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CHAP.
XXXVI. |
LAWS of MARYLAND.
the different lots, where the commissioners shall direct such paving
and posting
to be done, according to their respective possessions binding on the
streets. |
Tenants in
certain cases
to cause posting,
&c. to be
done, &c. |
VI. And be it
enacted, That if the owner or owners of any house or lot, or
part of a lot, where such paving and posting shall be directed by virtue
of this
act to be posted, paved, amended or repaired, shall not reside within the
town,
the tenant or person occupying the same, or who shall have the care or
charge
thereof, shall cause the said paving and posting to be done before the
front of
such possession, and the money expended by such tenant or person having
the
charge of such property in paving, posting and repairing, the footway
aforesaid,
in obedience to the orders of the commissioners as aforesaid, shall be
allowed by
the owner, and deducted by the tenant out of the rent then due, or thereafter
to
become due; and if any owner or tenant of any house or lot, or part of
a lot,
or the person having the care of the same, shall refuse or neglect to post,
pave,
amend or repair such footway, according to the order and direction
as aforesaid,
it shall and may be lawful for the said commissioners, or a majority of
them, and
they are hereby directed, to contract and agree with some person or persons,
on
reasonable terms, to post, pave, amend or repair, such footway, and shall
charge
the expence thereof to the owner or owners in front of whose property such
pavement may be done, and shall recover the same by execution on such property
with costs. |
Commissioners
to employ
carts, &c. |
VII. And be
it enacted, That the said commissioners, or a majority of them,
shall have full power to employ, agree with, and hire carts, waggons and
labourers,
and shall proceed to raise, lower and level, any of the streets, or otherwise
as the said commissioners may think proper, in the said town, beginning
with market-street, and shall stone or gravel them where necessary,
and shall
proceed to lay an equal tax on the property in said town, not exceeding
two shillings
and six-pence current money in the hundred pound worth of property,
to
defray the expences thereof, which said tax shall be collected and paid
to the said
commissioners, or a majority of them, by a collector of their appointment,
who
shall have the same power to distrain therefor as the collector of the
public and
county assessment have to distrain for the same, in the following manner,
to wit,
one half thereof on the first day of May, and the remainder on the first
day of
September annually; and the said collector, for the faithful performance
of his duty,
shall be allowed a sum not exceeding four per cent. commission for
collection. |
And settle
accounts annually,
&c. |
VIII. And be
it enacted, That the said commissioners shall settle their accounts
with the justices of Frederick county, at November court, annually,
during the continuance of this act. |
Persons intending
to
build to inform
the commissioners
thereof, &c. |
IX. And be it
enacted, That if any person shall be about to erect, or carry
on any building on any of the streets in Frederick-town aforesaid, he shall,
before
he proceeds to erect the same, inform the said commissioners, or a
majority
of them, at what time he intends to begin to erect the same, and the said
commissioners,
or a majority of them, are hereby required to attend and direct the
range of such building with the street, the projection of the porches
and cellar-doors;
and any person proceeding to erect any building, fronting any of the said
streets, without giving notice as aforesaid, and contrary to the order
and direction
of the said commissioners, the same shall be deemed a nuisance. |
Defendants
may plead the
general issue,
&c. |
X. And be it
enacted, That if any person shall be sued or impleaded, for performing
or doing any thing by this act required, the defendant may plead the
general issue, and give this act and the special matter in evidence. |
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