1860.

LAWS OF MARYLAND.

CHAP. 55

casion may require upon the business of the town,
and not less than once in every three months, and
if during the year for which they may be elected,
the burgess, assistant burgess or any of the com-
missioners should die, resign, remove from said
town or be non compos mentis or displaced, an elec-
tion to fill the vacancy, shall be held by giving at
least ten days notice at which all persons qualified
as is specified in the second section of this act
shall be entitled to vote.

Clerk—his
duties, &c.

SEC. 7. And be it enacted, That the burgess and
commissioners or a majority of them shall have
power to appoint a clerk and assign his duties and
allow him such compensation for his services as
they may think proper, and that all ordinances
passed by the said burgess and commissioners shall
by their clerk be entered in a book to be kept by
him for that purpose and shall be open at all times
for the inspection of any person interested, and
copies of all ordinances shall be put up in the most
public places of said town, that the same may be
generally made known.

Fines—how

recovered.

SEC. 8. And be it enacted, That all fines and
forfeitures under the ordinances of said corpora-
tion shall be recoverable before the burgess
aforesaid, as small debts are recoverable out of
court or before a justice of the peace; Provided,
that no fines or forfeitures imposed under any ordi-
nances of said corporation shall exceed the sum of
twenty dollars.

Foot-ways.

SEC. 9. And be it enacted, That the burgess and
comissioners aforesaid may direct by ordinance
all or any of the foot-ways in said town to be laid
off and levelled and paved or amended and re-
paired with any materials which to them may seem
best, and such levelling and paving shall be done
at the expense of the proprietors of the different
lots before which the burgess and commissioners
shall direct such levelling and paving to be done,
and if the owner or owners of any house, lot or
part of a lot where such levelling, paving, re-
pairing or amending shall be directed, shall not
reside in the said town, tenant or person occupy-
ing the same or who shall have the charge and
care thereof shall cause the same to be done be-
fore the front of such possession and the money
expended by such tenant or other person in and