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missioners aforesaid, or a majority, of them, may meet togeth-
er 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 elec-
ted, the Burgess, Assistant Burgess, or any of the Commis-
sioners 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 section of this
act, shall be entitled to vote.

Section 7. And be it enacted, That the Burgess and Com-
missioners, or a majority of them, shall have power to ap-
point a Clerk and assign his duties, and allow him such com-
pensation 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 in-
spection 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.

Section 8. And be it enacted, That all fines and forfeitures
under the ordinances of said corporation 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 ordinances of said
corporation, shall exceed the sum of twenty dollars.

Section 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
done at the expense of the proprietors of the different lots be-
fore 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,
repairing or amending 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 possession, 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 hereafter
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 and amend or repair the
footway in front of the same according to the ordinance and