1148 LAWS OF MARYLAND.

may be required under the provisions of this section, shall
make it satisfactorily appear to the policeman that he is physic-
ally unable to perform said labor, either by reason of perma-
nent disability or of disability existing at the time at which
his services are required, and is not able to pay the commuta-
tion hereafter provided, it shall be the duty of the said police-
man to exempt for the time being such persons from the per-
formance of said labor and commutation for labor, and shall re-
port the name of said person with the facts as ascertained by
him to the Mayor and Council at their next regular meeting
whose duty it shall be to investigate the facts and either ratify
or set aside the action of the said policeman, and it shall be the
duty of the said policeman, if the said disability shall be a
temporary one to again summon the said so excused person as
soon as practicable after the removal of such disability in
order that all persons may perform their full share of labor
on said street, lanes and alleys, and in case such policeman
shall refuse to exempt any person who shall apply for exemp-
tion as herein provided, such person, if he shall feel aggrieved
by such refusal, may appeal to the Mayor and Council and the
failure of such person to prosecute 'his said appeal by the
second regular meeting of the Mayor and Council after the ser-'
vice of said summons shall be deemed a waiver and abandon-
ment of such appeal. It shall be the duty of the secretary to
keep a full and complete record of all persons summoned, and
whether or not they obeyed said summons, or paid the commu-
tation therefor, and if neither, then the reasons therefor, all of
which record shall be subject to inspection by any taxpayer,
and said record shall show the date of the service of the sum-
mons and the date of the performance of the labor or the
payment of the commutation, and the year for such labor shall
be from May 1st to May 1st.

48. Every person liable as aforesaid to labor on said streets,
lanes and alleys, who shall fail to obey the summons of the
policeman, or furnish a substitute, shall upon demand made
by said policeman, pay to said policeman the sum of one dol-
lar for each and every day (not exceeding two days) that he
shall fail to perform said labor; and the said policeman shall
collect and account, under oath to the Mayor and Council, for
all sums of money so collected and exemptions granted, and
shall apply the said money, under the direction of the said
Mayor and Council to hiring labor to work on the streets, lanes
and alleys aforesaid, and at the expiration of his term shall pay
over to the Mayor and Council any surplus that may remain in
his hands, and the said policeman shall make the said report,
under oath, at each regular monthly meeting of the Mayor and