| CHARLES GOLDSBOROUGH, ESQUIRE, GOVERNOR.
to be binding, and of as full effect on all parties, as if no alteration
had been made in the charter of said city. |
1818.
CHAP. 194. |
6. AND BE IT ENACTED, That in case of the
death, refusal, disqualification,
resignation, or removal of the mayor out of the limits
of the city, the aldermen and common council-men, for the time
being, shall elect a mayor for the residue of the term; and in case
of the death, refusal, disqualification, resignation, or removal
from the limits of the city of an aldermen, the board of aldermen
and common council-men for the time being, shall proceed to elect,
by joint ballot, an alderman to fill the vacancy for the residue of
the term; and in case of the death, refusal, disqualification, resignation,
or removal from the limits of the city, of member of the
common council, the mayor for the time being, shall, within ten
days after such death, refusal, disqualification, resignation, or removal
from the limits of the said city, issue a writ of election to
supply such vacancy for the residue of the term. |
Vacancies, how to
be supplied. |
7. AND BE IT ENACTED, That the mayor, recorder,
aldermen
and common council-men, shall hold their first session in the city of
Annapolis on the second Monday of April eighteen hundred and
nineteen, and on the second Monday of each and every month in
every year thereafter; but the mayor may summon them to convene
whenever and as often as it may appear to him that the interests of
the city may require their deliberations; a majority of the aldermen
and common council-men shall be a quorum to do business,
but a smaller number may adjourn from day to day; they may
compel the attendance of absent members in such manner, and under
such penalties, as they may by ordinance provide; they shall
settle their rules of proceedings, appoint their own officers and remove
them at pleasure; they shall judge of their elections, returns
and qualifications of their own members, and may with the concurrence
of a majority of the whole number, expel any member
for disorderly behaviour or malconduct in office, but not a second
time for the same cause; they shall keep a journal of their proceedings,
and enter the yeas and nays upon any question, resolve or
ordinance, if required by any one member, and their deliberations
shall be public. |
First session to be
held on second
Monday of April,
1818, &c. |
8. AND BE IT ENACTED, That the mayor, recorder,
aldermen
and common council, shall have full power and authority to enact
and pass all laws and ordinances necessary to preserve the health
of the city; prevent and remove nuisances; to prevent the introduction
of contagious diseases within the city; to establish night watches
and patroles, and erect lamps; to establish new streets, lanes and alleys,
with the consent of three fourths of the proprietors of the
lots or houses adjoining such streets, lanes and alleys; to erect and
repair bridges; to pave and keep in repair all necessary drains and
sewers, and to pass all regulations necessary for the preservation
of the same; to regulate and fix the assize of bread; to provide for
the appointment and define the duties of city commissioners, city
constables, market-masters, guagers, wood-corders, harbour masters,
hay-weighers and inspectors; to provide for the safe keeping
and preservation of the standard of weights and measures fixed by
congress, or by an act of the state of Maryland, and for the regulating
thereby all weights and measures used within the city; to
regulate party walls and partition fences; to erect and regulate |
Powers of mayor,
&c. |
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