| 1816.
CHAP. 74. |
LAWS OF MARYLAND.
used in the said town; to restrain or prohibit gaming, and to provide
for licensing, regulating, or restraining theatrical, or other
public amusements, within the limits of the corporations; to erect
and regulate pumps in the streets, lanes and alleys; to impose and
appropriate fines, penalties and forfeitures, for the breach of their
by-laws or ordinances; to lay and collect taxes; to enact by-laws
for the prevention and extinguishment of fire; and to pass al ordinances
necessary for paving and keeping in repair the streets, lanes
and alleys, in the town aforesaid, and for widening the same with
the consent of three-fourths of those interested; to tax any particular
part or district of the town for paving the streets, lanes and alleys
therein, or for sinking wells and erecting pumps, which may
appear for the benefit of such particular part or district; to make a
new assessment of all real and personal property, as often as it may
be necessary; to punish corporally any servant or slave guilty of a
breach of any ordinance, unless the master or mistress pay the fine
annexed to the offence. And to pass all ordinances necessary to
give effect and operation to all the powers vested in the corporation
of the town of Frederick; all laws to be signed by the mayor. |
Mayors powers—
Oath. |
11. AND BE IT ENACTED, That the mayor and
each of the aldermen,
shall in virtue of their office, have and exercise within the
limits of the corporation, all the jurisdiction and powers of a justice
of the peace, except as to the recovery of small debts; the mayor
may call upon any officer of the town entrusted with the receipt
and expenditure of public money, for a statement of his accounts,
as often as he or the corporation may conceive it necessary; he
shall see that the ordinances are duly and faithfully executed, and
shall report annually to the corporation, during the first five days
of their session, a general state of the town, with an accurate account
of the money received and expended, to be published for the
information of the citizens: The mayor and corporation of the
town of Frederick, the judges and clerks of the elections, and all
other officers of the town, before they enter upon the execution of
their respective offices, shall severally take the following oath, or
affirmation: " I do solemnly swear, (or affirm, as the case may be)
that I will faithfully execute the office of _____ to the best of my
knowledge and ability, without favour, affection, or partiality." |
| Collection of tax. |
12. AND BE IT ENACTED, That he person or persons
appointed
to collect any tax imposed in virtue of the powers granted by this
act, shall have authority to collect the same, by distress and sale
of the goods and chattels of the person chargeable therewith, bu
no sale shall be made unless ten days previous notice thereof be
given; and of the tax imposed shall be chargeable on any real property,
and no goods or chattels can be found liable to be distressed
therefor, the same may be recovered by action or attachment, in
Frederick county court, in the name of the mayor, aldermen, and
common council of Frederick; and where any such action shall be
brought, the mayor, aldermen, and common council of Frederick,
may declare generally for money had and received to the use of the
mayor, aldermen, and common council of Frederick, and give this
law and the special mater in evidence; the said tax to be and remain
a lien on the real property so taxed, until the tax is paid. |
Register to be annually
elected. |
13. AND BE IT ENACTED, That a register for
the town shall be
annually elected by the joint ballot of aldermen and |
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