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proved by the Mayor and Council which approval shall be endorsed on
the bond and signed by the Mayor and at least two of the Councilmen.
This bond shall be recorded among the general records of the town by the
town clerk, and, also in the office of the Clerk of the Circuit Court for
Worcester County, where it shall be retained. It shall be recorded therein
as other official bonds and a copy thereof duly certified by said Clerk shall
be admissible as evidence in any of the courts of this State, as well as the
original, but the failure to record the bond or to endorse said approval
thereon shall not affect its validity or the liability of those who execute
the same. The following conditions shall in substance be set forth therein:
"Now the condition of this obligation is such that if the above bound
(insert Clerk's name), who has lately been appointed town clerk of Poco-
moke City shall well, truly and faithfully perform all the duties and
functions belonging or appertaining to said office under the Charter and
Ordinances of said town and under the orders of the Mayor and Council
thereof, and in particular shall well, truly and faithfully collect all
moneys that it may be his duty to collect or that he may be authorized or
directed by said Mayor and Council to collect; and if he shall well, truly
and faithfully account for and pay over to the said Mayor and Council
or on their order to the town treasurer of Pocomoke City all moneys col-
lected by him at such time as the law may appoint or the Mayor and
Council may direct then and in such case this obligation to be void, but
otherwise to remain in full force and virtue in law." The said town clerk
shall make monthly settlements with the town treasurer for all town taxes,
fines and other moneys collected by him during the previous month and
such settlement shall be entered in full in the minutes of the Council.

1906, ch. 549. 1920 Code, sec. 267. 1927, ch. 446, sec. 267.

211. The Mayor and Council may, when they deem such officers necessary,
appoint one or more night watchmen, and may by ordinance or by unani-
mous vote of the Council approved by the Mayor and entered in the minute
book of said town fix their term of office, their salary and their duties. All
night watchmen, when so appointed, before entering upon the discharge
of their duties shall take and subscribe before the Mayor the same oath
herein required to be taken and subscribed by policemen. And all night
watchmen shall have all the police powers of constables, and any person
resisting them, or any of them, in the discharge of their duties shall be
liable, upon conviction, to the same penalties as are imposed for resisting
a constable. And they shall have power to serve, deliver or post all orders
or notices which under any law or ordinance are required to be served,
delivered or posted and to make returns thereon to the Mayor, the Coun-
cil or the Mayor and Council, and the return of any night watchman
thereto shall have the same force and effect as is hereinbefore given to the
return of the policemen to any such notice. They shall have the same
power for making arrests and for serving the warrants or writs for crim-
mal offenses, issued bv any Justice of the Peace, for any offense against
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