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ROBERT BOWIE, ESQUIRE, GOVERNOR.
or affirmation, administered, duly and faithfully to perform their
duty as judges of the election; which judges shall appoint a clerk,
whose duty it shall be to take down the name of each voter, and
the person or persons he may vote for as commissioners or bailiff;
and the commissioners, at the closing of the polls, shall count up
the votes given to each respective candidate, and publicly declare
the five persons who have the most votes as commissioners, and
the person who has the most votes as bailiff, and the same to cause
to be entered on the records of the clerk of the commissioners. |
1804.
CHAP. 82. |
7. AND BE IT ENACTED, That in case of vacancy
in the office
of commissioner, the commissioners, or a majority of them, may
fill up such vacancy, by appointing some male inhabitant of the
said town, (qualified as aforesaid,) to the said vacancy; and the
commissioners aforesaid shall have power to remove, or cause to
be removed, all nuisances in the public squares, streets, lanes,
ways and alleys, which may exist to the annoyance or inconvenience
of the inhabitants of said town, or other persons; and the
said commissioners as aforesaid shall meet on the first Monday in
February next, and on the first Monday in every second month
thereafter, (or at such other times as they may think proper and
necessary, for the discharge of their duties as commissioners of
said town,) who shall receive a per diem for their services, not
exceeding
one dollar, which money, as well as all other monies to defray
expenses incurred under this act, shall be paid out of the fines
and forfeitures incurred under this act, or if such fund should be
insufficient, by a levy on said town, as the commissioners may
think most adviseable. |
How vacancies are
to be filled. |
8. AND BE IT ENACTED, That the bailiff of
said town, before he
acts as such, shall take an oath, or affirmation, (to be administered
by any one of the commissioners,) faithfully to execute the duties
of his office, according to his best skill and judgment; and the duties
of the said bailiff shall be, to attend the meetings of the said
commissioners, to perform such services for more effectually accomplishing
the objects of this act as shall be directed by said commissioners,
to prevent the tumultuous and irregular meetings of
negroes, slaves, and other dissolute and disorderly persons, within
the limits of said town, or, if so assembled, to disperse them by
reasonable and lawful means, and to punish, with moderate correction,
under such rules and regulations as shall be prescribed by the
said commissioners, all such negro or other slaves as shall be found
strolling or wandering about the streets in the night-time, or frequenting
the houses of other persons in said town, without the consent
of their masters, mistresses or overseers. |
Bailiff to take an
oath—his duties. |
9. AND BE IT ENACTED, That it shall not be
lawful for any person
or persons to keep or raise any geese or swine within the limits
of the said town, except in pens or other enclosures; and if any
geese or swine shall be found going at large within the said town,
(unless they be such straying geese or swine as may belong to any
person or persons not residing within the distance of two miles
therefrom,) it shall be lawful for the bailiff of the said town, upon
the information of any of the inhabitants thereof, or upon his own
view, to distrain and seize all and every such geese and swine, and
to secure the same in some common pound, to be provided by the
said commissioners for that purpose; and all and every such geese |
No geese or swine
to be raised in
town except in enclosures. |
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