824 CECIL COUNTY. [ART. 8.

shall require and take from the treasurer a bond in a penalty to
be fixed by them for the faithful discharge of his duty as said
treasurer.

1880, ch 435

135. The president and commissioners shall have power to
pass ordinances regulating the market, the inspection, measure-
ment and weight of all provisions, grain and wood sold in and to
be consumed in the town; to suppress all disorderly meetings; to
prohibit the use of profane language, drunkenness, fighting, and
disorderly conduct in the town; to prevent the firing of cannon,
guns, squibs, or any kind of firearms or fireworks in the town;
to prevent, suppress and abate all nuisances; to prevent the
running at large in the town, of horses, cattle, swine, geese, ducks,
goats and dogs; to prevent any immoderate driving through the
streets of the town, with carriage, stage, cart, wagon or other
vehicle, or on horseback, so as endanger the lives, limbs or
property of the citizens, or disturb the quiet enjoyment of the
streets and thoroughfares; to prevent the parading and indecent
exhibition of any stallion in the town; to preserve order and
secure property and persons from violence, danger or destruction,
and they may impose fines, penalties and forfeitures for the
violation of any of said ordinances, but no fine or penalty shall
exceed the sum of ten dollars; and all fines and penalties imposed
by said ordinances shall be collected by suit before a justice of
the peace, in the name of the corporation, as other small debts
are collected; and in case of default of payment of said fines and
penalties, and costs attending the collection of the same, the
offender may be imprisoned in the county jail for a term not
exceeding twenty days.

Ibid.

136. They may provide by ordinance for the immediate arrest,
without warrant, of any person violating any town ordinance by
riotous or disorderly conduct, or driving or riding through the
streets, when, in the judgment of the president, or of any of the
commissioners, or of the bailiff of the town, the delay necessary
to the issuing of a warrant will be dangerous to the peace and
quiet of the town, or the lives, limbs or property of the citizens;
and when it shall appear that the offender is intoxicated so as to
render it unsafe to permit him to drive through the streets, they