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open and close streets, lanes and alleys, grade and pave the same, remove
nuisances and obstructions therefrom, restrain all disorder and disturb-
ances, prevent all congregations of disorderly persons, apprehend all
tramps and vagabonds, impose a tax on all animals running at large in the
streets, or totally prohibit the same; and may 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; 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 conditions thereof.

1914, ch. 113, sec. 14.

28. The Commissioners may as often as they deem advisable cause an
assessment to be made of all the real and personal property within said
town or the corporate limits thereof, by a person to be appointed and paid
by them, and the Commissioners may levy a tax thereon, not exceeding
forty cents on the hundred dollars' worth of assessable property in any
one year.

1914, ch. 113, sec. 15.

29. Any person dissatisfied with the assessment, may appeal to the
Commissioners at their first meeting after such assessment is made, and
the said Commissioners shall increase or abate such assessment as they
deem just.

1914, ch. 113, sec. 16.

30. Whenever the Commissioners shall levy a tax they shall cause to
be made out a list of the persons charged therein, and cause to be affixed
thereto the respective sums to be collected from such persons and a warrant
to the bailiff to collect the same.

1914, ch. 113, sec. 17.

31. The bailiff shall, within ten days after the receipt of such list and
warrant, render to each person named herein an account or tax bill show-
ing the amount due by him, if he be a resident of the town, and if he
be a non-resident, and in consequence thereof cannot conveniently be
served with said account or tax bill, he shall publish such account or tax
bill in some newspaper of St. Mary's County at the expense of the tax-
payer, and may, unless the same be paid within thirty days after the
delivery or publication on an account or tax bill, collect the same, with all
costs, by distress and sale of the real and personal property of the delin-
quent at public auction, after giving at least ten days' notice of such
sale published in some St. Mary's County newspaper or by printed or
written hand bills posted in not less than three public places, and upon
such sale of real estate the president of the Commission shall execute and
deliver to the purchaser or purchasers a deed of the property sold, which
deed shall be presumptive evidence that all the requirements of the law
have been complied with in making such sale and deed.