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JOHN FRANCIS MERCER, ESQUIRE, GOVERNOR.
4. AND BE IT ENACTED, That the said road shall
not pass
through any house, garden or orchard, or through any field in
which grain, flax or hemp, shall be growing, until the same shall be
gathered and secured, without the consent of the owner. |
1802.
CHAP. 53
Road not to go
through houses,
&c. |
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CHAP. LIV.
An Additional Supplement to the act, (a) entitled, An act
to erect a
Town in Queen-Anne's County.
Lib. JG. No. 4, fol. 258.
(a) 1794, ch. 23.--See 1804, ch. 46, and 1815, ch. 129. |
Passed Jan. 8, 1803. |
WHEREAS it is represented to this general assembly,
by the petition
of sundry inhabitants of the town of Centre-Ville, that they
experience great evils and inconveniencies from the want of sufficient
powers being lodged in the commissioners of said town to make
and establish such regulations and ordinances as are fitted to their
particular circumstances, wants and exigencies; therefore, |
Preamble. |
2. BE IT ENACTED, by the General Assembly
of Maryland, That
the commissioners of Centre-Ville shall have full power and authority
to enact and pass all such by-laws and ordinances as are necessary
to prevent and remove nuisances; to prohibit the running of
horses of driving of carts, wagons or other carriages, unreasonably
fast, within the limits of the town; to restrain or prohibit gaming;
to regulate and provide for the sweeping of chimnies, by the
neglect of which the safety of the town may be endangered; to prohibit
the firing of guns or pistols within the limits of the town; to
prevent the storage of gunpowder, or other combustible matter or
article, in such quantities or places within the town as may be
deemed dangerous to the safety of the same; to provide for improving
and amending the streets, lanes and alleys; to make such regulations
as may be useful and necessary relative to public wells and
pumps; to cause a just and fair assessment and valuation of all the
personal property within the limits of said town to be made and returned
to the commissioners annually, and to impose and levy on
the property so directed to be assessed and valued such sum or sums
of money, in just and fair proportions, according to valuations aforesaid,
as the commissioners shall deem necessary for the improvement
of said town, provided that the whole of the said sum or sums
of money, so levied as aforesaid, shall not exceed in any one year
the sum of forty dollars; to make such ordinances and regulations
as shall be necessary for levying and collecting annually a tax of
fifty cents on every dog, and one hundred cents on every bitch,
within the limits of said town, and to kill any dog or bitch whose
owner cannot be ascertained; to impose such fines, penalties and
forfeitures, for a breach of any of the by-laws or ordinances, as they
may think proper, not exceeding five dollars for any one offence; to
pass all ordinances necessary to give effect and operation to all the
powers vested in the commissioners; Provided, that the by-laws or
ordinances of the said commissioners shall be in no wise obligatory
upon the persons or nonresidents of the said town, being citizens of
this state, unless in cases of intentional violation of the by-laws or
ordinances previously promulgated. |
Commissioners
may enact by-laws
and ordinances.
Proviso. |
3. AND BE IT ENACTED, That all taxes, fines,
penalties and forfeitures,
to be imposed in consequence of this act, shall be recovered,
collected and appropriated, in the same manner as is prescribed
by the act, entitled, A supplement to the act to erect a town in |
Taxes, &c. how to
be recovered. |
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