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CHAP. 101. |
LAWS OF MARYLAND.
in the mouth of Morgan's creek, to be drawn up and taken out of
said river, and if any person or persons shall hereafter fix, or set
with stakes or poles, any gill net or seine, in Chester river as
aforesaid, and shall omit or neglect to draw up, or have the same
drawn up and take out of the said river, on or before the twentieth
day of June thereafter, he or they shall forfeit and pay a sum
not exceeding two dollars for every such offence, to be recovered by
presentment or indictment in Kent or Queen-Anne's county court,
in which of said counties the party may reside. |
Annual levy for
said town to be
paid to commissioners. |
13. AND BE IT ENACTED, That the money annually
levied by
the levy court of Kent county for the purpose of repairing and
keeping in repair the streets, lanes and alleys, in said town, shall
be paid to the commissioners of said town, or to their order, by
the collector of Kent county, and shall be expended by the said
commissioners in repairing and keeping the said streets, lanes and
alleys, in said town, in repair; and the said levy court shall, at the
time of laying their next levy for Kent county, levy on the assessable
property of said county a sum, not exceeding one hundred and
fifty dollars, which said sum, when collected, shall be paid to the
said commissioners, or to their order, and by them laid out in the
purchase of hay-scales and weights, and having the same erected
and fixed up on the public ground near the market-house in said
town, and in the purchase of ten fire buckets, to be deposited in
the court house; and the said commissioners shall appoint a fit and
proper person weigher of said town, whose duty it shall be at all
times to attend to and take care of said scales and weights, and to
weigh all hay, corn, fodder, or other article of provender, brought
into the said town for sale, and to give a certificate or certificates
of the weight thereof, under the penalty of five dollars, and any
person selling, or offering for sale, by himself, servant or slave,
any of the said articles in the said town, without such certificate
of the weight thereof, under the penalty of five dollars, and any
person selling, or offering for sale, by himself, servant or slave,
any of the said articles in the said town, without such certificate,
shall forfeit and pay a sum not exceeding sixty-seven cents for
every such offence; and the collector's bond of Kent county shall be
liable for, and may be sued for, the recovery of any money levied
under and in virtue of this act; and the commissioners of Chester-town
shall allow to the said weigher such compensation as they
shall think reasonable. |
Wood-corders to
be appointed, &c. |
14. AND BE IT ENACTED, That the commissioners
of said town
shall have full power and authority, and they are hereby authorised
and empowered to appoint, and at their pleasure dismiss, a
wood corder or wood corders of said town, to regulate the cording
of wood therein, to ascertain and fix the prices for cording the
same, and to make such by-laws and regulations upon the subject
as they shall think right and proper. |
Owners of houses
to furnish themselves
with buckets,
&c. |
15. AND BE IT ENACTED, That the owner or owners
of every
house in Chester-town, or its precincts, of the description herein
after mentioned, shall furnish the same with a good jack leathern
bucket or buckets, having the initials of the owner's name marked
thereon with oil colours, according to the valuation of houses,
as shall be fixed by the assessment to be made in virtue of this act;
that is to say, all houses, the valuation of which shall be seventy-five
pounds, and not exceeding one hundred and fifty pounds, shall
be furnished with one bucket, all houses, the valuation of which
shall be above one hundred and fifty pounds, and not exceeding |
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