1002 DORCHESTER COUNTY. [ART. 10.

1867, ch. 63.

96. The limits of said town shall be defined as follows:
beginning at a bridge at the head of Church Creek river on Loom
Town road; thence running and binding the aforesaid river to
Capt. Richard Linthicum's wharf; thence from said wharf,
running by a straight line to the mouth of William T. Richard-
son's lane, on the road leading from Church Creek to Cambridge ;
thence from the mouth of said lane by a straight line to a barn
belonging to Capt. Levin S. Fooks, on the road leading from
Church Creek to the Black Water bridge, and thence from the
said barn by a straight line to the place of beginning.

Ibid.

97. The commissioners shall have full power to make all such
by-laws, regulations and ordinances, not inconsistent with the
laws and constitution of this State, as from time to time they may
deem wise, equitable and expedient for the comfort, health,
convenience and prosperity of the town and its inhabitants; for
the prevention or removal of nuisances, preservation of health,
and suppression of vice and immorality within the limits of the
town; and they shall have power to lay an equal tax on the
property within said limits, to such an amount as may from time
to time be deemed necessary to accomplish the purposes aforesaid,
which tax shall be collected and paid to the president and com-
missioners, by the collector appointed by them, who shall have
the same power to distrain therefor as the collector of the public
county assessment has to distrain for the same; provided, said tax
shall not exceed twenty-five cents on the one hundred dollars of
the taxable property of said town, for any one year; and the
president and commissioners shall fix the term of office, amount
of bond and compensation of such collector.

Ibid.

98. They shall have full power and authority, annually, to
appoint a bailiff, whose duty it shall be to preserve the peace and
good Order of the town, and to perform such other duties as may
be assigned him by them; and for this purpose he is vested with
the same power and authority as constables now have under the
laws of this State.