ART. 12.] HABFORD COUNTY, 615

49. The commissioners shall have power to meet from time to
time as they shall deem proper, and shall, at their first meeting
after an 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questions before them, and remain in office until superseded by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.

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

51. All ordinances passed by the commissioners shall be en-
tered by the clerk in a book to be kept by him for that purpose,
and shall be open at all times to the inspection of any person
interested, and copies of all ordinances shall be published in all
the newspapers of the town, and shall also be put up in the most
public places in the town.

52. They may lay out and continue to the Susquehanna River
and the basin of the Tide Water Canal, the streets designated
on the plat of said town as Jefferson, Madison, Monroe, Van
Buren and Erie streets.

53. They shall determine what was high water mark before
the construction of the basin of the Tide Water Canal.

54. They shall have power to build and erect wharves at the
ends of any of the streets, and to charge reasonable wharfage
for vessels lying at the same, but shall not extend any street or
build any wharf to the prejudice or injury of any individual
without making compensation for such injury.

55. Any person aggrieved by the decision of the commission-
ers in fixing the line or point of high water mark may, at any
time within one year, appeal to the Circuit Court for Harford
county, and the said court shall hear testimony and review the
decision.

56. The said commissioners shall have power to levy and col-
lect taxes in said town, not exceeding in any one year thirty
cents in the hundred dollars on the assessable property of said
town.