| CHARLES RIDGELY, OF HAMPTON, ESQ. GOVERNOR.
to supply every such vacancy during the remainder of the term,
and the time of holding such intervening election shall be notified
for the space of ten days preceding the election. |
1815.
CHAP. 136. |
6. AND BE IT ENACTED, That the said commissioners
shall be
and they are hereby authorised and required, to meet at the court-house
in the said town, or some other convenient place, as often as
they, or a major part of them, may think necessary, and from time
to time to ordain and organize such plans and regulations as they
shall judge beneficial to the town, or the inhabitants thereof; to
cause to be removed all nuisances and obstructions that may interrupt
the passage of the said inhabitants or others, in the streets,
lanes and alleys, of the said town; to cause the streets to be repaired
and improved, and to provide means for those salutary purposes,
and shall make such by-laws for the good government of said
town, and the inhabitants thereof, and to restrain all disorders and
disturbances, and to prevent all nuisances and annoyances within
the said town, and other matters, exigencies and things, within
said town, as to them, or a majority of them, shall seem meet and
consonant to reason, and not contrary tot he constitution and laws
of the state; and such by-laws and regulations shall be observed
and performed by all the inhabitants of said town and others, under
such reasonable penalties, fines and forfeitures, as shall be imposed
by the said by-laws, the said penalties, fines and forfeitures,
to be levied by distress and sale of the goods, or execution of the
person so offending, and applied to the uses of the said town; to
appoint and qualify a clerk, whose duty it shall be keep fair and
cause a fair assessment and valuation of all the property, real and
personal, in said town, to be made out and returned from time to
time by some skilful and discreet person to be by them appointed
and qualified for such occasion; and when it shall be deemed necessary
for any purpose beneficial to the town, 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
to be imposed and levied shall not exceed in any one year the rate
of one dollar for every one hundred dollars worth of property, according
to appoint and qualify an active and discreet person annually, under
satisfactory security, to be the bailiff of the said town, and to
give 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
advantages of the said town, as the said commissioners shall determine
to be necessary. |
Powers of commissioners. |
7. AND BE IT ENACTED, That the quota of assessments
or tax
on the real property of nonresidents, in case there be not personal
property thereon, shall be collected out of the rents of such property,
by attachment in the nature of fieri facias, against rights. |
Tax on nonresidents. |
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