| 1791.
CHAP.
LVIII. |
LAWS of MARYLAND.
II. Be it enacted,
by the General Assembly of Maryland, That during the
continuance of the original act to which this is a supplement, it shall
be lawful
for the chief justice, or either of the associate justices, of any county
court in
this state, to grant licences to such persons as they shall think fit to
be ordinary
keepers, for keeping of ordinaries in such places, within the counties
where such
chief justice, or associate justices, respectively reside, for the
ease and convenience
of the inhabitants and travellers, as to them respectively shall seem proper;
which
licences shall continue in force until the end of the next county court
after the
same shall be granted, and for the taking of which the ordinary keepers
shall
respectively pay in proportion to the time between their taking thereof
and the
end of the next court aforesaid. |
Persons licensed
to recognise,
&c. |
III. And be
it enacted, That every person who applies for a licence under this
act shall enter into a recognizance before the justice who grants the said
licence,
with security, in the same sum, and in the same manner, and on the
same condition,
and shall be subject to the same regulations, orders, forfeitures and penalties,
to be recovered in the same manner, as are prescribed by the said original
act with respect to ordinary keepers licensed under the same. |
Passed December
26. |
CHAP. LIX.
An ACT supplementary to an act, entitled, An act for the more
effectual paving the streets of Baltimore-town, in Baltimore
county, and for other purposes. |
| Preamble. |
WHEREAS it is represented to this general assembly,
by the special
commissioners, and others, inhabitants of Baltimore-town, that the
taxes established by act of assembly, entitled, An act to amend and
alter sundry parts of an act of assembly passed at November session, seventeen
hundred and eighty-two, entitled, An act for the more effectual paving
the streets
of Baltimore-town, in Baltimore county, and for other purposes therein
mentioned,
are greatly inadequate to the object of the aforesaid act: And
whereas the
duties arising from the sales of goods by vendue, as imposed by an act
of November
session, seventeen hundred and eighty-four, did cease as a fund at
the end of
the session of seventeen hundred and eighty-nine: And whereas
the two shilling
and six-pence tax on every hundred pounds of assessed property in Baltimore-town,
as imposed by the act of seventeen hundred and eighty-two, did cease and
determine with the year seventeen hundred and eighty-nine, and the
remaining
taxes established by the said act of seventeen hundred and eighty-two,
are not
more than sufficient to keep the streets already paved in repair:
And whereas it
is further represented, that the said commissioners have experienced that
the tax
fixing the rate per foot at one price for streets or alleys of different
widths,
operates unequally and oppressively; which they pray may be remedied by
an
apportionment of the tax to their respective widths, |
A tax imposed
for every
street, &c. |
II. Be it enacted,
by the General Assembly of Maryland, That for every street
eighty-five feet wide or upwards, a tax not exceeding twelve shillings
and six-pence
per foot fronting on the said street, and for every street seventy-five
feet
wide, and less than eighty-five, a tax not exceeding eleven shilling and
three-pence
for every foot on said street, and for every street sixty feet wide, and
less
than seventy-five feet, a tax not exceeding ten shillings per foot
fronting on the
said street, and for every street forty feet wide, and less than sixty
feet, a tax not
exceeding eight shillings and four-pence per foot fronting on
the said street, and
for every street, lane or alley, of twenty-five feet, and less than forty
feet, a tax
not exceeding six shillings and three-pence per foot fronting on
the same, and for
every street, lane or alley, under twenty-five feet, a tax not exceeding
four
shillings per foot on every foot fronting the sam, is hereby laid
and imposed, and
shall and may be levied and collected by the commissioners aforesaid, in
the
manner and according to the act, entitled, An act for the more effectual
paving
the streets of Baltimore-town, in Baltimore county, and for other purposes,
passed November session, seventeen hundred and eighty-two. |
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