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LAWS OF MARYLAND.

said owner or owners, or their agents, fail or refuse to

pay the cost of such work within thirty day after the

Failure to pay

completion of the same, the said burgess and commis-

cost of work.

sioners are hereby authorized to collect the same by

law. The burgess and commissioners shall have power

to pass any and all such ordinances necessary to carry

into effect any of the provisions of this section.

SEC. 113. The burgess shall be treasurer of the cor-

Treasurer to

poration, and shall give an annual bond, in the pen-

give annual
bond.

alty of two thousand five hundred dollars, with at

least two sureties, who, at the time of going on said

bond, shall make affidavit that they are each worth

the amount of the penalty thereof, free of all incum-

brances, conditioned for the faithful performance of

his duties as treasurer; it shall be his duty to receive

from the collector of said town all taxes collected by

him, and all other moneys accruing, including fines,

&c., and the same shall be paid out by him under

the ordinances of said corporation; and he shall keep

Keep account

a regular account of such receipts and expenditures,

of receipts, &c.

and shall make quarterly reports thereof to said com-

missioners, or as often as they may require; and he

shall, at the end of each year, furnish said corpora-

tion with a full and detailed statement, showing the

financial condition of said town to that date, which

statement shall be published by handbills, to be posted

in not less than ten of the most public places in said

town, and for a violation of any of said duties,

his bond shall be put in suit; and any further duties

to be imposed upon said burgess shall be defined by

ordinances of said corporation, and said bond shall be

recorded in the office of the clerk of the circuit court

for Garrett county.

SEC. 118. The burgess and three commissioners

shall constitute a quorum for the transaction of busi-

Quorum.

ness, and if the burgess be absent, four commissioners

shall constitute such quorum.

SEC. 119. The burgess and commissioners shall, at

their regular meetings in May of each year, appoint a

collector of taxes and a town clerk to serve for one

Appoint collec-

year from the date of their appointment and qualifi-

tor of taxes and

cation, and until their successors are elected and quali-

elerk.

fied, and said collector of taxes shall act as town con-

stable, unless otherwise provided by section one hun-

dred and twenty-eight; provided that the said burgess

and commissioners shall have power to remove either