ART. 17.] QUEEN ANNE'S COUNTY. 7&.7

market, and the said clerk shall have a reasonable compensation
for his services, to be fixed by the said commissioners.

61.' The clerk of the marke't shall take charge of the market
house and market, and shall examine and inspect the victuals
and provisions brought thereto for sale, and if any shall be found
unsound or unwholesome, shall seize and destroy the same.

62. He shall examine and try the weight of any butter brought
to the said market, and if short of weight, shall seize and sell the
same at public sale.

63. He shall try the weights, scales and measures used at said
market by the standards of the county, and if any be found false
or untrue, shall seize the same, and after they are properly
adjusted, sell them at public sale, and shall account for the pro-
ceeds of all sales under this and the preceding section, to the said
commissioners.

64. All fines,/penalties and forfeitures which may be incurred
under the provisions of this article relating to the town ofCentre-
ville, shall be recovered before a justice of the peace for Queen
Anne's county, in the name of the said commissioners, as small
debts, and applied to the benefit of said town.

CHUBCH HILI.

65. The free white male housekeepers or heads of families
residing in the village of Church Hill,; in Queen Anne's county,
and persona holding real property therein, shall, on the third
Monday of March annually, at some public place in said village,
elect by ballot three persons residing in said village, commis-
sioners of Church Hill.

66. If any vacancy shall happen in the office of commissioner
by death, resignation, removal or otherwise, the remaining com-
missioners shall canse an election to be held to supply the same,
and ten days' previous notice shall be given of such election.

67. The said commissioners may mark and bound the limits of
said village to any extent to which the property of the inhabitants
may extend, and may enact such by-laws or ordinances, not con-
trary to law, as they may deem proper for the preservation of
order in said village, and such by-laws shall be recorded in a