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LAWS OF MARYLAND.

the owner or owners and deducted out of the rent then
due or thereafter to become due, and if any owner or
tenant of any house or lot or part of a lot or the person
having the care of the same, shall refuse or neglect to
level, pave, curb, mend or repair the footway in front of
the same according to the ordinance and direction of
the burgess and commissioners aforesaid, it shall and
may be lawful for the burgess and commissioners afore-
said to contract and agree with some person or persons,
on reasonable terms to level, pave, curb, mend or repair
such footway and charge the expense thereof to the
owner or owners of the property in front of which such
work may be done, and shall recover the same by dis-
tress on such property with costs.

Other officers.

SEC. 10. And be it enacted, That all other officers
not herein named, which may be deemed necessary to
execute the powers of the said corporation and the laws
thereof shall be appointed in such manner as shall by
ordinance be directed.

Power of bur-
gess.

SEC. 11. And be it enacted, That the burgess of the
said corporation shall in virtue of his office, have and
exercise within the limits of the said corporation all the
jurisdiction and powers of a justice of the peace except
as to civil cases and the acknowledgment of deeds, and
he shall see that all the ordinances and by-laws are duly
and faithfully executed, and the burgess may cull upon
any officer of the town entrusted with the receipt and
expenditure of public money for a statement of his ac-
counts as often as he or the commissioners may conceive
it necessary, and he shall report annually to the com-
missioners, the general state of the town with an ac-
curate account of the money received and expended,
to be published in the most public places in the town for
the information of the citizens.

Oath of offi-
cers.

SEC. 12. And be it enacted, That the burgess and
every commissioner of said corporation, and all other
officers who shall by ordinance be directed so to do, be-
fore he, or any of them shall enter upon the execution
of their respective offices, shall severally take and sub-
scribe the following oath or affirmation: I do solemnly
swear, (or affirm, as the case may be,) that I will faith-
fully execute the office of to the best
of my judgment and ability, without favor, affection or
partiality.

Vacancy, how
filled.

SEC. 13. And be it enacted, That in case of the
death, refusal to act, disqualification, resignation or re-
moval of the burgess, or any commissioner, out of the