FRANCIS THOMAS, ESQUIRE, GOVERNOR.

1841.

Sec. 6. And be it enacted, That the burgess and com-
missioners aforesaid, or a majority of them, may meet to-
gether from time to time, as often as occasion 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
commissioners should die, resign, remove from said town or
be non compos mentis, or displaced, an election 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 sec-
tion of this act, shall be entitled to vote.

chap. 284.

Burgess and
commission-
ers to meet
once in three
months.

Sec. 7. And be it enacted, That the said 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 com-
missioners 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 in the most public places of said
town, that the same may be generally made known.

May appoint
clerk.

Sec. 8. And be it enacted, That all Fines and forfeitures
under the ordinances of the said corporation, shall be re-
coverable before the burgess aforesaid, as small debts arc
recoverable out of court, or before a justice of the peace;
provided, that no fine or forfeiture imposed under any ordi-
nance of said corporation shall exceed the sum of twenty
dollars.

Fines and
forfeitures re-
coverable be-
fore burgess.

Proviso

Sec. 9. And be it enacted, That the burgess and com-
missioners aforesaid may direct by ordinance, all or any of
the footways in said town to be laid off, and levelled, and
paved, or amended and repaired with any materials which
to them may seem best; and such levelling and paving shall
be made and 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; that the
owner or owners of any house, lot or part of a lot where
such levelling, paving, repairing or amending shall be di-
rected, shall not reside in the said town, (he tenant or per-
son occupying the same, or who shall have the charge and
care thereof, shall cause the same to be done, before the
front of such possession, and the money expended by such
tenant or other person in and about the said work in obedi-
ent to the ordinance and direction of the burgess and com-
missioners aforesaid, shall be allowed by the owner, and de-
ducted out of the rent then due or hereafter to become due;
and if any owner or tenant of any house, or lot, or part of

May direct
by ordinance,
improve-
ments to be
made.