556 FREDERICK COUNTT. [ART. 11.

the corporation, for all purposes necessary for carrying into effect
the by-laws and. ordinances of the town.

fi2. They nifty, snbjent to the approval of the burgess, provide
by ordinance for making a new assessment of all the real and
personal property in said town as often as it may seem necessary;

for punishing, corporally, any servant or slave guilty of any
breach of their ordinances, unless the master pay the fine and
co.sts annexed to the offence; and may pass all ordinances neces-
sary to give effect and operation to all the powers hereby vested
in said corporation.

63. They shall not levy a tax exceeding twenty cents on the
hundred dollars of assessable property in any one year.

64. They may direct, by ordinance, all or any of the footways
in said town to be laid off and levelled, paved, curbed, and
mended, with any material which to them may seem best, at the
expense of the proprietors of the different lots, or portions of
lots, before which the burgess and commissioners shall direct the
same to be done.

65. If the owner of any house, lot, or part of a lot, where such
levelling, curbing, paving or mending shall be directed to be
done, shall not reside in said town, the tenant or person occupy-
ing the same, or who has charge thereof, shall cause the same to
be done before the front of sncb possession, and the money ex-
pended by such tenant or other person in and about said work,
in obedience to the ordinance of the corporation, shall be allowed
by the owner, and deducted from the rent due or to become
due.

66. If the owner or tenant of any house or lot, or part of a.
lot, or the person having the care of the same, shall refuse or neg-
lect to have such work done in obedience to the ordinances of
the corporation, the burgess and commissioners may contract, on
reasonable terms, for such work, and recover the expense thereof,
with costs, by distress on the property.

67. A constable may be appointed for said town, in such
manner and with such compensation as may be directed by
ordinance, who shall, within the limits of the corporation, except
in cases of civil process, have all the powers of a constable; and,
in like manner, a collector of taxes imposed by the corporation,