| CHARLES GOLDSBOROUGH, ESQUIRE, GOVERNOR.
aldermen and common council, of the city of Annapolis; and when
any such action shall be brought, the mayor aldermen and common
council, may declare generally for money had and received to
the use of the mayor, aldermen, and common council of the city
of Annapolis, and give the law and the special matter in evidence;
the said tax to be and remain a lien on the real property so taxed
until the tax is paid. |
1818.
CHAP. 194. |
11. AND BE IT ENACTED, That the aldermen and
common council
may by ordinance, from time to time, as often as they think it
necessary to cause a correct survey of the said city, and the additions
thereto, to be made, and to establish and fix permanent boundaries
and stones at such places as they think necessary, with proper
marks and devices thereon, to ascertain and perpetuate the lines
of said city, and the additions thereto; and also be authorised from
time to time, to survey and ascertain the streets, lanes, alleys and
lots, of the said city, and the additions thereto, and to declare the
same, and to adjudge as nuisances any encroachment on the streets,
lanes or alleys, and to cause the same to be removed at the expense
of the person offending; and the survey of the said city,
and the additions thereto, and of the streets, lanes, alleys and lots
thereof, when made, shall be signed by the mayor, and the seal of
the corporation be thereto annexed, and be deposited with the clerk
of the corporation of the said city, and be received in evidence as
boundaries of the said city and of the lots, lanes and alleys therein. |
May cause survey
of city to be made,
establish boundaries,
&c. |
12. AND BE IT ENACTED, That the mayor of the
city of Annapolis
may take the acknowledgment of any deed or instrument of writing,
required by the laws of this state to be acknowledged, and
any acknowledgment so taken by him, shall have the same force
and effect as if taken by any one or two justices of the peace of
Anne-Arundel county, and the mayor shall be entitled to receive
therefor the sum of fifty cents. |
Mayor may take
acknowledgments
of deeds, &c. |
13. AND BE IT ENACTED, That the mayor, recorder,
aldermen
and common council, may be ordinance, provide for taking up, fining
or committing to gaol of Anne-Arundel county, all vagrant, and
loose and disorderly person or persons having no visible means of
support and livelihood, and common disturbers of his or her neighbourhood,
that may be found within the jurisdiction of said city;
and it is hereby made the duty of the keeper of said gaol to receive
and safe keep all persons, who shall be so committed, according
to the tenor of such commitment. |
May provide for
taking up, fining
or committing to
gaol, all vagrants,
&c. |
14. AND BE IT ENACTED, That no ordinance of
the said corporation
shall impose a fine of more than twenty dollars for any one
offence, or authorise a commitment to the gaol for more than thirty
days at one time; and that all fines imposed by virtue of any law or
ordinance of the corporation, may be recovered before the mayor,
recorder, an alderman, or a justice of the peace, in the same manner
that small debts are recoverable in this state, and subject to
the same appeal; and in all such proceedings any constable of the
corporation shall, within the limits of the corporation, have the
same powers, and proceed in the same manner, and have the same
fees, as the constable of a hundred in the case of small debts; all
fines to be to the use of the corporation, and to be appropriated in
such manner as may from time to time by ordinance be directed. |
No fine to be imposed
above twenty
dollars—how to
be recovered. |
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