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ROBERT WRIGHT, ESQUIRE, GOVERNOR.
their ordinances and regulations; and the supervisor or superintendant
whom they have employed, or shall hereafter employ, shall be
compellable to clear, repair and improve, the said streets and alleys,
to be so laid out in the said parcel of land, as well as the
streets, lanes and alleys, of the town, under such reasonable penalties
as the said commissioners shall think proper to impose; and the
justices of the levy court, in the execution of the law relating to the
public roads in Talbot county, shall have or exercise no jurisdiction
or control over any of the streets, lanes or alleys, of the said town. |
1806.
CHAP. 63. |
7. AND, whereas it is also represented by
the said memorial, that
the peace and security of the said town would be better promoted,
and certain inconveniencies more fully remedied, by enlarging the
powers of the said commissioners; BE IT ENACTED, That the said
commissioners shall have power and authority, from time to time,
to cause to be enrolled the white male inhabitants of the said town
above the age of eighteen years, and to arrange them into convenient
companies or classes, and to require their services in fair and
equal rotation, whenever a majority of the voters of the said town,
on being duly notified and assembled, shall determine that there exists
an occasion for their attendance as a guard or patrol, and to
enforce their attendance and duty under such reasonable regulations
and penalties as the said commissioners shall think expedient to
ordain. |
White male inhabitants
to be classed
and called out,
when necessary,
as a guard or patrol. |
8. AND BE IT ENACTED, That the said commissioners
shall also
have power and authority to increase the salary of the bailiff of the
said town, and to allow him a compensation for his services, not
exceeding the rate of one hundred dollars by the year. |
Salary of bailiff
may be increased. |
9. AND BE IT ENACTED, That for the purpose
of restraining
the evils and inconveniencies arising from the number of useless
dogs in the said town, the said commissioners shall also have power
and authority to increase the taxes authorised to be assessed and
levied upon the owners and keepers thereof, and annually to levy
and collect, from the said owners and keepers, the sum of one dollar
for every dog, and of one dollar and fifty cents for every bitch,
owner, kept or harboured in the said town, in such manner as the
said commissioners have heretofore thought, or may think it necessary
to ordain, for levying and collecting the said taxes. |
Tax on dogs may
also be increased. |
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CHAP. LXIV.
An Act authorising the Commissioners of Charles-Town, in Cecil
County, to purchase a Lot of Ground for the purpose
therein mentioned.
Lib. TH. No. 1, fol. 261. |
Passed Jan. 4, 1807. |
WHEREAS the commissioners and inhabitants of Charles-town,
in Cecil county, have, by their petition to his general assembly,
set forth, that the said commissioners have lately contracted to expend
the sum of one thousand dollars for the erection of a house of
religious worship for the use of the inhabitants of said town,
and that the monies designed for that purpose have arisen
from the rents of the public property of said town: And whereas
doubts are entertained as to the power of the said commissioners to
make an appropriation of said monies to that object, and the said
commissioners and inhabitants have prayed that a law may pass
expressly granting such power; and said petition being deemed reasonable,
therefore, |
Preamble. |
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