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WILLIAM PACA, Esq; Governor.
magistrate, in the same manner as debts not exceeding five pounds, any
law to
the contrary notwithstanding. |
1782.
CHAP.
XVII. |
XIII. And be
it enacted, That if any person or persons shall, after the publication
of this act, cast or throw down, out of any cart, waggon or other carriage,
any rubbish, dirt or earth, in any public street, lane or alley, of the
town
of Baltimore, save only in such parts and places as shall be appointed
and agreed
on by the said special commissioners, every such offender shall forfeit
and pay, for
every such offence, the sum of five shillings, and pay the costs of removing
the
same; and if any person or persons, save the said special commissioners,
shall
hereafter remove or pull down any bar, chain, rope or fence, which the
said
special commissioners shall hereafter cause to be set up, in or across
the said streets,
lanes or alleys, for the preservation of the pavement then newly made,
every such
person who shall so offend shall forfeit and pay the sum of three pounds
for every
such offence. |
Penalty for
throwing
down rubbish,
&c. |
XIV. And be
it enacted, That if any distiller, soap-boiler or tallow-chandler,
within the said town, shall discharge any foul or nauseous liquor, from
any
still-house or work-shop, so that such liquor shall pass into or along
any of the
streets, lanes and alleys, of said town; or if any soap-boiler or tallow-chandler
shall keep, collect or use, or cause to be kept, collected or used, in
any of the
built parts of the town, any stale, putrid, or stinking fat, grease, or
other offensive
matter; or if any butcher shall keep at or near his slaughter-house any
garbage or filth whatsoever, so as to annoy any neighbour, or any person
whatsoever,
he, she or they, being thereof convicted before any justice of the
peace
of the said town, shall forfeit and pay, for every such offence, the sum
of thirty-five
shillings. |
On distillers,
&c. discharging
nauseous
liquors, &c. |
XV. And be it
enacted, That if any person or persons shall, after the publication
hereof, cast, carry, draw out or lay, any dead horse or other dead carcase,
or any excrement of filth from vaults, privies, or necessary houses, and
shall leave
such carcase, carrion or filth, without burying the same a sufficient depth
in the
ground, on any part of the commons of said town, on or near any of the
streets,
lanes, alleys or highways, within the said town, or district adjoining
the town,
every person or persons so offending, and convicted thereof before any
justice of
the peace, shall forfeit and pay, for every such offence, the sum of thirty
shillings. |
On persons
laying dead
carcases on
commons,
&c. |
XVI. And be
it enacted, That if any person or persons shall, after the publication
hereof, or cast or throw any carrion or filth whatsoever, or other annoyance
or obstruction, into the river in said town, or into the bason, and
shall thereof
be convicted before any justice of the peace, every such offender shall,
for every
such offence, forfeit and pay a sum of money not exceeding forty shillings,
as the
said justice shall think reasonable. |
On throwing
filth into the
river, &c. |
XVII. And be
it enacted, That the said special commissioners, the better to
enable them to discharge the duties enjoined them by this act, shall choose
and
employ a fit and able person for their clerk, who shall make such entries
and
keep such accounts as he shall be directed to do by the special commissioners,
for
which he shall be allowed such a reasonable reward as the said special
commissioners
shall agree to, which shall, by an order from the said special commissioners,
be paid him by the treasurer. |
A clerk to be
appointed,
&c. |
XVIII. And be
it enacted, That the special commissioners have full power to
appoint a person or persons properly qualified to act as collector or collectors
of
the taxes before mentioned, who is to take instructions from the special
commissioners,
to return in a book the persons rated and the things assessed, to call
upon
the county commissioners of the tax to know the yearly valuation of property
within said town, and to regulate the tax upon every hundred pounds worth
of
property by said valuation. |
A collector,
&c. |
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