EDWIN WARFIELD, ESQ., GOVERNOR.

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cuit Court of Garrett County. And the qualified voters of any

of said elections shall be bona fide male residents; shall be

twenty-one years of age or over, of said town of Friendsville,

who have been residents of the State for the period of one

year and of said town for the period of six months continuously

next before the date of any such election ; and that no one shall

be eligible for the office of Mayor or Councilman of sa'id town

unless he shall be a real estate owner or husband of a bona

fide real estate owner in the said town. And the Mayor shall

have been a resident of said town for three years previous

Qualifications,

to his election, and the Councilmen shall have been residents

of said town two years prior to their election.

111D. The said Mayor and Council may from time to time

cause an assessment to be made of all the property liable to the

Liability of
property in

State and county taxes within the corporate limits, and to levy

town for

a tax thereon not exceeding twenty-five cents on one hundred

taxes.

dollars in any one year, and that said property shall be assessed

at its actual cash value, and that the land included within the

above named corporate limits, which have not been laid out as

town lots or as town property shall be exempt from taxation,

with the exception of the buildings and personal effects thereon.

And the said Council may appoint an assessor and collector of

taxes and fix his salary for compensation, and provide for a

method of collecting the taxes by ordinance, and also the method

of making assessments ;and any person aggrieved by any assess-

ment made under this provision shall have the right of an

appeal to the said Mayor and Council of said town of Friends-

ville.

111E. It shall be the duty of the said Mayor of the said town

to see that the ordinances of the town are duly and faithfully

Duty of the

executed, and he shall appoint, subject to the confirmation of

Mayor.

the Council, all such persons as agents and servants of said cor-

poration as may be necessary to carry out the objects and pur-

poses of the corporation, and enforce the ordinances to be

passed thereby.

111F. The said Council shall have power to pass all such

ordinances not contrary to the Constitution and laws of this

Power of the
Council.

State as it may deem necessary for the good government of

the town, for the protection and preservation of the town's

property, rights and privileges ; for the preservation of the

peace and good order and securing persons and property from

violence, danger and destruction ; for the protection of the

health, comfort and convenience of the citizens of Friendsville

and visitors thereto, or sojourners therein ; for providing