ART. 15.] COUNTY COMMISSIONERS. 145$

P. L. L., (1860,) art. 14, sec. 83.

81. They shall pay to the clerk whom they shall appoint such
sum as they shall think proper for his services.

Ibid. sec. 84.

82. The president and clerk of said commissioners may ad-
minister oaths relating to the business matters of said board in
all cases required by the laws of this State, or the rules and
regulations of said commissioners.

1880, ch. 487.

83. The county commissioners shall have full power and
authority to make reasonable rules and regulations for the receipt
and delivery of freight, at or upon the public wharves in Kent
county, and to enforce the observance of said rules and regula-
tions, by imposing upon the party violating the same, any reason-
able fine not exceeding two dollars for any one violation which
fines shall be collected from all residents of the county as small
debts are now collected, and from non-residents of the county by
attachment, as set forth in the next section.

Ibid.

84. They are authorized to collect reasonable wharfage for the
use of said public wharves, from all vessels using the same, and the
vessel or cargo shall be liable therefor by process of attachment—
the owner, master or other person in charge of said vessel or cargo,
to be made defendant in such attachment—which attachment shall
be according to the established practice in this State in other
cases, except that the affidavit required in such attachments may
be made by the wharf master in charge of said county wharves;
and'execution may issue upon any judgment of condemnation in
such cases, thirty days after said judgment is rendered.

Ibid.

85. The rules and regulations authorized by the preceding
section shall be printed and furnished by the county commission-
ers for the information of the public, to the several wharf masters,
who shall be bound, upon request, to exhibit a copy thereof to