| CHARLES GOLDSBOROUGH, ESQUIRE, GOVERNOR.
opening and extending the back and necessary cross alleys of the
said town, provided that the said taxes shall not exceed twenty
cents on every hundred dollars worth of taxable property in any
one year, which they may collect as county taxes are collected, by
such persons as the burgess may see fit to appoint; all ordinances
and by-laws to be signed by the burgess. |
1818.
CHAP. 128. |
6. AND BE IT ENACTED, That the said commissioners
shall lay
off the back alleys of the said town, according to the following directions:
The first back alley shall commence at the east corner of
Jacob Yingling's lot, and run thence parallel with the main street
of Westminster, sixteen and a half feet wide, until it intersects the
back alley at Winter's Addition to Westminster; the second back
alley shall begin at the south corner of Thomas Mitten's lot, and
run thence parallel with the main street aforesaid, sixteen and a
half feet wide, until it intersects the road leading from Westminster
to Thomas Wells's mill at the Goose Pond. |
To lay off the
back alleys of
town. |
7. AND BE IT ENACTED, That the said commissioners,
or a majority
of them, shall have power to appoint their own clerk, and
assign to him his duties, and also to allow him a salary in their
discretion, not exceeding the sum of twenty dollars per annum. |
To appoint a clerk
and assign his duties. |
8. AND BE IT ENACTED, That all ordinances
passed by the said
commissioners by their clerk be entered in a book to be kept
by him for that purpose, and shall be open at all times for the inspection
of any person, and copies of said ordinances shall be put
up in the most public places of said town that the same may be generally
made known. |
Ordinances to be
entered in a book. |
9. AND BE IT ENACTED, That all fines and forfeitures
under the
ordinances of the said corporation, shall be recovered before the
burgess aforesaid, in like manner as small debts are recovered out
of court. |
Fines and forfeitures,
how to be
recovered. |
10. AND BE IT ENACTED, That the said commissioners
shall meet
upon the business of the town at least three times in every year,
and four commissioners shall make a quorum for the transaction of
business; and if during the year for which they are elected, any
of the six commissioners should die, resign, remove from the said
town, or in any manner become incapable of acting as such, the
remaining commissioners shall fill the vacancy so produced, by
choosing and electing some person qualified as is herein before directed,
and such person so chosen shall act as commissioner until
the next general election. |
Commissioners to
meet at least three
times a year—four
to be a quorum. |
11. AND BE IT ENACTED, That no ordinance of
the said corporation
shall impose a fine of more than ten dollars for any offence. |
No ordinance to
impose a fine of
more than ten dollars. |
12. AND BE IT ENACTED, That the burgess, and
commissioners
aforesaid, shall take an oath before a justice of the peace of Frederick
county, before they proceed to the execution of their several
duties, to act without favour, partiality or affection, in all things
appertaining to their respective trusts. |
Burgess and commissioners
to take
an oath. |
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CHAP. CXXIX.
A Supplement to an act*, entitled, An act appointing Commissioners
to revise and correct the original plot of the Town
of Cumberland,
in Allegany County. Lib. TH. No. 6, fol. 343. |
Passed Feb. 5, 1819.
* 1816, ch. 92. |
1. BE IT ENACTED, by the General Assembly
of Maryland, That
Adam Sigler and David Shriver, junior, be and the same are hereby |
Additional commissioners
appointed. |
