2094 WICOMICO COUNTY. [ART. 23.

day previous to the day appointed by the bailiff for working on
said street, shall fail to appear or provide some one in his stead,
or pay the sum of one dollar on or before the day of his appear-
ance, unless for good cause excused by bailiff, the said person
shall be guilty of a misdemeanor, and upon conviction thereof
before the police justice, shall be fined not less than two dollars,
and stand committed to jail for two days, or until the fine and

costs are paid.

1888, ch. 186.

157. The said mayor and council shall have the power to
employ all labor, or authorize the bailiff to do so, that may be
necessary, and to make all contracts for public improvements and
to fix the price to be paid for the same.

Ibid.

158. The mayor and council shall publish, annually, a full and
complete statement of their receipts and disbursements in some
newspaper published in said town, at least once a week before the
annual levy. All the provisions of chapter eighty-two of the
acts of the general assembly of Maryland, passed at January
session of eighteen hundred and seventy-six, entitled "an act to
preserve and define the harbor at Salisbury, and the channel of
the Wicomico river, in Wicomico county," are hereby continued
in force; provided, that the wharf, as it now stands, erected by
William B. Tilghman and Eandolph Humphreys, in the year
eighteen hundred and eighty-seven, on the south side of their
wharf in Salisbury, and fronting on the south branch of the
Wicomico river, shall be the harbor line at said point.

SHARPTOWN.

1888, ch. 210.

159. The inhabitants of the town of Sharptown, in Wicomico
county, are constituted a body corporate by the name of the
"Commissioners of Sharptown," and by that name may have
perpetual succession, sue and be sued, and have and use a com-
mon seal; may purchase and hold real, personal and mixed
property, or dispose of same for the benefit of the town.

Ibid.

160. The limits of said town shall begin at low water-mark,
on the south side of the Nanticoke river, and running south