| CHARLES RIDGELY, OF HAMPTON, ESQ. GOVERNOR.
term of thirty days after rendering such account, and if not then
paid, it shall be lawful for the bailiff, and he is hereby required, to
proceed to the collection thereof if necessary, by seizure and sale
of the goods and chattels of every person refusing or delaying to
pay such assessment, and the said bailiff shall account for the amount
of such assessment with the said commissioners, at or before
the end of three months after the receipts of every such list or assessment,
and pay the sums collected under the penalty of double
the amount thereof. |
1815.
CHAP. 136. |
11. AND BE IT ENACTED, That the several penalties
(a) and
forfeitures which may be incurred by any person in virtue of this
act, shall be recovered by any justice of the peace of the said
county upon the complaint and oath, or affirmation, of one competent
and credible witness, and shall and may be levied by commitment
of the offender in execution to the sheriff of said county,
until payment of the penalty and fees, or by process in the nature
of a fieri facias, directed to the bailiff of the said town, for
levying
the same by seizure and sale of the goods and chattels of the offender;
and the fees to the bailiff shall be the same as are or may
be allowed by law to sheriffs for executing a writ of fieri facias;
and the said penalties and forfeitures, and all monies arising by
virtue of this act, shall be accounted for by the officers or person
collecting or receiving the same, to the said commissioners, and be
applied by them to such purposes as may improve or concern the
regulations of the said town.
(a) See 1818, ch. 11. |
Penalties and forfeitures. |
12. AND BE IT ENACTED, That the said commissioners
shall have
full power and authority to appoint a supervisor or supervisors of
the streets, lanes and alleys, of the said town, and may order and
direct in what manner the said streets, lanes and alleys, shall be
kept up and repaired, and may allow such supervisor such compensation
for his services as they may deem reasonable. |
Supervisors. |
13. AND BE IT ENACTED, That all money levied
on and collected
from the property on the west and east side of Will's Creek in
the said town, except so much as may be necessary to pay an equal
proportion of the salary to the clerk and bailiff, shall be laid out
and expended in the improvement of that side of the town on which
it was levied and collected as aforesaid. |
Money levied east
and west of Will's
creek. |
14. AND BE IT ENACTED, That any justice of
the peace for the
county aforesaid shall, in the first instance, be the judge of the
said election, and shall return his certificate thereof to the said commissioners
on the day first appointed for their meeting, and the
same shall be filed and recorded among their proceedings; and at
every subsequent election the commissioners of the said town, or a
majority of them, shall be judges of such election, and the proceedings
thereof shall be recorded under their direction; and every commissioner
before he shall proceed to open an election, shall take
an oath, or affirmation, that he will faithfully and impartially permit
every person to vote at such election who shall be qualified to
vote for a commissioner of the said town, according to the directions
of this act, and that he will not suffer any person to vote at such
election who shall not in his judgment be qualified to vote as aforesaid. |
Judges of elections
&c. |
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