582 FREDERICK COUNTY. [ART. 11.

218. If the persons elected commissioners shall fail to take the
oath prescribed in the preceding section, within ten days after
notice of their election shall be communicated to them, in
writing, by the person who under the ordinances of the town
may be appointed to hold such election, the said judge shall,
within five days thereafter, order as election to fill the vacancy
of such as do not qualify.

219. If the judge of election shall refuse or neglect to call an
election to fill such vacancy, or should said offices oranyofthem
at any time become vacant, any justice of the peace, residing in
said town, shall call a new election on the application of three or
more qualified voters of said town, within ten days after such ap-
plication , and if any justice shall, upon such application, refuse
to call an election, he shall be subject to a fine of fifty dollars,
one-half to the persons making the application, the other half to
the use of the corporation.

220. The burgess and commissioners of said town may meet
as often as occasion may require, upon the business of the cor-
poration, at which meetings the burgess shall preside; they may
appoint a clerk, and assign his duties, and allow him such com-
pensation for his services as they may think proper.

221. The clerk shall enter all ordinances passed by the burgess
and commissioners, and signed by the burgess, in a book to be
kept by him for that purpose, and they shall at all times be open
to the inspection of any person interested, and copies of all or-
dinances shall be put up in the most public places in said town.

222. The burgess shall, in virtue of his office, have and exer-
cise all the powers of a justice of the peace, and be entitled to
the same fees.

228. The commissioners may enact by-laws and ordinances for
the following purposes, to wit: to grade, level and repair side-
walks ; to construct causeways; regulate and keep in repair
streets, lanes and alleys; to regulate party walls and partition
fences; the sweeping and burning of chimneys; to restrain and
prohibit gaming; to provide for licensing or restraining theatri-
cal or other public exhibitions and amusements within the town;

for the prevention and extingui shment of fires, and the purchase and
keeping in repair and preservation a fire engine and apparatus; to
license or prevent dogs from running at large in the town, and for