48 TALBOT COUNTY. [ART. 20.

3. The said commissioners or a majority of them, shall have
power to meet and adjourn from time to time as they shall think
proper, and shall at their first meeting after an election for a
board of commissioners, 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all questions before them, and remain in office until superseded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, they may also choose from their own body
annually, a treasurer, and require him to give bond in such
penalty as they may prescribe; they may also appoint from
their own number, (or other persons, ) three judges of election
and a clerk, and administer to them the necessary oaths.

4. They may open, close, grade and level streets and alleys,
and remove all nuisances and obstructions from the same, and
prevent encroachments thereon by building or otherwise; and
if any person shall neglect or refuse to remove such obstructions
or nuisances after being notified by said commissioner so to do,
the said commissioners shall have authority to sell the same at
public auction after ten days public notice, to the highest bidder
for cash or on credit, and the proceeds arising from such sales
shall be paid over to the treasurer for the benefit of the town,
and nothing herein contained shall be construed to invalidate in
any manner any official acts of the said board of commissioners
hitherto done, or performed under the authority of the sections
hereby altered or amended.

Passed March 24, 1865. Sec ch. 128, under Art. VI., Caroline County.