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LEVIN WINDER, ESQUIRE, GOVERNOR.
inhabitants and others, entitled to vote for commissioners according
to this act, to be and continue registered, 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 be subject to the inspection and examination of the
inhabitants of the said town, and all persons who may be concerned;
to cause the persons entitled to vote as aforesaid to be 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 a just and
fair assessment and valuation of all the property, real and personal,
within the limits of the said town, to be made and returned, from
time to time, by some skilful and discreet person to be 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 as aforesaid,)
to impose and levy on the property so directed to be assessed and
valued, any sum or sums of money, in equal and fair proportions,
provided the money so to be imposed and levied shall not exceed in
any one year the rate of one dollar for every hundred pounds of
property, according to such respective assessments and valuation,
and in the same proportion upon every greater or smaller share of
property; to appoint and qualify an active and discreet person annually,
to be bailiff of the said town, and to give him such directions
in the execution of his office as shall be necessary to accomplish
the intentions of this act; to pay their clerk and the bailiff
of the said town respectively, a reasonable allowance for their services,
to be rated by the said commissioners on the property aforesaid,
by equal assessments; and generally to order and promote
such regulations and improvements for the benefit and advantage
of the said town, as the said commissioners or the inhabitants
thereof, shall determine to be necessary. |
NOV. 1812.
CHAP. 72. |
8. AND BE IT ENACTED, That any person or persons
who may
think him, her or themselves aggrieved by the valuation of the
said assessor, may at any time, within six weeks after the completion
and return of such assessment, appeal to the said commissioners,
who may thereupon, and in all cases where they shall judge
the valuation of such assessor to be unequal, make such alteration
therein as to them shall seem just and reasonable. |
Persons aggrieved
by valuation of assessor
may appeal
to commissioners. |
9. AND BE IT ENACTED, That the bailiff of
the said town shall
be appointed annually on the first Monday in May (a); and before
he shall proceed to execute his office, he shall take an oath, or affirmation,
before the said commissioners, or any one of them, that
he will faithfully and impartially perform the duties required of
him as bailiff of the said town by this act, according to the best of
his skill and judgment, and without favour, affection or prejudice;
and the duties of the said bailiff shall be to attend the meetings of
the said commissioners whenever he shall be required; to perform
such services for more effectually accomplishing the objects of this
(a) By May 1813, ch. 2, the appointment
to be made at any time, on giving
ten days notice. |
A bailiff to be appointed
annually
—His duties. |
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