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WILLIAM PACA, Esq; Governor.
thereof before any justice of the peace, shall, for every such offence,
forfeit and
pay the sum of thirty shillings, and shall forthwith remove or cause the
said nuisance
to be removed. |
1782.
CHAP.
XVII. |
XLIX. Be it
enacted, That the owner or owners of any house within the
said town, having, at the publication hereof, any porch, cellar door, or
step, extending
into any street, lane or alley, beyond the limitation aforesaid, or having
fixed or fastened to such house any bulk, jut-window, or other incumbrance
whatsoever,
shall yearly and every year pay, to such person or persons as shall be
appointed
by the special commissioners to receive and collect the same, such sum
or
sums of money as the said special commissioners and the assessors of said
town
shall settle and assess, as a full compensation to the public, until such
porch, cellar
door, or step, to him, her or them, respectively belonging, shall be reduced
to the limits aforesaid, or till removed or taken away; and every owner
or owners
of any house or houses, whereunto any spout or gutter shall, at the time
of publication
hereof, be so fixed and placed, that the waters thereby discharged may
incommode
persons passing the said streets, lanes or alleys, shall and they are hereby
required, forthwith to remove, or effectually to alter or amend the same;
and the
said special commissioners are hereby further authorised and empowered,
to remove,
or cause to be removed, all manner of obstruction to the passage through
the said
streets, lanes and alleys, which they shall find remaining in the same
an unnecessary
length of time. |
If now made
to be paid for,
&c. |
L. And be it
enacted, That the special commissioners are hereby empowered
to license all public exhibitions within said town, and to direct their
treasurer to
receive the money fixed on by the said special commissioners for such licences,
and make out a licence under the common seal. |
Public exhibitions
to be
licensed, &c. |
LI. And be it
enacted, That should any person or persons, not authorised by
this act, exhibit any shew, play, or public entertainment, without a licence
first
obtained, he, she or they, shall forfeit a sum not exceeding twenty-five
pounds,
to be recovered as debts not exceeding five pounds. |
Penalty on
exhibiting
without licence,
&c. |
LII. And be
it enacted, That the special commissioners are hereby directed to
enter upon the paving of the whole, or such parts of the streets, lanes
and alleys,
of said town, as soon as may be after the publication hereof, as appear
to them
essential to the growth and prosperity of the said town. |
Streets to be
paved as soon
as may be,
&c. |
LIII. And be
it enacted, That the special commissioners are hereby empowered
to continue all or as many of the specific taxes above mentioned, as may
be
judged least injurious to the welfare of the town, and towards a permanent
fund
to keep in repair the streets, and for the purposes of this act. |
Specific taxes
may be continued,
&c. |
CHAP. XVIII.
A Supplement to the act to empower Thomas Contee to settle and collect
the
debts due to William Molleson, and William and Robert
Molleson, or either
of them, and to apply the same. PR. |
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CHAP. XIX.
An ACT for the relief of
the family of William Edmiston. PR. |
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CHAP. XX.
An ACT to make good the depreciation of pay to captain Philemon Griffith.
PR. |
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CHAP. XXI.
An ACT to make valid a deed of bargain and sale executed by Basil Burgess,
late of Anne-Arundel county, deceased, to Daniel Bowley,
of Baltimore
county. PR. |
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CHAP. XXII.
An ACT to ascertain the property of the citizens of this state carried
off or destroyed
by the enemy during the present war.
The tax commissioners in each county
were directed by this act, to appoint a person to make diligent
inquiry on this subject, either on the oath of the parties injured, or
of indifferent witnesses, and to make |
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