Montgomery County sentinel., 1888-04-27

hereafter passed to cause the water courses
drains or sewers to be paved, kept in repair
and cleansed /; to establish markets and t,
regulate the hours and limits thereof and
mode of dealing in relation thereto; to con
troll and protect the public grounds anC
property of the town; to establish nd regu
late station house or lookup for the tenn
porary confinement of violators of the awi
and ordinances Of the town, provided tina
the county Jail shall be used for such pur
poses until said Council shall deem it advisa-
BILE to establish and regulate said station
house or lookup; 10 levy tax and impose a
license upon dogs or other animals or fowls
running at large and 10 regulate and con
troll all offensive trades, manufactures and
traffic in offensive fertilizers or other com
modities aud to prohibit hog pens or slaugh
ter houses within the town limits. And for
the purpose of carrying out the foregoing
powers and for the preservation of the clean
liness, health, peace and good order Of the
community, and for the protection of the live:
and property OF the citizens, and to suppress
abate or discontinue, or cause to be sup
pressed, abated or discontinued, all nulsances
within the corporate limits OF said town, they
may pass all ordinances or bylaws from
time to time necessary. And to ensure The
observance of such ordinances, in addition to
the action of debt or such other civil reme-
recovery of the penalties thereurto affixed
they may affix thereto such reasonable fines,
not exceeding fifty dollars in any case, as TO
them may appear right, and in default OF the
payment of any fine imposed, they may pro-
vide for the Imprisonment OF the offender for
period not exceeding thirty days, o: until
the fine be paid
13. The Council may, whenever they think
the public interest requires 1t, cause an as
sessment to te made of all real and personal
property within the corporate limits OF said
tow n subject to assessment for county or State
taxes and they may prescribe the manner
in which such assessments shall be made, and
provide for adjusting all differences in rela-
tion to such assessment, and do all other
things necessary for making such assessment
provided, such assessment shall not exceed
the assessment for State and county purposes
and provided further, that no land included
within the corporate limits or corporate out
lines OF said town, except houses and gar
dens, shall be taxed for corporation purposes
so long as said land shall be used for agricul-
tural purposes. And the Council may levy
II tax on the assessable property within the
corporate limits Of said town, not exceeding
in any one year twenty cents in the hundred
dollars worth oil assessable property.
IA. Any person may appeal from the valu-
alton made by the assessor to the Council at
their next regular or quarterly meeting, and
said Council shall remain in session IA long
MS may be reasonable to hear and determine
such appeal, and shall give reasonable notice
of such meeting, and may aba,e or increase
the assessment us may seem just
l5 Whenever the Council shall levy tax,
they shall cause to be made out an alphabet
cal list of the persons charged herewith, and
shall cause 20 be affixed thereto the respective
sums 10 be collected from each person and It
warrant to the Baliif TO collect the same.
l6 The Ballif shall, within thirty days
after the receipt Of such list and warrant, rem
der to each person named therein an account
of the tax, and if he cannot reader to any per-
son such account by reason o! his non-resi-
dence or otherwise, he shall publish such ac-
count in some newspaper in said town, at the
expense of the Taxpayer, and may, unless the
same be paid within thirty days after the de-
livery or publication of such account, collect
the same, with all costs, by distress or execn-
ton, aud sale of the real and personal prop
erty of such delinquent at public auction, all
of which proceedings shall be similar TO ths
general law now in force in this State for the
collection of State and county taxes by the
lax collector.
II. The Mayor shall execute and deliver to
the purchaser, when said sale is ified by the
Circuit Court, IL deed OF the property so sold,
and the said deed shall convey y ,,he p"r-
nh~-sr tho said property, and shall DC pre-
sumptive evidence that all the requirements
of law have been complied with in making
such sale, apd deed and unless the owner/sr-
owners shall within two years redeem siffh
property by paying to the purchaser the whole
amount of money paid by him Tor said prop
erty, with fifteen per cent. interest thereon
said ti.e shall become absolute and ndefeasi-
BILE
lS. The Baiiif shall MAKE all collections
required of him and pay the same TO the CLERK
within six months from the time the tax list
is placed in his hands and which said Clerk
shall hold, together with all other monies re-
ceived by him, subject to the order OF the
Council.
10. The Bai!ff shall attend the nee tings of
the Council, and perform such duties AS it
shall direct he shall prevent disorderly or
irregular meetings of persons, and he shal
enforce all ordinances that may be enacted by
the Council.
20. The Mayor shall have all the powers of
IA Justice of the Peace in criminal cases where
the "Mayor and Council' is Il party, and
shall receive the same fees as a Justice Of the
Peace is allowed for similar services, and an
appeal from his Judgment, when the amount
exceeds five dollars, may be taken TO the Cir
cult Court for the county, which shall hear
and determine the matter as upon appeal
from Justice of the Peace; provided, how
ever, that the Justices of the peace residing
in said town shall have the same power to
hear, try aud determine all criminal cases
where the Mayor and Council is a party, as
they now have in cases where the State Of
Maryland il party
81 The Balif shall have the same fees for
making distresses or levying execution for
taxes as are allowed county collectors, and for
-uin IN oil
ton of any ordinance of the corpo ration the
same fees as are allowed consiables for sim
liar Services and when the BailiP willfuly
fails TO discharge any duty of his ol:e he
may, in addition to the remedy on his bond,
be fined by the Mayor, in his discretion not
exceeding ten dollars for any one olfensc Tor
the payment of which said fine his bond shall
be responsible
90 All fnes, penalties and forfeilures i'm
posed by this charter or by any ordinance of
The Council, may be collected in the name Of
the Mayor and Council before the Mayor
or any Justice OF the Peace in the same man
ner as small debts are collected, aud the de-
linquent shall stand committed to the county
Jail until the same is paid with costs
23 The Council shall have authority to incur
debt not exceeding FIVE thousand dollars in
excess of the annual revenue Of the town, and
shall, Whenever any such debt is created pro-
vide tor The payment thereof by issuing Ger.
tiicates of Indebtedness at such rate of inter
est as the Council NAV deem advisable, and
shall be payable within FIVE years in the dis
erection of the Council.
"a. The public buildings and other county
property in said town shall not be subject to
taxation, and shall continue to the uses to
which the same are now allotted the Judges
of the several Courts shall continue to hold
their Courts in the Court Mouse as heretofore
the Commissioners for the county, Justices of
the Peace, Sheriff. Constabes, and all other
county and State officers shall have, hold and
exercise their Offices and jurisdiction in said
town and the Commissioners for Montgom-
cry county shall appropriate annually two
thirds of the tax levied upon the assessable
property within the corporate limits Of the
town for the improvement of the streets with
in the corporate limits Of said town, and shall
order the collector Of the fourth collector dis
trict to pay the same to the Council for that pur-
pose.