1244 GARRETT COUNTY. [ART. 12.

from their own number, select a presiding officer pro tempore;
and the mayor, with the advice of the common council, shall give

directions to the clerk and bailiff, and superintend such improve-
ments of the town as the mayor and common council may order.

1886, ch. 201.

79. They may appoint a clerk, being one of the common

council or otherwise, and prescribe his duties; he shall keep a
book or record of the proceedings and ordinances of said corpo-
ration, which shall be open at all times for the inspection of any
person interested; and said clerk shall make ont and furnish the

collector once in each year a list of taxes for collection, and he
shall post up in at least three public places in said town, copies of
all ordinances passed by said mayor and common council previous
to their going into effect.

1886, ch. 201. 1888, ch. 7.

80. The mayor and common council may provide by ordi-
nance to preserve the health of the town; to prevent and remove
nuisances; to prevent, restrain and regulate the running at large
of horses, cattle, swine and geese with the limits of said town;
to prohibit and disperse the tumultuous or disorderly meetings of
idle, dissolute or drunken persons; to provide for working and
mending the public streets and alleys of said town; to provide
for the making and repairing of sidewalks and gutters; and
generally to provide for the regulation, good government and im-
provement of said town, and may enforce the observance thereof
under such penalties, fines and forfeitures as they shall deem
proper, not exceeding ten dollars for any one offence; and all

fines, penalties and forfeitures may be recovered before a justice

of the peace by warrant and judgment; and in case of failure or
refusal to pay the same, the party so fined shall be committed for
a period not exceeding ten days, to the jail of Garrett county, in
the same manner that commitments are made for fines imposed
by the circuit courts of this State on conviction of misdemeanor;
provided, that all the expenses of such commitment and imprison-
ment shall be paid by the mayor and common council of Deer
Park; but said mayor and common council, or a majority of
them, shall have power, at all times, to remit or release the fines,