446 CECIL COUNTY. [ART. 8.

70. The commissioners BO elected may meet and adjourn from
• time to time as they may think proper, and shall, at their first
meeting, which shall be within one month after their election,
choose from their own body a president, who shall preside at all
meetings of the commissioners, vote on all questions before
them, and remain in office until superseded by the appointment
of a new president after a new election of commissioners.

71. The said 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 said
town; to suppress all disorderly meetings ofnegroes and others;

to prevent firing cannon, guns, squibs, or any kind of firearms or
fireworks, in said town; to suppress and abate all nuisances; to
prevent swine and geese from going at large; to prevent any im-
moderate driving through the streets with carriage, stage, cart,
wagon or other vehicle, or on horseback, so as to endanger the
lives, limbs or property of the citizens of said town or disturb
the quiet enjoyment of the streets and thoroughfares; and to
prevent the parading and indecent exhibition of any stud horse
through the streets; and may impose fines, not exceeding ten
dollars for any offence, on any person violating said ordinances.

72. They may provide by ordinance for the immediate arrest,
without warrant, of any person violating any town ordinance by
driving through the streets, when in the judgment of the presi-
dent or any two of said commissioners the delay necessary to the
issuing of a warrant would be dangerous to the peace and quiet
of the town, or the lives, limbs and property of its 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, shall
provide for the removal of the horse and vehicle without the
limits of the town, or for the deposit thereof in some place of
safety until the offender shall be sober.

73. They shall have power to determine and establish the
limits of said town, and extend the same if they deem it ex-
pedient, and they shall file with the clerk of the Circuit Court
for Cecil county a description of the boundaries by them esta-
blished; which shall be deemed a record of the boundaries of the
town.

74. They shall have power to establish the limits and width of
the streets of said town, and to remove obstructions therefrom,