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CHAP.
XXIV. |
LAWS of MARYLAND.
and the money expended by such tenant or person having the charge of
such property,
in paving, posting and repairing, the footways aforesaid, in obedience
to
the order of the commissioners 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 tenant or owner of any house or lot, or part of a lot, or the
person having
the care thereof, shall refuse or neglect to post, pave, amend or repair,
such
footways, according to the order and direction as aforesaid, it shall
and may be
lawful for 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 footways, 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
improve them, as the said commissioners may think proper, in the said town,
and shall stone or gravel them where necessary, and shall proceed to lay
an equal
tax on all the taxable property of said town, not exceeding three shillings
current
money annually in the hundred pounds worth of property, to defray the expence
thereof, and for the purchasing a fire engine; which said tax shall be
collected
and paid to the said commissioners, or a majority of them, by their clerk,
who
shall have the same power to distrain therefor, as the collector of
the public and
county assessment have to distrain for the same, and all cost which shall
arise in
consequence of such distress, shall be applied to the use of the purposes
before
mentioned; and the said clerk shall, for the faithful performance of the
collection
receive an allowance, not exceeding four per cent. commission,
for collection. |
Determine
disputes, &c. |
VIII. And be
it enacted, That the said commissioners be fully empowered to
settle and determine all disputes which shall arise respecting the boundaries
of any
lot or lots in said town, and to ascertain and establish the same, which
determination
shall be final, unless controverted in a court of law within three years
thereafter;
and the said commissioners shall receive, for every such dispute so
determined,
the sum of ten shillings each, to be paid by the said parties contending;
and the said commissioners shall have full power to remove nuisances within
said town and the precincts thereof. |
And settle
their accounts
annually. |
IX. And be it
enacted, That the said commissioners shall settle their accounts
with the justices of the levy court of Washington county, on the fourth
Monday
of August annually, during the continuance of this act. |
Persons sued
may plead,
&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. |
Passed December
27. |
CHAP. XXV.
An ACT to empower the justices in Caroline county to levy a
sum of money, by an assessment of the property of said
county,
to erect a gaol at Denton, in said county, and for other
purposes
therein mentioned. |
Justices to assess
money,
&c. |
BE it enacted,
by the General Assembly of Maryland, That it shall and may
be lawful for the justices of Caroline county, and they are hereby authorised
and required, to assess and levy, at two equal assessments, in the years
seventeen hundred and ninety-two and seventeen hundred and ninety-three,
a sum
not exceeding six hundred pounds current money, together with the sheriff's
commission of six per cent. for collecting the same; which said
monies, so to be
assessed and levied, shall be collected by the said sheriff of Caroline
county for
the time being, from the inhabitants of said county, and others having
property
therein, in the same manner as other public levies and county assessments
are by
law collected. |
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