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Proceedings and Acts of the General Assembly, 1867
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THOMAS SWANN, ESQUIRE, GOVERNOR. 541

impose such reasonable fines, forfeitures, or im-
prisonment in said watch-house as to them may
appear necessary for the violation of any ordinance
of said town, and they shall have power to require
a license from all circuses, manageries, theatrical
exhibitions and other shows and exhibitions for
gain exhibiting in said town; they shall have power
to require a license from the owners and keepers
of hacks, carts, wagons, drays and every descrip-
tion of wheeled carriages kept for hire in said town,
and also from auction stores, hawkers and pedlars.

Sec. 90. The Mayor and Councilmen may, when
requested in writing by the owners of a majority
of the front feet of the property or lots on any
street or alley or parts thereof in said town, cause
the same to be graded, paved or otherwise improv-
ed, and assess and levy the expenses thereof on the
property or lots binding on such street or alley in
proportion to the number of front feet such pro-
perty or lots bind thereon; and the sum levied
shall be a lien on the property or lots on which the
same shall be levied, and if the same shall remain
unpaid for sixty days after the same is due, and
there be no personal property of the owner of said
property, lot or lots thereon, upon which the bailiff
of said town may levy and make the sum assessed,
the same may be levied on so much of the said
property, lot or lots of the person owing such taxes
as the said Mayor or Councilmen shall deem suffi-
cient to pay the same, which they shall lay off and
designate, and after the same is so laid off and
designated the bailiff of said town shall, after at
least twenty days previous notice published in some
newspaper printed in the City of Cumberland, and
notice posted in said town of the manner, time,
place and terms of sale, sell the part or parts of
said property, lot or lots so laid off, at public sale
for cash, after deducting the expenses of advertis-
ing and sale and paying the sums levied as afore-
said, shall pay the balance if any over to the owner
of the property so sold; and the guardian of an
infant or infant owners shall have full power on
behalt of his ward or wards to make application
under this Section, and the Mayor and Councilmen
shall execute and deliver to the purchaser a deed
of the property sold with the seal of the said town

May grade
and pave
streets, &c.



 
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