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LAWS OF MARYLAND.

CHAP. 477.

party whose place ehall thus have become vacant. The Mayor
and Councilmen, during their official term, shall hold no other
corporation office, nor be interested in any contract to which the
said corporation is a party, or where the money for said con-
tract is to be paid out of the corporation treasury.

Authority to
pass
ordinances
for
conducting
elections.

Section 111B. And be it further enacted, That the Mayor
and Council herein named ehall have power to pass all such
ordinances for conducting the elections herein provided for, or
which may be hereafter authorized to be held, and shall make
return thereof to the clerk of the Circuit Court for Garrett
county, and the qualified voters at any of said elections shall
be the bona fide male residents, above the age of twenty-one
years, of said town of Friendsville, who have been residents
of said town for a period of at least one year continuously next
before the date of any such election, and no one shall be eligible
for the office of Mayor or Councilman of eaid town unless he
shall be a real estate owner or the husband of a bona fide real
estate owner in said town, and the Mayor shall have been a
resident of said town for three j'ears previous to his election,
and the Councilmen shall have been residents of said town for
two years prior to their election.

Assessment
of property
to be made.

Section 111 C. And be it further enacted, That the said
Mayor and Council may from time to time cause an assess-
ment to be made of all the property liable to State and county
taxes within the corporate limits and to levy a tax thereon not
exceeding twenty-five cents on the one hundred dollars in any
one year, and said property shall be assessed at its actual cash
value, and that the lands included within the above named
corporate limits which have not been laid out as town lots
or ae 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 or compensation, and provide for a method
of collecting the taxes by ordinances 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.

Ordinances
to be duly
and
faithfully
executed, etc

Section 111D. And be it further enacted, That it shall
be the duty of the Mayor of said town to see that the ordi-
nances of the town are duly and faithfully executed, and he
'shall appoint, subject to the confirmation of the Council, all
such persons as agents and servants of said corporation as may
be necessary to carry out the objects and purposes of the
incorporation and eniorce the ordinances to be passed thereby.