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LAWS OF MARYLAND.

twelve and one hundred and thirteen of article twenty Public Local Laws, title " Talbot county, " sub-title "Oxford, " be and the same is hereby repealed and re-enacted so as to read as follows:

Elect five commissioners.

99. All male inhabitants above the age of twenty-one years, who shall have had a bona-fide residence in said town for six months and twelve months in the State next preceding the election, or who shall be the holders of real property within the limits of said town, and have resided six months in Talbot county and twelve months in the State, shall on the first Monday of June in each year, at such time and place as shall be designated by the commissioners, elect five persons who have resided in said town at least twelve months next preceding the ejection, commissioners of said town.

Be vested.

108. All property of said town shall be vested in said commissioners, and they may collect all wharfage due and taxes levied by them as other taxes are collected.

Levy taxes

110. They may levy and collect taxes in said town not exceeding in any year fifty cents on the hundred dollars on the assessable property in said town, and shall once in three years appoint an assessor, who shall, under oath, value and assess the property in said town, in the same manner and with like authority as county assessors.

Appoint bailiffs

112. The said commissioners may annually appoint one or more persons to perform the duties of bailiff or collector within the limits of said town Whitehall take an oath before some justice of the peace for Talbot county to faithfully perform their duties without favor, affection or partiality according to the best of their skill and judgment, and who shall give

Give bond

bond in the same manner and in the same penalty as the constables of Talbot county.

Duty of bailiff.

113. The bailiff shall preserve order, keep the peace, serve processes, abate nuisances and execute all orders of the board of commissioners, and shall have power to command the peace, arrest offenders, collect moneys due the corporation, and do all such