1774 ARTICLE 7.

ested; and copies of all ordinances shall be signed by the mayor and set
up in the most public places of said town, that they may be generally
known.

P. L. L., 1888, Art. 7, sec. 72. 1872, ch. 96.

166. All officers of said corporation, except the Mayor, before they
enter upon the duties of their respective offices, shall make oath before
the mayor or a justice of the peace for Carroll County, that they will
act faithfully, without partiality or prejudice, in all things appertaining
to their respective offices; the mayor shall qualify by taking and sub-
scribing said oath before the clerk of the circuit court, or before one of
his sworn deputies; and a failure to qualify within two weeks after his
election, shall be deemed a refusal, on the part of the party failing, to
accept the office to which he has been elected, in which case it shall be
the duty of any justice of the peace residing within said corporation,
at the request of five taxable citizens therein, to appoint the judges, who
shall give legal notice of the time and place of holding another election
for mayor and common council, and so, from time to time, whenever such
vacancy may occur.

P. L. L., 1888, Art. 7, sec. 73. 1872, ch. 96. 1890, ch. 105. 1896, ch. 132.

1902, ch. 286, sec. 73. 1908, ch. 262 (p. 699). 1914, ch. 628.

1916, ch. 88. 1920, ch. 156.

167. All property, whether real, personal or mixed, within said cor-
porate limits, except that occupied as churches, schools and the property
owned by Lebanon Lodge, No. 175, A. F. & A. M., and the property
owned by Daniel and Jacob Lodge, No. 23, I. O. O. F., shall be subject
to such taxes and charges as may be deemed necessary by said Mayor
and Common Council, to support and maintain the expenses which may
be at any time incurred in the improvement and management of said
town, and for other corporate purposes, not exceeding fifty cents on the
hundred dollars of the assessed value of all property within the corpo-
rate limits of said town, now liable to assessment and taxation for State
and county taxation under the laws of this State, except as above exempt.

1896, ch. 132, sec. 73A. 1902, ch. 286, sec. 73A.

168. The said Mayor and Common Council are hereby authorized and
empowered to levy and collect each and every year as they, in their dis-
cretion, may deem necessary, a special tax, not exceeding five cents on
every one hundred dollars' worth of the taxable property of all kinds
and descriptions liable to assessment and taxation within the corporate
limits of the town of Manchester, and the proceeds of such tax shall be
used and applied by said Mayor and Common Council for the sole pur-
pose of improving, grading, paving, macadamizing and maintaining the
streets, roads, lanes and alleys within the corporate limits of said town
of Manchester; said special tax to be levied and collected at the time and
in the same manner as other taxes are levied and collected by the Mayor
and Common Council of Manchester.