3260 ARTICLE 15.

P. L. L., 1888, Art. 15, sec. 194. 1867, ch. 47.

375. The limits of said town shall be a square, whose sides shall meas-
ure five hundred yards each, and shall be marked out and bounded by the
said commissioners, but shall not extend into Cecil county; the said lines
to be recorded in the record books of said commissioners.

P. L. L., 1888, Art. 15, sec. 195. 1867, ch. 47.

376. The said commissioners shall have full power to make all such
laws, regulations and ordinances, not inconsistent with the laws of this
State, as from time to time they may deem wise, equitable and expedient
for the comfort, health, convenience and prosperity of said town and its
inhabitants; for the prevention or removal of nuisances, preservation of
health and suppression of vice and immorality within the limits of said
town, and shall have power to lay an equal tax on the property, real and
personal, within said limits, to such an amount as may from time to time
be deemed necessary to accomplish the purposes aforesaid; which tax shall
be collected and paid to the president and commissioners by the collector
appointed by them, who shall have power to distrain therefor and sell said

distraint after five days' notice by public advertisement set up in said
town; provided, that the tax shall not exceed twenty cents in the hundred

dollars of the taxable property of said town for any one year; and the said

commissioners shall fix the term of office, amount of bond and compensa-
tion of such collector.

P. L. L., 1888, Art. 15, sec. 196. 1867, ch. 47.

377. They shall have full power and authority annually, to appoint
one or two bailiffs, whose duty it shall be to preserve the peace and good
order of said town, and to perform such other duties as may be assigned
him or them by said commissioners, and for this purpose he is or they are
hereby vested with the same power and authority as any constable now has
under the laws of this State, except such as relate to the service of civil
process for collection of debts, but he or they may serve process for the
collection of fines and forfeitures aforesaid.

P. L. L., 1888, Art. 15, sec. 197. 1867, ch. 47.

378. They shall have full power and authority to straighten and widen
old streets, and to lay out and grade new ones, when in their discretion
the same may be considered necessary; and to provide for the payment of
damages and expenses incurred by widening or opening the streets afore-
said by levying and assessing the same, generally upon the whole assessable
property of said town or upon the property of persons benefited thereby.

P. L. L., 1888, Art. 15, sec. 198. 1867, ch. 47.

379. The corporation shall not issue any device, token, note, certificate
or evidence of debt to be used as currency.