106 ANNE ARUNDEL COUNTY. [ART. 2.

1870, ch. 202.

39. The mayor may take the acknowledgment of any deed or
instrument of writing required to be acknowledged, and receive
therefor the sum of fifty cents; all by-laws and ordinances of the
said corporation shall be signed by the mayor; during the first
ten days in the month of January of each and every year he
shall cause to be prepared and printed for the information of the
citizens, a statement of the finances of the said corporation; he
may call upon any officer of the city, entrusted with the receipt
and expenditure of public money, for a statement of his accounts
as often as he may deem it necessary; and he shall see that the
ordinances are duly and faithfully executed.

P. L L., (1860,) art. 2, sec. 49.

40. The mayor, counsellor and aldermen may repair any
private wharves belonging to persons who shall refuse, after two
months' notice, to repair the same, and they may receive the
wharfage of such wharves until such repairs are paid for, or
until the owners thereof shall pay the same.

Ibid. sec. 50.

41. They may appoint, from time to time, at such periods as
they may deem most proper and convenient, certain persons as
wardens of the port of the city of Annapolis, not less than three
nor more than five in number, who shall be removable at their
pleasure.

Ibid. sec. 51.

42. The persons so appointed shall each take the following
Oath: "I, A. B., do swear that I will discharge the trust of
warden of the port of the city of Annapolis to the best of my
ability, without favor, affection or partiality. "

Ibid. sec. 52.

43. The wardens, or a majority of them, shall have power to
determine upon and regulate all matters relating to the erection
or building of wharves in the said port, so far as respects the
distance said wharves may be extended into the water, and the
materials of which they shall be constructed, and the manner and