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CHAP. 154. |
LAWS OF MARYLAND.
and for repairing the said bridge, and shall on the first Monday of
April and October in every year, publish the dividend to be made
of the said clear profits thereof, among the stockholders, and of
the time and place where and when the same shall be paid, and
shall cause the same to be paid accordingly. |
Penalty for injuring
any part of
bridge. |
14. AND BE IT ENACTED, That if any person
or persons shall
wilfully, or without the orders of the said president and directors,
pull down, break or destroy, with intent to injure any part or parts
of said bridge, or of any abutment, pier or piers, or of any of the
toll-houses, grates, bars, or other property of the said corporation,
appertenant to, or erected or made for, the use and convenience of
the said bridge, or the persons employed in conducting the business
thereof, or shall wilfully, without the orders and consent of
the said corporation, obliterate, deface or destroy the letters, figures,
or other characters, in any written or printed list of the rates or
tolls affixed or to be affixed in any place or places for the information
of passengers or others, or who shall wilfully or maliciously
obstruct or impede the passage on or over the said bridge, or any
part or parts thereof, he, she or they, so offending, shall, and each
of them shall forfeit and pay to the said president and directors and
company the sum of twenty dollars, to be recovered before a justice
of the peace, in like manner and subject to the same rules and regulations,
as debts under fifty dollars may be recovered; and he, she
or they, so offending, may and shall remain liable to action at the
suit of the said president and directors for further damages for
such offences, if the said sums herein mentioned be not sufficient
to
repair and satisfy such damages. |
No toll to be received
on day of
election, &c. |
15. AND BE IT ENACTED, That nothing contained
in this act
shall authorise the receiving or taking of any toll on the day of
any election from any voter going to or returning from the election. |
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Passed Feb. 10, 1819. |
CHAP. CLV.
An Act Supplementary to the act(a), entitled, An act to provide
for
the appointment of Commissioners for the regulation
of improvement
of Easton, in Talbot County, and to establish and regulate
a
Market at the said Town. Lib. TH. No. 6, fol.
370.
(a) 1790, ch. 14. See 1806, ch. 63. |
| Preamble. |
WHEREAS it appears from the representations of sundry
inhabitants
of the town of Easton, to be expedient to enlarge the powers
of the commissioners; therefore, |
Commissioners authorised
to impose
a tax without convening
voters.
Proviso. |
1. BE IT ENACTED, by the General Assembly
of Maryland, That
the commissioners of the town of Easton shall be, and they are
hereby authorised and empowered, whenever they may deem it necessary
for any purpose connected with the regulation and improvement
of the town, or the preservation of good order therein,
to levy and impose, upon the assessable property of the town, such
a tax as they in their judgment and discretion shall deem reasonable,
necessary and proper, without convening the voters of the
town, as required by the original act aforesaid; Provided however,
that no such tax shall ever exceed in any one year the rate of fifty
cents for every hundred dollars worth of assessable property in the
town, and any such tax, when so imposed or levied, shall and may be
collected by the bailiff of the town, under the direction of the said |
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