4404 ARTICLE 20.

next year; every able-bodied male person between the ages of twenty-one
and sixty years who has resided in said city for four months shall be
bound to work on said streets, lanes, alleys and thoroughfares for one day
in each and every year as the year is herein defined, and if any person
who is liable to render such service fails to attend as directed on notice
from the Chief of Police, or who shall appear and fail or refuse to work
and render proper service as by the person or persons supervising the
work he is required and instructed to do, he shall be guilty of a misde-
meanor, and on conviction thereof before a justice of the peace of Somer-
set County or in the Circuit Court for Somerset County, he shall be fined
one dollar, and shall be adjudged to pay fine and costs and stand com-
mitted until fine and costs are paid; at or about the first day of January
in each year, beginning with the year 1911, the clerk of the Council, with
the Mayor and Council, the Chief of Police and other police, shall make
out a list of all persons who on the first day of the next June will be liable
to. render service, and as soon as may reasonably be convenient this list
shall be delivered to the Chief of Police, and he shall call on each person
named therein to pay the sum of one dollar; each person who pays same
shall receive a receipt exempting him from service for the current year,
beginning on the first day of June following. Within five days before
the first day of June the Chief of Police shall make a list of the persons
who have not paid the exemption fee, and from this list the Chief of Police
shall, from time to time, call out persons for service, and he shall allow
no person to escape from the service; the Chief of Police shall make
monthly returns to the clerk of the Council and the money collected, and
shall turn over the same to the city. The Mayor and Council of Crisfield
shall have full power and authority to pass ordinances for executing, car-
rying out and enforcing the provisions hereof and for providing syste-
matic arrangements in respect thereto.

1910, ch. 529, sec. 92 (p. 1102).

88. The Mayor and Council of Crisfield shall have power to provide
by ordinance for the constructing, opening, enlarging or straightening of
any sewer or drain, and for regulation of the same; for paving and keep-
ing in repair all necessary sewers and drains or gutters; to provide by
ordinances for the purchase and condemnation of private or public prop-
erty as is now provided in this Act for the condemnation and opening of
streets in said city; for the purpose of paving, building and maintaining
any sewers or drain in said city; and to regulate the charge for entering
and maintaining any such sewer or drains; to inspect and regulate house
drainage and sewerage connections, and to prescribe the kind of material
and the quality thereof of which same are to be constructed, or to construct
the same at public expense.

1910, ch. 529, sec. 93 (p. 1102).

89. The Mayor and Council may contract with any corporation, firm
or person for the lighting of the city or part thereof, either with electricity
or gas. or by such means as they deem proper; and for water for use at