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LAWS OF MARYLAND.

Any ordinance returned by the Burgess with his disapproval

shall not become a law unless subsequently passed at the first

regular meeting thereafter by a four-fifths vote of the Council.

566. The Burgess and Council shall have power to compel

Turnpike
roads within

all turnpike companies whose roads, or any part thereof, lie

limits of
town.

within the limits of the town, to perform all the duties and ob-

ligations imposed upon them by their respective charters or

the laws of this State; upon such parts thereof as are within

the limits of the town, and shall have power to enter into ar-

rangements with the said turnpike companies in relation to

the grading, paving and repairing of the parts of their respec-

tive roads lying within the limits of the town.

56C. The several turnpike companies owning roads running

Ceding of
same to the

into the town may cede to the town such parts of their roads

town.

as lie within the limits of the town upon such terms as may be

agreed upon between the Burgess and Council and said com-

panies and the same when ceded shall in all respects be sub-

ject to the same regulations as the public streets of the town.

56D. The Burgess and Council shall have the right to con-

Right to con-
demn roads.

demn the parts of all public highways lying within the limits

of the town for public use and to open, widen, straighten or

close up the same in whole or in part; provided, free access

is allowed to all public roads running to the limits of the town

through the highways of the town.

56E. For the enforcement of the town ordinances the Bur-

Burgess con-
stituted police

gess shall be and he is hereby constituted the police justice

justice of the
town.

of Boonsborough and for the enforcement of said ordinances

shall have all the powers, privileges and immunities conferred

by law upon a justice of the peace. He shall be furnished with

copies of the ordinances of the town and shall keep a docket

for corporation cases and therein record and make regular

entries of the proceeding's in all such cases setting forth the fine

or imprisonment imposed and the amount of costs, and he shall

submit said docket to the inspection of any person who may

request to see the same, and upon demand of any person in-

terested shall deliver a copy of any judgment rendered by him.

It shall be the duty of said Burgess to make out a summarized

statement of all corporation cases tried before him with the

fines and costs therein collected, which statement shall be sub-

mitted semi-annually to the Council after being sworn to before

a justice of the peace ; upon the request of the Council the said

Burgess shall produce his docket and may be placed under

oath and interrogated as to the entries therein. He shall pay