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CHAP. 127. |
LAWS OF MARYLAND.
been running at large in said town for the space of twenty-four
hours, it shall be considered as being by the consent of the owner
or owners. |
Act repealed
* Ch. 3. |
9. AND BE IT ENACTED, That an act, entitled,
An act to prevent
swine from going at large in the town of Salisbury, in Somerset
and Worcester counties, passed at November session eighteen hundred
and one*, or so much thereof as is repugnant to the provisions
of this act, be and the same are hereby repealed. |
Act, when to take
effect. |
10. AND BE IT ENACTED, That this act shall
not take effect before
the first day of June next. |
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Passed Feb. 5, 1819. |
CHAP. CXXVIII.
An Act to incorporate Westminster, in Frederick County. Lib.
TH.
No. 6, fol. 341. |
Three adjoining
towns to be hereafter
known by
the name of Westminster. |
1. BE IT ENACTED, by the General Assembly
of Maryland, That
the three adjoining towns, now called and known by the names of
Westminster, New London, and Winter's Addition to Westminster,
shall for ever hereafter be called and known by the name of
Westminster. |
Constituted an
incorporate town. |
2. AND BE IT ENACTED, That Westminster aforesaid
shall be
and is hereby constituted an incorporate town, and the inhabitants
thereof constituted a body politic and incorporate, by the name of
the burgess and commissioners of Westminster, and as such shall
have perpetual succession, and by their corporate name may sue
and be sued, implead and be impleaded. |
Burgess and six
commissioners to
be annually elected. |
3. AND BE IT ENACTED, That the free white
male citizens of
Westminster aforesaid, of the age of twenty-one years and upwards,
and having resided six months in the said town next preceding
the election, be authorised to elect on the first Monday of
April, in the year eighteen hundred and nineteen, and on the same
day annually for ever thereafter, the burgess and six commissioners
for the said town, who shall be inhabitants thereof, above twenty-five
years of age, and holding real property in the said town; the
election to be held at the most central part of said town, and the
polls to be kept open from nine o'clock in the morning until two in
the afternoon. |
Judges to be appointed
for holding
first election. |
4. AND BE IT ENACTED, That a justice of the
peace, for the
time being, residing in or near Westminster, shall appoint, by writing
under his hand and seal, one judge to hold the first election
for burgess and commissioners, and the said judge shall conduct
the said election in the manner in which the judges of an election
district are now by law directed to hold an election for delegates to
the general assembly, as far as may be consistent with the other
provisions of this act; and the said judge shall make return, under
his hand and seal, of the persons elected as burgess and commissioners,
to the clerk of Frederick county, to be by him safely kept;
all future elections to be held by one or more 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. |
| Powers of commissioners. |
5. AND BE IT ENACTED, That the said commissioners
shall have
full power and authority to enact and pass all laws and ordinances
to preserve the health of the town, prevent and remove nuisances;
to impose and appropriate fines, penalties and forfeitures, for the
breach of their by-laws or ordinances; to lay and collect taxes for |
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