DORCHESTER COUNTY. 781

with Maryland avenue in East Cambridge; thence with said
line to the stone on the county road to East Cambridge; thence
with the extreme eastern boundary line to the Choptank river,
and out into the said river in the same direction to the middle
thereof; thence down the middle of said river to intersect the
line of the First Ward; thence with said line to the mouth of
Cambridge creek; thence up said creek with the middle thereof
to the place of beginning.

46. Every male citizen of the United States of the age of
twenty-one years and upwards who has been a resident of
Cambridge for one year, and of the ward in which he may
offer to vote for thirty days next preceding the election, shall
be entitled to vote in the ward in which he resides at all elec-
tions hereafter to be held in said town, but a person who shall
have acquired a residence in one ward of said town entitling
him to vote at any such election shall be entitled to vote in the
ward from which he removed until he shall have acquired a
residence in the ward to which he has removed.

73. The year for ordering and repairing the streets, lanes,
alleys and thoroughfares of said town shall be reckoned from
the first day of May, inclusive, in one year, to the first day of
May, inclusive, in the next year. Every able-bodied male per-
son between the age of twenty-one and fifty years who has
resided in said town for four months shall be bound to work
on said streets, lanes, alleys and thoroughfares for one day in
every year, as the year is herein defined. And if any person
who is liable to render service fails to attend, on notice from
the chief bailiff, or sub-bailiff, or who appears and fails or
refuses to work and render service as by the person or per-
sons supervising the work he is required and instructed, shall
be guilty of a misdemeanor, and on conviction thereof, before
a justice of the peace, or in the Circuit Court for Dorchester
County, such person shall be fined one dollar and shall be
adjudged to pay the costs and to stand committed to jail until
fine and costs are paid, and he shall be bound to render proper
service. Any person who pays to the chief bailiff the sum of
one dollar in lieu of rendering personal service on the streets,
lanes and thoroughfares of Cambridge shall receive a receipt
therefor from said chief bailiff exempting him from work and
service on the street for the term of one year, as the year is
hereinbefore defined, the Commissioners of Cambridge shall
have full power and authority to pass one or more ordinances
for executing, carrying out and enforcing the provisions there-
of and providing systematic arrangements in respect thereto.