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Session Laws, 1910 Session
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SOMERSET COUNTY. 1101

agent under any ordinance passed under the provisions of this
section shall be finally ratified ten days' notice at least shall be
given in one newspaper published in said city of the time when
said assessment is to be finally ratified, and an opportunity
shall be afforded all persons interested therein to appear and
be heard. Any person interested feeling aggrieved by the pas-
sage of any ordinance or any assessment made in pursuance
thereof under the provisions of this section shall have the right
within ten days after the passage of an ordinance or final rati-
fication of any assessment of an appeal to the Circuit Court for
Somerset County.

90. No sidewalk, street or alley shall be graded or the grade
thereof changed or altered in any manner by anyone except on
a plan made by a competent surveyor and submitted to, and
approved by, said Mayor and Council. If any person shall
change the grade of any sidewalk, street, or alley as established,
or as it may be hereafter established, except as aforesaid, he
shall be deemed guilty of a misdemeanor, and on conviction
thereof shall be fined not less than five dollars and stand com-
mitted to the County Jail until the fine and costs are paid;
and, in addition thereto, shall pay all costs and expenses of re-
storing said sidewalk, street or alley to its original grade.

91. The year for improving and repairing the streets, lanes,
alleys and thoroughfares of said city under this section shall be
reckoned from the first day of June, inclusive, in one year to
the first day of June in the next year; every able-bodied male
person between the ages of twenty-one and sixty years who has
resided in said city for four months shall be bound to work on
said streets, lanes, alleys and thoroughfares for one day in each
and every year as the year is herein defined, and if any person
who is liable to render such service fails to attend as directed
on notice from the Chief of Police, or who shall appear and fail
or refuse to work and render proper service as by the person or
persons supervising the work he is required and instructed to
do, he shall be guilty of a misdemeanor, and on conviction
thereof before a justice of the peace of Somerset County or in
the Circuit Court for Somerset County, he shall be fined one
dollar, and shall be adjudged to pay fine and costs and stand
committed until fine and costs are paid; at or about the first
day of January in each year, beginning with the year 1911, the
clerk of the Council, with the Mayor and Council, the Chief of
Police and other police, shall make out a list of all persons
who on the first day of the next June will be liable to render
service, and as soon as may reasonably be convenient this list
shall be delivered to the Chief of Police, and he shall call on
each person named therein to pay the sum of one dollar; each


 

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