PHILLIPS LEE GOLDSBOROUGH, GOVERNOR. 1195

violating the provisions of this Section shall be subject to in-
dictment by the Grand Jury for Allegany County and upon
conviction in the Circuit Court for Allegany County shall be
fined not more than twenty-five dollars or imprisoned for not
more than thirty days, or both, in, the discretion of the Court,
and upon such conviction the Court may suppress the license

of the person so convicted.

SECTION 184A 15. The Health Officer shall have such power
and perform such duties as may be delegated to him by the
Mayor and Council for the care of the health of the people of
the town and for the removal of nuisances and to prevent the
spread of dangerous, contagious or infectious diseases. He shall
have the power to make and enforce all necessary quarantine
regulations, and to keep the streets, alleys and sidewalks of
the town and all premises therein in a sanitary condition. He
shall have the power to enter all houses and other places, public
or private, at all reasonable times in the discharge of his duties,

or for the purpose of improving and maintaining the proper
sanitation of the town and the prevention and suppression of

diseases, and he shall have the pqwer to abate, or cause to be
abated, all nuisances which may affect or endanger the comfort
or health of the people of the town, and to do all acts and make
all regulations that may be necessary or expedient for the pro-
motion of health or the suppression of diseases, and to perform
such other duties as the Mayor and Council may prescribe. He
shall receive such salary as the Mayor and Council may deter-
mine, and shall be appointed to office or removed from office as
and when the Mayor and Council shall deem fit and proper.
He shall be a physician in good standing in his profession.

SECTION 184A 16. The Clerk, before entering upon his duties,
shall take the oath herein prescribed for members of the Coun-
cil and shall execute such a bond as may be prescribed and de-
termined by the Mayor and Council. He shall countersign all
orders for the payment of money, and in the absence of the
Mayor or his inability to serve, shall become Mayor pro tem,
the Council at such times appointing one of their members to
fill the place of Clerk; the Clerk shall keep a full and accurate
set of accounts of the town, and shall keep its records and
papers; he shall keep a journal of the proceedings of the Coun-
cil, which shall be open at all times for the inspection of any
citizen of the town, and in a well-bound book he shall enter a
copy of the oath taken and therein subscribed by every officer
of the town, who is required to take oath, with the witness there-