74 CECIL COUNTY. [ART. 8.

4. The said commissioners shall meet at such times, as they
shall deem expedient, and may appoint a clerk to register their
proceedings, and they shall at the first meeting after an election,
choose from their own body a president, who shall preside at all
meetings of the commissioners, vote on all questions before
them, and remain in office until superseded by the appointment
of a new president, after a new election "of commissioners.

5. They may also appoint a bailiff of said town, who shall,
within the limits of said town and common, have all the
powers and perform all the duties of constables of Cecil county,
which bailiff may be allowed such compensation as they may
think proper, and all ordinances passed by said commissioners,
or a majority of them, shall be entered by their clerk in a book
to be kept by him for that purpose, and shall be opened at all
times for the inspection of any person interested, and copies of
all ordinances shall be put up at three of the most public places
of said town, that the same may generally be made known.

6. All public property belonging to said town shall be vested
in said commissioners, who shall use the same for the benefit of
said town, and may impose fines not exceeding ten dollars for
the violation of the by-laws, which fines shall be collected in the
name of said commissioners as other debts.

Passed March 10, 1864.

NORTH-EAST.

Chapter 348 enacts as follows

7. The qualified voters residing in the borough of North-East,
in Cecil county, shall have the privilege of deciding by ballot,
at an election called by the commissioners of said borough, for
the purpose, on some day in April, eighteen hundred and sixty-
four, and on some day in the same month, in each subsequent
year, whether any license to sell spirituous or fermented liquors
of any kind, or description whatsoever, shall be granted or
issued by the clerk of the Circuit Court of Cecil county, to any
person to vend or sell the same within the limits of said borough.