WILLIAM GRASON, ESQUIRE, GOVERNOR.

1840.

missioners, shall be held, at which time all persons qualified
in the manner specified in the second section of this act,
shall be entitled to vote.

CHAP. 21.

SEC. 7. And be it enacted, That the said 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 commissioners, or a majority of them,
shall by their clerk, be entered in a book to be kept by
him for that purpose, which 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.

To appoint a
clerk

His compensa-
tion and duties.

Sec. 8. And be it enacted, That the said commissioners
or a majority of them, shall have full power and authority
to make all such by-laws, regulations and ordinances, not
inconsistent with the laws and constitution of this state, as
from time to time they may deem wise, equitable and expe-
dient, for the comfort, health, convenience and prosperity
of the said town and its inhabitants, and for the prevention
or removal of nuisances, preservation of health, and sup-
pression of vice and immorality within the limits of said
town; and shall have power to impose such fines and
forfeitures, as may be seemed expedient to enforce the
observance of the same; and that all fines and forfeitures
shall be recoverable before the president aforesaid, as small
debts are recoverable out of court, or before any justice of
the peace.

Powers of com-
missioners.

Recovery of
fines, &c.

SEC. 9. And be it enacted, That the said commissioners
shall be empowered, and are hereby required within three
months after the first election of commissioners under this
act, to cause a survey to be made for the purpose of deter-
mining the limits of the town of Frostburg; and they shall
be, and are hereby empowered to include within such limits,
all lots, houses, buildings or other improvements, which
from the contiguity of their situation to the limits determin-
ed by the commissioners appointed under an act of the Gene-
ral Assembly of the state of Maryland, passed December ses-
sion, eighteen hundred and thirty-four, to lay out, mark and
fix the boundaries to the lots of Frostburg, may be fairly
and equitably adjudged to belong to and he in the said town.

Survey, &c. to
be made.

SEC. 10. And be it enacted, That the said commissioners
shall have full power and authority to lay an equal tax upon
all real property, within the limits of the town of Frost-
burg, determined as prescribed by section nine, to such
amount as may from tune to time be deemed necessary to

To lay a tax.