658 KENT COUNTY. [ART. 14.

47. The person so appointed shall give bond to the commis-
sioners, with such security and in such penalty as they shall
direct, for the faithful performance of his duties, and for the pay-
ment to them or their order of all money.collected or received
by him, and the said bond shall be recorded in the office of the
clerk of the Circuit Court for Kent county within ten days after
the same shall be executed.

48. The said commissioners may have public pumps erected
in such parts of the town as they may deem necessary, and may
change their situation at pleasure, and may employ a person or
persons to keep them in repair; may provide for licensing and
regulating the sweeping of chimneys and fixing the rates thereof;

may establish and regulate fire wards and fire companies, and
appoint fit and proper persons to keep the streets, lanes, alleys
and public grounds in good order and repair.

49. They may use the building known as the old clerk's office
for holding their meetings and keeping their records and papers.

50. The said commissioners may appoint, and at their pleasure
dismiss, a wood corder or wood corders for said town, and may
regulate the cording of wood and fix the prices for cording the
same; but they shall not require any wood offered for sale in
said town from carts or wagons, by the original owner, to be
corded, unless at the option of the seller.

51. They may fix on the proper places for erecting engine
houses and hanging ladders in said town, either on the public
grounds or buildings or private property, if the owner consent
thereto, and shall settle and ascertain the extent of the precincts
to said town.

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52. The owner of every house in Chestertown or its precincts
shall furnish the same with a good jack leathern bucket or
buckets, having the initials of the owner's name marked thereon
with oil colors, according to the valuation of houses in said town,
that is to say: all houses the valuation of which shall be two
hundred dollars and not exceeding four hundred shall be fur-
nished with one bucket; all houses the valuation of which shall
be above four hundred dollars and not exceeding eight hundred
shall be furnished with two buckets; all houses.above eight hun-
dred dollars and not exceeding fifteen hundred shall be furnished