LAWS OF MARYLAND.

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6. And be it enacted, That the Burgess and Commissioners afore-
said or a majority of them, may meet together 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 or displaced, an election to fill the vacancy shall be held, at
which all persons qualified as is specified in the second section of this
act, shall be entitled to vote.

Dec Ses. 1823

Meetings—
Vacancies.

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
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 inspec-
tion 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 gen-
erally made known.

Clerk, his
duties, &c.

8. And be it enacted, That all fines and forfeitures under the ordi-
nances of the said corporation, shall be recoverable before the Bur-
gess aforesaid, as small debts are recoverable out of court, or before
a justice of the peace.

Fines & for-
feitures.

9. And be it enacted, That the Burgess and Commissioners afore-
said, may direct by ordinance all or any of the footways in the 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
aforesaid shall direct such levelling and paving to be done.
10. And be it enacted, That if the owner or owners of any house,
lot or part of a lot, where such levelling, paving, repairing or amend-
ing shall be directed, shall not reside in the said town, the tenant or
person occupying the same, or who shall have the charge and care
thereof shall cause the same to be done before the front of such pos-
session, and the money expended by such tenant or other person in
and about the said work in obedience to the ordinance and direction
of the Burgess and Commissioners aforesaid, shall be allowed by the
owner, and deducted out of the rent then due or thereafter to become
due; & if any owner or tenant of any house, or lot or part of a lot, or the
person having die care of the same, shall refuse or neglect to level,
pave, amend or repair, the footway in front of the same according to
the ordinance and direction of the Burgess and Commissioners afore-
said, it shall and may be lawful for the Burgess and Commissioners
aforesaid, to contract and agree with some person or persons on rea-
sonable terms, to level, pave, amend or repair such footways, and to
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
distress on such property with cost.

Pavements,
&c.

Non-resi-
dents.

11. And be it enacted, That the said Burgess and Commissioners
shall have power to make all such bye-laws, regulations and ordinan-
ces as from time to time they may deem wise, equitable and expedi-
ent for the comfort, health, convenience, and prosperity of the said
.town and its inhabitants, for the prevention or removal of nuisances,
preservation of health and suppression of vice and immorality within
the limits of the said town, and shall have power to lay an equal tax

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