2096 WICOMICO COUNTY. [ART. 23.

every three months; and if, during the year for which they may
be elected, any of the said commissioners should die, resign,
remove from said town, or be otherwise disqualified, the remain-
ing commissioners shall elect a person qualified to fill said
vacancy.

1888, ch 210.

165. The said commissioners, or a majority of them, shall
have power to appoint a clerk, and assign his duties, and allow
him such compensation for his services as they may think proper;
all ordinances passed by said commissioners shall be entered in a
book by said clerk, which shall be kept by him for that purpose,
and shall be open at all times for the inspections of any person
interested, and copies of all ordinances shall be put up in the
most public places of said town.

Ibid.

166. The justice of the peace, resident in said town, shall
have power to enforce this charter, and all ordinances passed by
the commissioners of said town thereunder, and for that purpose
to impose any fine or other punishment thereby provided, and
shall have the same power to enforce the payment of such fines
and the inflicting of such punishment as justices of the peace now

have in criminal cases.

Ibid.

167. The said commissioners, or a majority of them, shall
have full power to make all such by-laws, regulations and ordi-
nances, not inconsistent with the laws and constitution of this
State, as from time to time they may deem wise, equitable and
expedient for the comfort, health, convenience and prosperity of
said town and its inhabitants; for the prevention and removal of
nuisances, preservation of health, and suppression of vice and
immorality within the limits of said town; and shall have power
to lay an equal tax on the assessable property within said limits

to such an amount as may, from time to time, be deemed neces-
sary to accomplish the purposes aforesaid, which tax shall be
collected and paid to the president and commissioners by the col-
lector by them appointed, who shall have the same power to
distrain therefor as the collector of State and county taxes in
Wicomico county, as is now provided by law for Wicomico
county, or as debts are now collected; and the said president and