The Democratic advocate. [volume] (Westminster, Md.) 1865-1972, 1872-05-25
public local Law.
Passed January Session, 1872,
PUBLISHED BY AUTHORITY.
CHAprER ia.

Bridge, IN Carroll county, are body cor.
porate by the name Of "Ihe Mayor and
Common Council of the town of Union
Bridge" and by that name shall be able
and capable 10 law to sue and be sued,
plead and be implicated in any court of law
or Of equity, and shall have perpetual sue
cession, aud may make all bylaws necessary
for the purposes herein mentioned.
Sec. ,. And be II enacted, That the cor.
porate bounds and limits Of the said town Of
Union Bridge shall embrace all the lots and
lands and premises in said town, which are
now built upon aud improved, and all lands
laid out into lots, for the purpose Of being
built thereupon, together with all such
contiguous grounds as the owner or owners
thereof may desire TO have embraced within
the same. And the first elected Mayor and
common council shall cause a survey and
descriptive plat thereof to be made as soon
as convenient after their election, and shall
enter said description and plat upon the
record OF their proceedings, and also cause
the same 10 be recorded in the office of the
Jerk OF the Circuit Court for Carroll county,
and the said descriptive plat shall thereupon
constitute tho boundaries and limits Of the
said town pronided, however, that for all
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Common Council shall have and may exer.
else full authority and control for one half
mile in every direction beyond tho bounds
and limits aforesaid.
Sec. 3. ARd be IL enacted, That all per
sons who have resided in the said town Of
Union Bridge for six months, and who are
qualified to vote for Delegates to the Gen.
eral Assembly, and all other persons who
may hold real estate in said town Of the
value Of Eve hundred dollars or more, shall,
on the first Monday in April, eighteen
hundred and seventy two, aud on the same
day and month in each and every year
thereafter, elect by ballot one person for
Mayor, and four persons four common
councilmen, all ofwhom shall have resided in
the said town oneyear previous TO the day Of
the election, and who shall each be the owner
in his own right Of real or personal estate
therein assessed at not less than FIVE hun.
bred dollars, and the said officers shall be
known as The Mayor aid Common Coun.
ell of the town of Union Bridge.
Sec. 1. Aad be IL enacted, That Reuben
Sayler, Jonus X. Nonemaker and Jesse
Andrews, be and they are hereby appointed
judges OF election, to hold the first election
under this Act, and who shall give at least
five days notice, by posting no. less than
three written or printed notices in conspic
nous public places in said town, Of tho
time and place at which the said election
shall be held, aud the said judges of cleo.
ton, before opening the polls, shall take
an oath or affirmation before some Justice
Of the Peace Of the said county, TO permit
every qualified voter as aforesaid 10 vote
and none other, and a majority Of the said
three judges shall have power to do oil
things named under this section, in case
one of them dies or refuses to act, and the
said judges shall keep the polls open at
least three consecutive hours, and shall
record the names Of the voters, and after
the closing Of the polls shall count the bal
lots and announce the result, and make and
sign certificate thereof, to be filed among
the records Of the said corporation AMI
the Mayor and councilmen then elected
shall, us soon thereafter as convenient,
qualify and serve until the first Monday in
April, eighteen hundred and seventy three.
and until their successors shall be elected
and qualified, aud the Mayor and council
men so elected shall be qualified in aecor.
dance With article sixty eight Of the code of
Public General Laws; and failure to
qualify, within fifteen days after their elec.
ton, shall be deemed refusal on the part
OF the party so ialling, to accept the Office
TO which he has been elected.
Sec. 3. Ind be Il enacted. That if the
Mayor or any member of the common
council shall die, resign, remove from
said town, or from any cause shall be dis.
qualified during the year for which they
have been elected, the common council NAV
elect Mayor, lad interim" from their
own number, for the balance Of the term ;
or the Mayor aud remaining members Of
the common council may elect one or more
councilmen to fill the vacancy for the re.
mainder Of the term.
Sec. 6. Aad be il enacted, That all future
elections shall be held and conducted as
shall be from time to time directed By the
lawsand ordinances of the said corporation,
and not inconsistent with the provisions Of
this Act.
Sec. I. And be it enacted, That the
Mayor and common council shall NEE. ut
some convenient place in said town At least
once in every three months, or oflener, if
they shall deem it necessary, and the Mayor
shall preside at all meetings Of the common
council, aud have the same power Of voting
and taking part in all acts and deliberations
OF the common council as any member
thereof.
Sec. s. And be it enacted, That the May.
or and common council, or majority of
them, shall have power to make all such by.
laws, rules, regulations and ordances, the
same not being inconsistent with the laws
and constitution of this State, as from time
to time they may deem wise, equitable aud
expedient for the comfort, health, convent.
ence and propriety Of the said town and its
inhabitants, and for the removal and pre-.
veution of all nuisances, the preservation
of health, and the suppression of vice and
immortality in the said town.
Sec. 9. And be it enacted, That the Mayor
and common council shall appoint and
qualify clerk, being one of their own
number, or otherwise, who shall keep &c
curate minutes Of their proceedings in a
well bound book, and all ordinances passed
by the said Mayor and council, aud intend.
ed 10 take effect and operate as Local Laws
IN and for said town, shall be signed BY the
Mayor and atiested by the clerk, and the
said book should, at any time, be subject to
inspection by any person Interested therein,
and copies Of all ordinances, as aforesaid,
signed by the Mayor and attested by the
clerk, shall be posted up in not less than
two public places in the SAID town before
said ordinances shall 90 into effect and be
in force.
Sec. 10. And be il enacted, That all pro.
perty, real aud personal, within tho corpo.
rate limits Of said town, except such as may
be occupied for churches and schools, shall
be subject to such taxes and charges as
may be deemed necessary by the Mayor and
common council, to support, maintain and
defray the costs, charges and expenses
whicd may at any tire be incurred in the
improvement of the said town, or for other
corporate purposes not exceeding twenty.
five cents in every hundred dollars of the
assessed value Of all houses and lots front
ing on streets or all les, and all vacant lots
and farming lands not contiguous to streets
or alleys, shall be taxed at less rate, in
the discretion of the Mayor and common
council branded thnt tho yaneral assoss