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LAWS OF MARYLAND.

Meetings.

356. The Burgess and Commissioners may meet as often as
occasion may require upon the business of the corporation, at
which meetings the Burgess shall preside, and, if during the
year for which they may be elected, any of the five commis-
sioners should die, resign, remove from said town, or become
non compos mentis, an election shall be called by said Burgess
to fill the vacancy, at which election all persons qualified under
section 353 of this Article shall be entitled to vote; in the
event of the death, resignation, removal or disqualification of
the Burgess, the board of commissioners shall select one of
their own body to serve as Burgess, until the next annual elec-
tion, and the commissioners, at their first meeting after their
election and qualification, shall select one of their own number
as Burgess pro tempore, to act as Burgess in the case of the
temporary absence or indisposition of the Burgess, and who,
while so acting, shall have and exercise all the powers of the
Burgess conferred by this article.

Appointment
or register.

357. The said commissioners shall have power to appoint a
register, and assign his duties, and allow him such compensa-
tion as they shall deem proper, and all ordinances passed by
said commissioners, and signed by the Burgess, shall be entered
by the register in a book to be kept by him for that purpose,
which shall be open at all times for public inspection, and ac-
cessible to the Burgess, and copies of all ordinances signed by
the Burgess and attested by the register, shall be put up in the
most public places, or printed in any newspaper published in
said town, in order that the same may be generally made known.
The register shall receive and disburse on the order of the Bur-
gess, all moneys collected under any of the ordinances of the
corporation, and shall give bond to the Burgess and commis-
sioners of Middletown, with such security as they shall require;
he shall report annually to the commissioners, and as often as
required by them, the financial condition of the town, with an
account of all money received and expended, with the proper
vouchers, which report shall be published in a newspaper in
said town, as the commissioners shall direct. He shall collect
all taxes levied by the Burgess and commissioners, and shall
have the same power to distrain and sell therefor as collectors
of county taxes.

Powers of
burgess.

358. The Burgess, in virtue of his office, shall have and
exercise all the powers of a justice of t'le peace, and be enti-
tled to the same fee.