ART. 22.] LEITERSBURG. 2005

P. L. L , (1860,) art 21, sec. 218.

305. The clerk shall enter all ordinances passed by the bur-
gess and commissioners in a book to be kept by him for that
purpose, which shall be open at all times to the inspection of any
person interested; and copies of all ordinances shall be set up in
the most public places in the town.

Ibid sec. 219.

306. The burgess and commissioners shall have power to
make all such by-laws and ordinances as they may deem expe-
dient for the comfort, health, convenience and prosperity of the
town and its inhabitants, the prevention or removal of nuisances,
preservation of health, and suppression of vice and immorality in
said town.

Ibid sec! 220.

307. They may lay an equal tax on the property in the town,
to such amount as they may from time to time deem necessary
for the purposes of the corporation.

Ibid sec. 221.

308. They may appoint a collector to collect said tax, and
may fix his term of oflice, responsibility and compensation; and
the said collector shall have the same power to distrain for said
tax as the collector of county taxes has for county taxes, and shall
pay the same to the said burgess and commissioners.

Ibid. sec. 222.

309. The burgess shall be treasurer of the corporation and
shall give bond thereto, with security, to be approved by
commissioners, in such penalty as they shall prescribe, cond-
tioned for the faithful performance of his duty as treasurer; and
he shall receive and pay away all moneys agreeably to the ordi-
nances of the corporation.

Ibid. sec. 223.

310. The burgess and commissioners may direct by ordinance
all or any of the footways in said town to be paved or repaired,
with any materials they may think proper, at the expense of the
proprietors of the different lots in front of which the same shall
be done.