ART. 11.] FREDERICK COUNTY. 601

before the burgess that he will faithfully and honestly, to the
best of his skill and judgment, exercise the powers given and
discharge the duties required of him as a commissioner of
Woodsboro', impartially and without favor or resentment to any,
and without delay.

332. The burgess and commissioners shall meet, from time to
time, as often as occasion may require, upon the business of the
town, and not less than once in every three months; and the bur-
gess shall preside at all meetings, and shall sign all ordinances
passed by the commissioners, or a majority of them.

333. The commissioners, or a majority of them, may appoint a
clerk, and prescribe his duties, and allow him such compensation
as they may think proper.

334. The clerk shall enter all ordinances passed by the com-
missioners, or a majority of them, in a book to be kept by him
for that purpose, and they shall at all times be open to the in-
spection of any person interested, and-copies of all ordinances
shall be put up in the most public places in the town.

335. The commissioners, or a majority of them, shall have
power to make all such by-laws and ordinances as they may
deem wise, equitable and expedient for the comfort, health, con-
venience, and prosperity of the town and its inhabitants; for the
prevention or removal of nuisances; preservation of health, and
suppression of vice and immorality; to prevent the firing of guns
or crackers, horse racing, cock fighting, and all other such im-
proper practices, within the limits of the corporation.

336. They shall have power to have an assessment made of the
value of all the property within the taxable limits of the town,
and to lay an equal tax on the same to such amount as may from
time to time be deemed necessary for the uses of the said corpo-
ration; which tax shall be collected by the burgess, who shall have
the same power to distrain therefor as the collectors of county
taxes have, and they may allow the said burgess such compensa-
tion for collecting said taxes as they shall deem proper.

337. They shall have power to have the streets, lanes and
alleys graded and curb-stones planted, and the streets paved with
the consent of two-thirds of the owners of the property fronting
on the street, lane or alley to be graded or paved; to establish