| CHARLES RIDGELY, OF HAMPTON, ESQ. GOVERNOR.
CHAP. LXXIV.
An Act to incorporate Frederick-Town, in Frederick County.
Lib.
TH. No. 5, fol. 210.
A Supplement, 1818, ch. 140. |
1816.
CHAP. 74.
Passed Jan. 14, 1817 |
1. BE IT ENACTED, by the General Assembly
of Maryland, That
Frederick-Town, in Frederick county, shall be and is hereby constituted
an incorporate town, by the name of Frederick, and the
inhabitants thereof constituted a body politic and incorporate, by
the name of The Mayor, Aldermen and Common Council of
Frederick, and as such shall have perpetual succession, and by
their corporate name may sue and be sued, implead and be impleaded,
grant, receive, and do all other acts as natural persons, and
may purchase and hold real, personal and mixed property, or dispose
of the same for the benefit of the said town, and may have
and use a common seal, which may be broken or altered at pleasure. |
Town incorporated. |
2. AND BE IT ENACTED, That the limits of the
said town, for
all purposes except taxation by the laws of the corporation, shall
be as follows: Beginning at the forty-four mile-stone on the Baltimore
and Frederick-town turnpike road, about three quarters of a
mile from the east end of Frederick town, and running thence with
a straight line so as to include John Hugh's brick-house, thence
with a straight line so as to include John McPherson's house, (formerly
Schnertzell's) thence with a straight line to include John Graham's
house, thence with a straight line to the mouth of Carroll's
creek, and thence with a straight line to the aforesaid forty four
mile-stone; and that the taxable limits of the said town shall be as
follows: All the lots originally laid out as Frederick-town, with
all additions thereto, including Bentz town, and Jacob and Michael
Buckey's dwelling-house and tan-yard, and Stephen Steiner's dwelling and
tavern stand on the west end, and Jacob Lease's on the north end
of said town, also Ramsburg's mill, also the English Presbyterian
church, and the lots fronting on the west side of Bentz-street,
from Ramsburg's mill to the aforesaid church, both inclusive. |
Limits defined. |
3. AND BE IT ENACTED, That the mayor of the
said town shall
be elected for three years, the aldermen for three years, and the
members of the common council for one year. |
Time for which
mayor, &c. is to
be elected. |
4. AND BE IT ENACTED, That all free white
male citizens,
above the age of twenty-one years, having resided twelve months
next preceding the election at which he shall offer to vote, within
the taxable limits of the said town, shall be entitled to vote for
mayor, aldermen, and a member of the common council, as herein
after directed; all elections shall be ballot. |
Qualification of
voters. |
5. AND BE IT ENACTED, That the citizens of
the said town,
qualified as aforesaid, shall on the last Monday of February, in
the year eighteen hundred and seventeen, and on the same day in
every third year for ever thereafter, elect the mayor and five aldermen
for the said town; the election to be held at the court-house
of the town, and the polls to be kept open from nine o'clock in the
morning until four in the afternoon. |
Election of mayor
and aldermen. |
6. AND BE IT ENACTED, That for the purpose
of electing the
members of the common council, the said town is hereby divided
into the seven following wards: All that part of the town, commonly |
Town divided into
seven wards. |
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