EDWIN WARFIELD, ESQ., GOVERNOR.

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within sixty days after written notice thereof by personal ser-

vice on such owner or owners, or by mailing such notice to the

last known postoffice address of such owner or owners, then

the said Mayor and City Council have the power and authority

to proceed to make such improvements or repairs and assess

the costs thereof to the owner or owners of the abutting

property in proportion to the frontage of such property, such

assessment to be collected as municipal taxes are. collected by

law in said city; and the said Mayor and City Council are,

To employ

hereby given full power and authority to appoint, employ and

labor.

compensate all officers, agents, servants or employes that may,

in the exercise of their discretion, seem necessary or advisable

to carry into effect the provisions of this and the preceding or

any other section of the charter of said Ocean City.

8C. The Mayor and City Council of Ocean City shall have

the power and authority to provide for the. entering into and:

Rights given to

examination of all dwelling lots, yards, enclosures and build-

enter yards,
buildings,

ings to ascertain their condition for health, cleanliness and

etc., for the

safety, for the taking down and removing of buildings, walls,

health of the
people.

structures or superstructures which may become dangerous,

or to require owners to remove them or put them in a safe and

sound condition at their own expense; to regulate the build-

ing and maintenance of party walls, smoke flues, fireplaces,

chimneys, hot-air flues, smoke-stacks and stovepipes; to pro-

vide for and regulate the safe construction, inspection and re-

pairs of all private and public buildings within the city ; to reg-

ulate the height, construction and inspection of all new build-

ings hereafter erected in said city, and the inspection and re-

pairs of any buildings already erected.

8D. They may annually levy a tax for the expense of the:

Levying a tax

corporation upon the taxable property, real and personal, with-

on assessable
property.

in the town limits, except public and private securities and

book accounts; and the same shall be collected by a collector

appointed for the purpose, whose compensation for collecting

said taxes shall not exceed five per centum and who shall

give bond to such amount as they shall prescribe, with sureties

to be approved by them, and hold his office during the term of

two years, unless sooner removed by the Mayor; and the said

collector in collecting the said taxes shall have full power to

distrain for the same and proceed in such collection in the same

manner that the collectors of taxes for Worcester County

now do.

12. It shall be the duty of the Mayor and City Council of

Statement of

said Ocean City to cause to be published in a newspaper is-

expenditures
to be pub-

sued in Worcester County an itemized statement of the ex-

lished.