| CHARLES RIDGELY, OF HAMPTON, ESQ. GOVERNOR.
disqualification, resignation, or removal of an alderman, out
of the taxable limits of the town, the board of aldermen, and the
common council, for the time being, shall proceed to elect by joint
ballot, an alderman to fill the vacancy for the residue of the term;
and in case of the death, refusal, disqualification, resignation, or
removal out of the taxable limits of the town, of a member of the
common council, an election shall be made by the voters of the
ward wherein the vacancy happened, to fill the vacancy. |
1816.
CHAP. 74. |
9. AND BE IT ENACTED, That aldermen and common
council
shall hold their first session at the court-house in Frederick, or at
some other place within said town, on the third Monday in March,
eighteen hundred and seventeen, and they shall meet on the third
Monday in March in every year thereafter, but the mayor may
summon them to convene whenever, and as often as it may appear
to him that the interest of the corporation may require their deliberation;
a majority of the aldermen and common council shall
be a quorum to do business in their respective branches, but a smaller
number may adjourn from day to day; they may compel the attendance
of absent members, in such manner, and under such
penalties, as they may by ordinance provide; each branch shall
appoint their respective presidents, who shall provide at their sessions,
and shall vote on all questions; they shall settle their rules
of proceedings, appoint their own officers, and remove them at
pleasure; they shall judge of the elections, returns, and qualifications
of their own members, and may with the concurrence of three-fourths
of the whole, expel any member for disorderly behaviour,
or malconduct in office, but a second time for the same cause;
they shall keep a journal of their proceedings, and enter the yeas
and nays on any question, resolve, or ordinance, at the request of
any member, and their deliberations shall be public. |
Meetings, when to
be held. |
10. AND BE IT ENACTED, That the aldermen and
common council
shall have full power and authority to enact and pass all laws
and ordinances necessary to preserve the health of the town; prevent
and remove nuisances; to prevent the introduction of contagious
diseases within the town, and within three miles of the same;
to establish night watches or patroles, and erect lamps; to establish
mew streets, lanes and alleys, with the consent of three-fourths of
the proprietors of the lots of houses adjoining such streets, lanes
and alleys; to erect and repair bridges; to pave and keep in repair
all necessary drain and sewers, and to pass all regulations necessary
for the preservation for the same; to regulate and fix the assize
of bread; to provide for the appointment, and define the duties
of market-masters, guagers, wood-cordes, hay-weighers and
inspectors; to provide for the safe keeping and preservation of the
standard of weights and measures fixed by congress, or by an act
of the state of Maryland, and for the regulating thereby all weights
and measures used within the town; to regulate party walls and
partition fences; to erect and regulate markets; to provide for
licensing and regulating the sweeping or burning of chimneys, and
fixing the rates thereof, within the town, and for regulating the
sweeping of any chimney, by the neglect of which the safety of the
town may be endangered, and to ascertain the size of those to be
built in the town; to establish and regulate fire-wards and fire companies;
to regulate and establish the size of bricks that are to be |
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