of state and county taxes.

sewers.

62. The commissioners shall have power to make Drains and and keep in repair all requisite drains and sewers, and to make regulations for keeping them open, and if any person or persons shall wilfully stop or obstruct the passage of water through any such drains or sewers, he or they shall be subject to a fine of ten dollars and the costs of putting such drains or sewers in order.

Grading and

leveling streets.

Excavations.

Walls or fences.

Temporary use of streets.

63. The commissioners shall have power to grade and level streets and alleys, to remove nuisances and obstructions from the same, to prevent encroachments on the same by buildings or otherwise, and may pass all by-laws and ordinances necessary to give effect and operation to the powers hereby vested in them, and impose fines, penalties and forfeitures for the breach of their by-laws and ordinances; but no ordinance of said commissioners shall impose a fine, penalty or forfeiture for any one offence of more than ten dollars.

64. If any person shall excavate any lot or lots, or parts thereof, within the limits of the town of Havre de Grace in Harford county, for the purpose of obtaining moulding sand, or otherwise, to the depth of two feet or more, and the said lot or lots, or parts thereof, shall remain uncovered, it shall be the duty of such person to make and keep in constant repair good and sufficient underdrains, that will carry off all water that may collect and would otherwise remain in them, in the part or parts thereof so excavated, and said underdrains shall be well covered and secured so as not to endanger or incommode the public travel, or other proper use of any street or alley through which the same shall pass.

65. Where the excavation of any lot or lots or parts thereof, as aforesaid, to a depth of two feet or more adjoins any of the streets or alleys in the town of Havre de Grace aforesaid, it shall be the duty of the owner or owners of such lot or lots to immediately erect and keep in constant repair good and sufficient walls or fences along such streets and alleys, or parts thereof, where such excavations so adjoin so as effectually to protect such thoroughfares from injury, and render the use thereof by the public as safe and convenient as before such excavations were made.

66. The commissioners of Havre de Grace shall consent to the temporary use of any street or public thoroughfare of the said town, which may be required to enable the owner of any excavated lot or lots, as aforesaid, to comply with the provisions of the preced

ing sections in constructing the said underdrains, walls or fences.

67. The said commissioners shall have full power to prescribe fines and penalties not less than ten nor more than one hundred dollars, against the owner of any excavated lot or lots as aforesaid, who, after receiving ten days' notice in writing, shall refuse or neglect to comply with the provisions of the three preceding sections, and the fines and penalties prescribed as aforesaid, shall be recoverable in the name of the said corporation before a justice of the peace of Harford county, and when collected shall be paid to the treasurer duly appointed by the commissioners aforesaid, for the sole use and benefit of the said corporation.

Fines and pen

alties.

vested.

68. All the property held by former commissioners How property of Havre de Grace, under law grants or otherwise, is vested in the said commissioners.

69. The said commissioners may borrow on the faith Loans. of the corporation of said town any sum of money not exceeding five thousand dollars, and may issue bonds for the same bearing the regular legal interest of this state, and in such sums and payable at such times as the commissioners may direct, not exceeding twenty dollars, but they shall not issue any note, token or evidence of debt to be used as currency.

footways.

Sub-Sec. 1. The said commissioners may direct by Paving, &c., ordinances all or any of the footways within the taxable limits of the town, to be laid off, levelled and paved, or repaired with such materials as they may deem best, at the expense of the proprietors of the different lots, in front of which the same shall be done; provided, that said commissioners shall first grade said Proviso. footway, and place curbstones to the same at the expense of the corporation.

&c.

Sub-Sec. 2. If any owner or tenant of any house or Neglect to pave, lot or part of a lot, or the person having charge thereof, shall refuse or neglect to pave or repair the footway in front of the same, according to the ordinance of the commissioners, the commissioners, or a majority of them, may contract with some person on reasonable

Remedy.

Supervisor.

Almshouse.

Fines, how collected.

Sheriff.

terms to have or repair the same, and may collect the expense thereof, with costs, by distress on such property.

Sub-Sec. 3. The commissioners may appoint a supervisor of streets, lanes and alleys of the town and precincts, and may order and direct in what manner the streets, lanes and alleys shall be kept and repaired.

Sub-Sec. 4. The commissioners shall have power to provide for and take care of any person or persons suffering from accident or otherwise who are unable to take care of themselves, and if deemed necessary shall have them sent to the almshouse of Harford county, and all expenses so incurred shall be repaid to the commissioners by the county commissioners of Harford county, who are hereby authorized and required to levy annually for such amounts, payable to the commissioners of Havre de Grace.

Sub-Sec. 5. All fines imposed by any ordinance of said commissioners may be collected in the name of the commissioners before a justice of the peace similar to the mode of collecting small debts, and the delinquent shall stand committed to the county jail until the same is paid with costs. The sheriff of Harford county shall receive and safely keep in the jail of said county all persons who shall be committed by any justice of the peace of said town to said jail for breach or violation of any of the ordinances of said town, according to the tenor of the commitment, and in the same manner and under the same regulations as persons committed for the violation of the laws of the state.

This act further enacts that this act shall take effect from the date of its passage, and the general assembly reserves to itself the right to amend, alter or repeal this act at pleasure.

In force and approved March 20, 1868.

ROADS.

By the act of 1868. c. 219 the county commissioners of Harford county are authorized, upon the application of William S. Bowman, to cause to be located and laid out for him a private road from the land of said Bowman, which is described in a

deed from Henry Bowman, senior, to Henry W. Archer, over the best and most convenient location for such road, in the manner now provided by law for locating and opening private roads, and in making such road may cause any fruit trees standing in the way to be removed; provided such commisssioners are satisfied that said road ought to be granted; and, provided, also, that said Bowman shall pay the costs and expenses of locating and making such road, and such damages as may be assessed in the manner prescribed by law.

SHERIFF.

1868, c. 135 amends and re-enacts section 135 so as to read as follows:

135. He shall be entitled to forty-five cents per day 1868, c. 135,

for boarding each prisoner confined in said jail.

Boarding pri

soners.

In force and approved March 17, 1868, to continue in force for four years.

See, as to bridge at Elkridge Landing, the act of 1868, c. 261, under Public Local Laws, Art. II, Anne Arundel County.

COUNTY COMMISSIONERS.

1868, c. 395 repeals section 8 and enacts the following in lieu thereof:

SEC. 8. The collector for the first collection district 1868, c. 395. Compensation shall receive four per cent., and the collector for the to collectors. second collection district four per cent., on all sums by