WASHINGTON COUNTY. 4793

costs in case the judgment be affirmed; but no appeal shall stay process
or execution upon judgment, unless a bond be given as above provided.

P. L. L., 1888, Art. 22, sec. 181. 1884, ch. 58.

343. Before any policeman, regular or special, shall act as such, he
shall take and subscribe before the mayor, in a book to be kept for that
purpose, the following oath: "I do swear (or affirm,) that I will, to the
best of my ability, discharge the duties of policeman of Hagerstown, with-
out fear, favor or partiality." The policemen so appointed for the en-
forcement of the ordinances of the town and the preservation of its peace
and good order, shall have all the powers of constables; and any person
resisting a policeman in the discharge of his duty, shall be liable, upon con-
viction, to punishment in the same manner and to the same extent as if he
had resisted a constable; and any policeman so appointed, who shall be
guilty of official misconduct, shall be proceeded against by presentment
and indictment in the circuit court for Washington county, and if found
guilty, shall be fined or imprisoned, or both, in the discretion of the court,

P. L. L., 1888, Art. 22, sec. 182. 1884, ch. 58. 1894, ch. 58, sec. 182.

344. The mayor and council shall have power to provide for laying
out, opening, extending, widening, straightening or closing up, in whole
or in part, any street, highway, square, lane, alley, sewer, sanitary sewer,
drain or water course within the bounds of said town, which, in their opin-
ion, public convenience may require.

Hagerstown v. Hagerstown Ry., 123 Md. 184.

1892, ch. 123, sec. 182A.

345. The mayor and council of Hagerstown shall have, and are vested
with full power and authority to provide by ordinance for the grading,
shelling, gravelling, paving, kerbing, or for the regrading, regravelling,
repaving and rekerbing of any street, lane or alley in Hagerstown, or part
thereof, now condemned, ceded or opened as a public highway, or which
may hereafter be condemned, ceded, opened, widened, straightened or al-
tered according to the laws and ordinances regulating the same; and also
for assessing the costs of any such work, in whole or in part, pro rata
upon the property, binding on such street, lane or alley, or part thereof,
and for collecting such assessments as other city taxes are collected.
Hagerstown v. Startzman, 93 Md. 603.

1892, ch. 123, sec. 182B.

346. The said mayor and council shall also have and are vested with
power and authority to provide by general ordinance for the grading,
gravelling, paving or kerbing, or for the regrading, regravelling, repaving
or rekerbing of any street, lane or alley, or part thereof, in Hagerstown
without the passage of a special ordinance in the particular case, whenever
the owners of a majority of the front feet of property binding on such
street, lane, or alley, or part thereof shall apply for the same, upon terms
and under conditions to be prescribed in said general ordinance, and for