1102 LAWS OF MARYLAND.

person who pays same shall receive a receipt exempting him
from service for the current year, beginning on the first day
of June following. Within five days before the first day of
June the Chief of Police shall make a list of the persons who
have not paid the exemption fee, and from this list the Chief
of Police shall, from time to time, call out persons for service,
and he shall allow no person to escape from the service; the
Chief of Police shall make monthly returns to the clerk of the
Council and the money collected, and shall turn over the same
to the city. The Mayor and Council of Crisfield shall have full
power and authority to pass ordinances for executing, carrying
out and enforcing the provisions hereof and for providing sys-
tematic arrangements in respect thereto.

92. The Mayor and Council of Crisfield shall have power
to provide by ordinance for the constructing, opening, enlarg-
ing or straightening of any sewer or drain, and for regulation
of the same; for paving and keeping in repair all necessary
sewers and drains or gutters; to provide by ordinances for the
purchase and condemnation of private or public property as is
now provided in this Act for the condemnation and opening of
streets in said city; for the purpose of paving, building and
maintaining any sewers or drain in said city; and to regulate
the charge for entering and maintaining any such sewer or
drains; to inspect and regulate house drainage and sewerage
connections, and to prescribe the kind of material and the qual-
ity thereof of which same are to be constructed, or to construct
the same at public expense.

93. The Mayor and Council may contract with any corpora-
tion, firm or person for the lighting of the city or part thereof,
either with electricity or gas, or by such means as they deem
proper; and for water for use at fires or other city purposes; or
may supply such light or water themselves; provided, no con-
tract so entered into with a private corporation or company
shall be for a longer period than ten years, or in default of any
such contract they may provide same at the expense and for
the use of the city.

94. The Mayor and Council of Crisfield are hereby author-
ized and empowered to borrow on the faith and credit of the
city and for the use of the city a sum or sums of money in all
not exceeding in the aggregate five thousand dollars, and may
issue emergency notes or other evidences of indebtedness, under
authority of this section on such time and at such rate of inter-
est as may be determined by the Mayor and Council, and the
interest thereon must be paid by the Mayor and Council from
the general taxes levied for the use of the city under the power
in this Act conferred; the levying or collecting of any special