1820.

LAWS OF MARYLAND.

CHAP. 159.

to vote as aforesaid, of one or more judicious and discreet per-
sons as aforesaid, to supply every such vacancy, during the re-
mainder of the term, and the time of holding said, intervening
election shall be previously notified for the space of ten days pre-
ceding the election.

Oath to be taken.

14. And be it enacted, That every commissioner to be appoint-
ed in pursuance of this act, before he shall proceed to execute his
office, shall take an oath or affirmation before some justice of the
peace, that he will diligently and faithfully, according to the best
of his judgment, perform the duties of a commissioner of the said
town, according to the directions of this act, without favour, par-
tiality or prejudice, and a certificate of such qualification shall be
made and returned by such justice of the peace, to the said com-
missioners, to be filed and recorded among their proceedings.

Times of meeting.

15. And be it enacted, That the said commissioners, or a major
part of them, shall meet together at the court-house in the said
town, or at such other public place within the limits thereof as
shall be previously notified, on the third Monday of September
eighteen hundred and twenty one. and statedly on the third Mon-
day in every third month thereafter, and as much oftener, by ad-
journment, as they shall judge to be necessary, and when so as-
sembled the said commissioners, or the major part of them, shall
proceed to execute the several powers and authority vested in
them by this act, from time to time, as occasion shall require.

Powers of com-
missioners.

16. And be it enacted, That the said commissioners shall be
and they are hereby authorised, empowered and required, to meet
as aforesaid, and from time to time to recommend such plans
and regulations as they shall judge, beneficial to the town, or the
inhabitants thereof; to cause to be removed all nuisances and ob-
structions that may interrupt the passage, of the said inhabitants,
or others, in the streets of the said town; to cause, the principal
or other streets to be repaired, improved or paved, whenever a
majority of the taxable inhabitants and proprietors thereof shall
reasonably require the same to be done, and sufficient sums of
money can be raised by subscription, or otherwise, for such pur-
pose; to cause the inhabitants, and others entitled to vote for
commissioners according to this act, to be and continue, register-
ed, and to make such alterations in the register thereof, from
time to time, as the increasing number of inhabitants, or other
changing circumstances, shall render necessary; to appoint and
qualify a clerk, whose duty it shall be to keep fair and faithful
minutes of their proceedings in proper and well bound books to
be provided by them for that purpose, and to he subject to the in-
spection and examination of all persons who may be concerned;
to cause the persons entitled to vote as aforesaid to bo summoned
by public advertisement, to meet at some certain time and place
within the limits of the said town, whenever their sentiments may
be requisite upon any extraordinary occasion; to cause just and
fair assessment and valuation of all the property, real and per-
sonal, within the, limits of the said town, to be made and returned,
from time, to time, by some skilful and discreet, person, to bo
appointed and qualified by them for such occasion, and whenever
it shall be deemed necessary for any purpose advantageous to the.
town by a majority of the voters to be summoned and assembled