ART. 11.] FREDERICK COUNTY. 569

78. The burgess shall have power to issue subpoenas for wit-
nesses, and may enforce their attendance by attachment, and
the said burgess and any justice of the peace, and tha constables
and witnesses shall be severally entitled to the same fees and
allowance, as in cases for the recovery of small debts.

79. The burgess, or any justice of the peace for said county,
may commit to the alms-house of said county, any vagrant or
pauper, fortune teller, habitual beggar, or any person that begs
from house to house, or from passers by, or any person having
no Visible means of employment, from property or labor, or
whose permanent support is not provided by his relations or
friends, or any person who cannot give account of the means by
which he obtains his livelihood, found within said town; and the
keeper of the alms-house shall receive and safe keep all persons
so committed, according to the tenor of the commitment, and
put any such person to work, according to his ability.

80. The said corporation shall not issue any note, token, certi-
ficate or evidence of debt, to circulate as currency.

FREDERICK.

81. The citizens of Frederick, in Frederick county, are a body
corporate, by the name of the mayor, aldermen and common
council of Frederick, and as such shall have perpetual succession,
and by their corporate name may sue- and be 'sued, purchase and
hold real, personal and mixed property, and may have and use a
common seal.

82. The limits of Frederick, the boundaries of the wards, lots,
streets, lanes and alleys in said town, are as described on the
surveys and plats thereof, in the office of the register of Frede-
rick, and the said plats shall be received as evidence of the'limits
and boundaries of the said city, and the wards, lots, streets, lanes
and alleys thereof.

83. All free white male citizens above the age of twenty-one
years, having resided in said city twelve months next preceding
the election, shall be entitled to vote for mayor, aldermen, and a
member of the council, as herein directed, and all elections shall
be by ballot.