848 TALBOT COUNTY. [ART. 20.

streets, lanes and alleys, agreeably to the order of the commis-
sioners; shall disperse, without or with the assistance of the
posse comitatus, which he is hereby authorized to summon, all
disorderly or tumultuous meetings of slaves, free negroes, or
other dissolute or disorderly persons'who may be obstructing the
footways in the town, and may punish, with moderate correction,
negroes and slaves found gambling or frolicking at any time or
place within the town, or strolling about the streets at night,
after the hour of ten o'clock, and may arrest and secure all Sab-
bath breakers, vagrants, drunken persons and disturbers of the
public peace, and carry them before a justice of the peace, to be
dealt with according to law, and shall fully execute all lawful
orders of the said commissioners.

58. The clerk of the market shall, before he acts as such, make
oath before the commissioners, that he will diligently and faith-
fully perform the duties of his office to the best of his skill and
judgment, without favor, affection or partiality, and that he will
not, directly or indirectly, demand or receive for his services as
clerk of the market, any fee or reward, except such compensation
as shall be allowed by the commissioners.

59. The commissioners may allow their clerk, bailiff, assessor,
collector, clerk of the market, treasurer and scavenger, respect-
ively, such compensation as they may deem reasonable.

60. If any of the officers mentioned in the preceding section,
shall die, resign, or refuse to act, the commissioners may appoint
another in his place, and they may remove any officer for misbe-
havior or neglect of duty.

61. The said commissioners may from time to time cause the
white male inhabitants of the town, above the age of eighteen
years, to be enrolled, and arrange them into convenient com-
panies or classes, and may require their services, in rotation,
whenever a majority of the voters in said town, on being duly
notified and assembled, shall determine that there is a necessity
for their attendance as a guard or patrol, and the said commis-
sioners may enforce their attendance and duty, under such
penalties as they may think proper.

62- The said commissioners may levy and collect from the
owners or keepers, a tax of one dollar on every dog, and one
dollar and fifty cents on every bitch, owned, kept or harbored in