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ART. 15.] CHESTERTOWN. 1461
1882, ch. 386. 1888, ch. 227.
71. The county commissioners of Kent county shall annually,
on or before the first day of January, pay over to the commis-
sioners of Chestertown, that proportion of the entire county levy
for roads and bridges which the total property assessed within the
limits of Chestertown bears to the whole amount of assessed
property in Kent county, so that the commissioners of Chester-
town may receive and disburse the amount levied upon the
property within the limits of Chestertown for roads and bridges
by said county commissioners of Kent county.
P. L. L., (1860,) art. 14, sec. 61.
72. Between the first day of April and first day of May, the
said commissioners shall annually publish at the court-house, and
in a newspaper published in Kent county, if there be one
published, an abstract showing the amount of taxes levied for
the previous year up to the period of publication, including all
taxes levied on the property in said town, all money collected for
license and due for the same, all fines, and the total income from
every source, and also their expenditures for the year, stating
each class of expenditure and the balance due to or from the said
commissioners.
Ibid. sec. 62.
73. If they shall refuse or neglect to comply with the direc-
tions of the preceding section, they shall be individually liable to
presentment and fine not exceeding ten dollars, for the use of the
public schools in said town.
Ibid. Bee. 63.
74. No part of the property of Washington college shall be
liable to assessment and tax by the said commissioners, except
that which has been leased and has buildings thereon.
Ibid. sec. 66.
75. The market-house in said town and the grounds thereunto
appertaining shall be vested in said commissioners, who may keep
the same in repair and make such rules for the regulation of the
market there to be held, and the time of holding the same, as.
they may deem proper, not inconsistent with law.
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