| 1782.
CHAP.
XVII.
Scavengers to
be employed,
&c. |
LAWS of MARYLAND.
IX. And be it
enacted, That the said special commissioners, from time to
time, shall employ proper and capable persons to clean the cart-way of
the said
streets, lanes and alleys, which are or may be paved, and to remove and
carry
off from thence all mud, dirt, and other filth, there found, that shall
or may
incommode the inhabitants, in such manner and form, and at such time or
times,
as the said special commissioners shall direct and appoint, which said
persons, so
agreed with and employed, shall take upon themselves the office and duty
of scavengers,
pursuant to their respective agreements, under the penalty of five pounds
for every neglect or refusal; and if any such scavenger shall neglect or
refuse to
carry off and remove all and every part of the mud, mire, dirt, and other
filth,
found in the streets, lanes, and alleys aforesaid, agreeable to his contract
with
said special commissioners, he shall forfeit and pay any sum not exceeding
twenty-five
shillings, for every such offence. |
Inhabitants to
remove dirt,
&c. |
X. And be it
enacted, That the inhabitants and occupiers of the houses and
lots, and the sextons, porters, or other keepers of churches, meeting-houses,
or other public buildings or burying-grounds, fronting the paved streets,
lanes
and alleys, within the said town, shall rake and sweep into the cart-way
the dirt,
soil, and other filth, to be found on the brick pavements or foot-way before
their
respective houses, lots, dwellings, or public buildings, or cause the same
to be
done, once at least in every week, that is to say, on every Friday, when
the
snow or ice on the said pavements or foot-way does not prevent, that it
may be removed by the said scavengers on the same day or the day following,
under the penalty of any sum not exceeding five shillings for every neglect
or
refusal. |
Shavings, &c.
not to be laid
on pavements,
&c. |
XI. And be it
enacted, That no person or persons whatsoever shall cast or lay,
or cause to be cast or laid, any shavings, ashes, dung, or other filth
or annoyance,
on any pavements within the said town, under the penalty of any sum not
exceeding
twenty shillings for every such offence; but every such person or persons,
having such shavings, ashes, dung, or other filth, shall keep the same
in some
other place, until the scavenger shall attend with his cart to carry off
the same,
which he is hereby enjoined to do once in every week at least, if required,
at the
door of every such person, under the penalty of five shillings for every
neglect or
refusal; provided always, that every such person, having such mud, dung,
ashes,
or other filth, so to be carried off, shall pay to ever such scavenger,
for all such
filth, and no other, as shall be occasioned by, or arise from, his particular
trade,
business or occupation, and is not incident to common housekeeping, at
such rate
as shall be from time to time settled and ascertained by the special commissioners,
unless he, she or they, shall choose to carry off the same, at his, her,
or their
own expence, in another manner. |
Tenant to pay
rate for owner,
&c. |
XII. And be
it enacted, That if the owner of any house or lot which shall
be rated and assessed by virtue of this act, or before whose front the
foot pavement
shall be hereafter directed to be paved, amended or repaired, by the said
special commissioners, shall not reside within the town, the tenant or
person
occupying the same, shall pay his the said owner's rate and assessment,
and pave
and repair the foot-way before the front of his possession; and the taxes
paid in
pursuance of this act, and the money expended by such tenant in paving
and
repairing the foot-way aforesaid, in obedience to the order of special
commissioners,
shall be allowed by the owner, and defalked by the tenant out of the rent
then due, or thereafter to become due; and if any owner of any house and
lot,
before whose front the cart-way shall be paved in pursuance of this act,
or if any
tenant of any such house and lot, shall refuse and neglect to pave and
repair the
foot-way agreeable to the direction and order aforesaid, every such owner,
if a
resident within the said town, and every such tenant of such non-resident
owner,
shall forfeit and pay, for every foot fronting his possession so neglected
to be paved,
the sum of one shilling; and that the said special commissioners shall
make,
amend and repair the same, out of the public monies by this act directed
to be
raised, and shall recover the same of such resident owner, or tenant of
such non-resident
owner respectively, as the case may require, in a summary way, before a |
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