The board of county commissioners shall have power to preserve order when sitting as a board, and may punish contempts by fines not exceeding Five Dollars ($5.00), or by imprisonment in the county jail not exceeding twenty-four (24) hours; they may force obedience to all orders made by attachment or other compulsory process, and when fines are assessed by them the same may be collected before any justice of the peace having jurisdiction, and shall be paid over as other fines within ten (10) days after they are collected.
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