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464. Elections, how to be held. 465. Vacancy in burgess or commis- sioners, how filled. 466. Oath of burgess and commis- sioners. 467. Meetings of. 468. Clerk, appointment of. 469. Clerk to enter ordinances in a public book; ordinances, how posted. 470. What by-laws and ordinances commissioners authorized to pass. 471. Assessment; tax to be collected by burgess; power of. 472. Power of commissioners over streets, lanes and alleys in town. 473. Footways, grading, paving and repairing of, cost, by whom to be paid. 474. Tenant to pay cost of fixing foot- way when owner is a non-resi-

dent; cost to be deducted from rent due by. 475. Persons refusing to have foot- ways fixed, burgess and com- missioners to have same done; cost of, how recovered. 476. Burgess to see that ordinances are carried out; jurisdiction of. 477. To act as treasurer of corpora- tion, bond and duties of. 478. Compensation of, as treasurer and burgess. 479. Annual report by. 480. Persons failing to pay fines im- posed for violation of ordi- nances, to be committed to jail, no fine to exceed $20; right of appeal allowed. 481. Fines and forfeitures, how recov- ered; commitments, by whom to be signed.

ALMSHOUSE.

1886, ch. 3.

1. On the second Monday of February of every second year,
accounting from the year eighteen hundred and eighty-six, the

county commissionerfl of Frederick county shall appoint five dis-
creet and competent persons, residents of said county, two of

whom shall be of an opposite political party from that of a
majority of said county commissioners, to be commissioners of
charities and corrections, who shall hold office for the space of two
years from the second Monday of February of their appointment,

and until their successors are appointed and qualified; and should
any person appointed by the county commissioners to be commis-
sioners of charities and corrections fail or neglect to qualify for
thirty days, the county commissioners shall fill the vacancy.

1884, ch. 243.

2. The commissioners shall be and are declared a body corpo-
rate by the name and title of the " Commissioners of Charities and