| 1816.
CHAP. 74. |
LAWS OF MARYLAND.
each ward to hold the first election for common council-men; and
the said judges, or such of them as shall attend, shall conduct the
said elections in the manner in which the judges of an election district
are now by law directed to hold an election for delegates to
the assembly, as far as may be consistent with the other provisions
of this act; and the said judge or judges of election for mayor and
aldermen, and the several judges for the election of the members of
the common council, shall jointly make return, under their hands
and seals, of the persons elected as mayor, aldermen, and members
of the common council, to the clerk of Frederick county, to be by
him safely kept, and a register shall be elected according to the
provisions of this act, to whom he is required, on application, to
deliver the same; and no person shall be chosen an alderman of
said town, at the said first election, unless he be actually assessed
in the county assessment, and be in all other respects qualified as
an alderman is by this law required, except only as to being taxed
by the corporation; the person so chosen at the said first election, to
be notified thereof by the judges of election, within three days
thereafter; all future elections to be held by such judge or judges,
in such manner as shall be directed from time to time by ordinance
of the corporation, the same not being inconsistent with this law. |
Mayor's salary.
Proviso. |
19. AND BE IT ENACTED, That the mayor may,
in addition to
his fees, receive an annual salary, to be fixed by ordinance of the
corporation; Provided always, that every ordinance fixing the
annual salary of the mayor, shall continue or be in force for one
year, and no longer. |
Mayor may take
acknowledgment
of deeds, &c. |
20. AND BE IT ENACTED, That the mayor of Frederick
may
take the acknowledgment of any deed or instrument of writing,
required by the laws of this state to be acknowledged, and any acknowledgment
so taken by him shall have the same force and effect
as if taken by one or two justices of the peace of Frederick
county, and the mayor shall be entitled to receive therefor the sum
of fifty cents. |
| Vagrants. |
21. AND BE IT ENACTED, That the aldermen and
common council
may, by ordinance, provide for taking up, fining or committing
to the work-house in Frederick-town, all vagrant and loose and
disorderly persons, and persons having no visible means of support
and livelihood, and common disturbers of his or her neighbourhood,
that may be found within the jurisdiction of said town;
and it is hereby made the duty of the keeper or overseer of the said
work-house to receive and safe keep all persons who shall be so
committed, according to the tenor of such commitment. |
| Fine. |
22. AND BE IT ENACTED, That no ordinance of
the said corporation
shall impose a fine of more than twenty dollars for any one
offence, or authorise a commitment to the work-house for more
than thirty days at one time; and that all fines imposed by virtue
of any law or ordinance of the corporation, may be recovered before
the mayor or a justice of the peace, in the same manner that
small debts are recoverable in this state, and subject to the same
appeal; and in all such proceedings any constable of the corporation
shall, within the limits of the corporation, have the same powers,
and proceed in the same manner, and have the same fees, as
the constable of an hundred in the case of small debts; all fines to
be to the use of the corporation, and to be appropriated in such manner
as may from time to time by ordinance by directed. |
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