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ROBERT BOWIE, ESQUIRE, GOVERNOR.
4. AND BE IT ENACTED, That it shall and may
be lawful for the
said commissioners, or a majority of them, or their successors, to
remove, or cause to be removed, from the streets, lanes and alleys,
all nuisances and obstructions whatsoever, that is, shall or may be,
within the limits of said village, any law or usage to the contrary
notwithstanding. |
1804.
CHAP. 54.
To remove nuisances.
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5. AND BE IT ENACTED, That for the purpose
of defraying the
necessary expense of surveying and laying off said village, that it
shall and may be lawful for the said commissioners, or a majority
of them, or their successors, to lay an equal tax on all the real property
within the limits of said village, by some person to be appointed
by them, or a majority of them, or their successors, who
shall take an oath to make true valuation thereof in current money
of Maryland, to the best of his skill and judgment, and to make
a true return thereof in such reasonable time as the said commissioners,
or a majority of them, or their successors, shall require;
which said oath may be administered by any justice of the peace for
the county, or any one of the said commissioners, after they shall
have qualified as the original act directs; provided, that in no case
the tax so laid shall exceed fifty cents in the hundred pounds; and
in
case any of the owners of the real property in said village shall refuse
or neglect to pay the sums so charged by them by virtue of this
act, that it shall and may be lawful for the said commissioners, or
a majority of them, to cause the same to be collected as small debts
are collected out of court before a single justice of the peace; Provided
always, that notice in writing be made of the amount of said
debt, and left at the house or houses of the person or persons at least
three months before such demand be made. |
And lay a tax.
Proviso. |
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CHAP. LV.
An Act to provide for the Trial of Facts in the several Counties
of this
State, and to alter, change and abolish, all
such parts of the Constitution
and Form of Government as relate to the General
Court
and Court of Appeals. Lib. JG. No.
4, fol. 609. |
Passed Jan. 12, 1805. |
1. BE IT ENACTED, by the General Assembly
of Maryland, That
this state shall be divided into six judicial districts, in manner
and
form following, to wit: Saint-Mary's, Charles and Prince-George's
counties, shall be the first district; Cecil, Kent, Queen-Anne's and
Talbot counties, shall be the second district; Calvert, Anne-Arundel
and Montgomery counties, shall be the third district; Caroline,
Dorchester, Somerset and Worcester counties, shall be the fourth
district; Frederick, Washington and Allegany counties, shall be
the fifth district; Baltimore and Harford counties, shall be the sixth
district; and there shall be appointed, for each of the said judicial
districts, three persons of integrity and sound legal knowledge, residents
of the state of Maryland, who shall, previous to and during
their acting as judges, reside in the district for which they shall
respectively
be appointed, one of who shall be styled in the commission
Chief Judge, and the other two Associate Judges, of the district
for which they shall be appointed; and the chief judge, together
with the two associate judges, shall compose the county courts
in each respective district; and each judge shall hold his commission
during good behaviour, removable for misbehaviour on conviction
in a court of law, or shall be removed by the governor, upon the address |
State divided into
districts—Judges
to be appointed. |
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