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CHAP. 194. |
LAWS OF MARYLAND.
markets; to provide for licensing and regulating the sweeping or
burning of chimnies, and fixing the rate thereof within the town,
and for regulating the sweeping of any chimney by the neglect of
which the safety of the city might be endangered, and to ascertain
the size of those to be built in the city; to establish and regulate
fire wards and five companies; to regulate and establish the size of
bricks that are to be burned in the said city; to restrain or prohibit
gaming, and to provide for licensing, regulating, or restraining
theatrical or other public amusements, within the limits of the corporation;
to erect and regulate pumps in the streets, lanes and alleys;
to impose and appropriate fines, penalties and forfeitures, for
the breach of their by-laws or ordinances; to collect and lay taxes
not exceeding one per centum on the assessable property; to enact
by-laws for the prevention and extinguishment of fire; and to pass
all ordinances necessary for paving and keeping in repair the streets,
lanes and alleys, in the city aforesaid, and for widening the same,
with the consent of three fourths of those interested; to tax any
particular part or district of the city for paving the streets, lanes
and alleys therein, or for sinking wells, and erecting pumps, which
may appear for the benefit of such particular part or district; to
make a new assessment of all real and personal property as often
as it may be necessary; to punish corporally any servant or slave
guilty of a breach of any ordinance, unless the master or mistress
pay the fine annexed to the offence; and to pass all ordinances necessary
to give effect and operation to all the powers vested in the
corporation of the city of Annapolis. All laws to be signed by the
mayor. |
Mayor, recorder
and aldermen, to
exercise powers of
justices of the
peace—mayor's
duties.
Oath of mayor, &c. |
9. AND BE IT ENACTED, That the mayor, recorder,
and each of
the aldermen, shall in virtue of their office have and exercise within
the limits of the corporation, all the jurisdiction and powers of a
justice of the peace; the mayor may call upon any officer of the
city intrusted with the receipt and expenditure of public money
for a statement of his accounts, as often as he or the corporation
may conceive it necessary; he shall see that the ordinances are duly
and faithfully executed, and shall report annually to the corporation,
during the first five days of their session, a general state
of the city, with an accurate account of the money received and
expended, to be published for the information of the citizens. The
mayor and corporation of the city of Annapolis, the judges and
clerks of the elections, and all other officers of the city, before
they enter upon the execution of their respective offices, shall severally
take the following oath, or affirmation: I do solemnly swear,
or affirm, (as the case may be,) that I will faithfully execute the
office of _____, to the best of my knowledge and ability, without
favour, affection or partiality. |
Taxes may be collected
by distress
and sale of goods,
&c. |
10. AND BE IT ENACTED, That the person or
persons appointed
to collect any tax imposed in virtue of the powers granted by this
act, shall have authority to collect the same by distress and sale
of the goods and chattels of the person chargeable therewith, but
no sale shall be made unless three weeks previous notice thereof
be given; and if the tax imposed shall be chargeable on any real
property, and no goods or chattels can be found liable to be distressed
therefor, the same may be recovered by action or attachment
in Anne-Arundel county court, in the name of the mayor, |
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