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LEVIN WINDER, ESQUIRE, GOVERNOR.
of him by this law, as a commissioner of Hager's-town,
impartially and without favour or resentment to any, and without
delay. |
DEC. 1813.
CHAP. 121. |
7. AND BE IT ENACTED, That the said commissioners
shall meet
upon the business of the town at least four times in every year, to
wit. On the third Monday in April, in June, in September and in
December, and oftener if they deem it necessary; that at their first
meeting in each year they shall elect, from among themselves, one
of their own members, to be their moderator who shall, when so
elected, continue to be their moderator, for that year, provided he
continue so long in office; and upon all questions the moderator shall
be entitled to vote as one of the commissioners. |
Meeting of commissioners
—to
elect a moderator. |
8. AND BE IT ENACTED, That three commissioners
shall make
a quorum for the transaction of business, and if, during the year
for which they were elected, any one of the five commissioners
should die, resign, remove from the said town, or in any manner
become incapable of acting as such, the remaining commissioners
shall fill the vacancy so produced, by choosing and electing some
person, qualified as by this law it is directed a commissioner shall
be qualified, and such person, so by them chosed and elected,
shall
be commissioners of Hager's-town until the next general election
for commissioners. |
Vacancies, how to
be supplied. |
9. AND BE IT ENACTED, That the said commissioners,
or a majority
of them, shall have power to appoint their own clerk, and
assign him his duties, and also allow to him a salary, in their
discretion, not exceeding the sum of sixty dollars per annum. |
Clerk to be appointed. |
10. AND BE IT ENACTED, That each commissioner
shall be entitled
to have two dollars per day for every day that the board of
commissioners sit upon the business of the said town, to be paid to
him or them out of the funds of the said corporation; but if the
said commissioners be called to view and determine upon the limits
or boundaries of any lot or lots in the said town, or in the additions
thereto, or any of them, then the party or parties by whom
they are so called upon to act, shall pay to each commissioner so
acting, for his trouble, the sum of one dollar per day. |
Commissioners'
compensation. |
11. AND BE IT ENACTED, That the said commissioners,
or a majority
of them, shall have power and they are hereby required, annually,
to appoint a treasurer for the said corporation, and to allow to
such treasurer such a fixed annual salary as they shall deem proper
for his services; Provided, that the said treasurer, so appointed,
before he proceeds to act as such, shall give bond to the said
corporate body, with security to be approved by the said commissioners,
or a majority of them, in the sum of one thousand dollars,
conditioned for the faithful discharge of his duty as treasurer. |
To appoint a treasurer.
Proviso. |
12. AND BE IT ENACTED, That the ordinances
and proceedings
of the said commissioners shall, by their clerk, be entered in a
book to be by him kept for that purpose, shall be signed by the
moderator for the time being, and be countersigned by the clerk,
and shall be open at all times to the inspection of any person; and
all ordinances shall be published at least once in some German and
some English paper printed in the said town, that the same may be
known and made public. |
Ordinances and
proceedings to be
entered in a book,
&c. |
13. AND BE IT ENACTED, That the said commissioners,
or a
majority of them, shall have power to regulate by ordinance, from
time to time, as public utility may in their opinion require, the |
Powers of commissioners. |
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