The aegis & intelligencer. [volume] (Bel Air, Md.) 1864-1923, 1890-05-09
DUBLIC LOCAL LAWS.
RELATING TO HARTFORD COUNTY
ENACTED AT TIE JANUARY SESSION, 1890. p
..a Published By authority.
CHAPTER $50.
DUBLIC LOCAL LAWS,
CHAPTER $50.

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!! .-g Published By authority.
CHAPTER $50.
| AN ACT to repeal Sections one hundr ed and
! forty-two, one hundred and forty-three, one
| hundred and forty-fve, one hundred and-ffty,
| hfty-five, one hundred and fifty-six, one hun
| bred and fifty seven, one hundred and fifty
and eighty-three, one hundred and eighty-six
one hundred and eighty-seven and one hun
bred and ninety-two of Article thirteen of the
! Code of Public Local Laws, title Hartford
county," subtitle "Havre de Grace and to re-
enact the same with amendments
SECTION 1. BE IL enacted 6y tie General assembly
Of Maryland. That sections one hundred and forty
two, one hundred and forty-three, one hundred
and forty five. one hundred and fifty, one
syye o ane bnpSred and 9n ftysx
| dred and ffty-seven, one hundred and fifty
! eight, one hundred and fifty-nine. one hum
dred and eighty three, one hundred and eight
| seven and one hundred and ninety-two of Article
thirteen of the Code of Public Local Laws, title
Hartford County," subtitle 'Hayre de Grace"
| be and the same are hereby repealed and re-
enacted, so as to read as follows
142. The Mayor shall be person of known in
tegrity, experience and sound Judgment, not less
than thirty years of age, ten years citizen of
the United States. and five years next preceding
his election a resident of said city, and at the
| time of his election, and for three months next
| preceding. assessed upon the tax books OF said
city, with real property within the city limits. to
an amount not less than one thousand dollars, and
shall hold his office for one year and until the
qualification of his successor.
| 143. The City Council shall consist OF SIX MEN,
bers, who shall be citizens Of the United States
above twenty-five years of age, residents of said
| ton, and at the time of their election and for
| three months next preceding, assessed upon the
tax books OF said city with property within the
| city limits to an amount not less than five hum
dred dollars and shall hold their office for one
year and until the qualification of their success
| sors.
wiz oFI !, ofin hol
preside over all the meetings of the City Council
and see that the ordinances of the city are duly
and faithfully executed; he shall appoint balif
| clerk. treasurer, and tax collector, and such
other officers as may be necessary for the good
government of the city. and shall present the
names of such appointees to the City Council
for confirmation or rejection he shall annually,
| onthe third Monday in December, report to the
Council, in writing the general state of the city,
with an accurate account of the money received
and expended, which said report shall be pub
lished in one or more newspapers of said city,
giving full and particular statement of all re-
ceipts and disbursements; he shall have power
10 remove any of the officers appointed by him,
for neglect or violation of any duties pertaining
| to their respective offices and shall appoint
others in their stead, and shall report such re-
moval and appointment to the City Council, at
disapproval he shall have general supervision of
the city, and shall receive for his services an an
nual salary of fifty dollars.
! $50. The bailiff shall enforce the ordinances
of said city, and shall perform such other duties
| as are now may hereafter be prescribed by
|
nances thereof, and in the execution of the du-
ties of his office shall have all and the same
power that the constables of Hartford county
| have, and shall give bond to the State of Mary
| land in such penalty as the Mayor and City Coun-
ell may direct, and with sureties approved by
them, for the faithful performances of his duties
as bailiff but nothing herein shall be construed
to prevent the bailif from also acting as tax col
lector and receiving additional pay in that capa-
! city.
| 1872 The Mayor and City Council shall have power
| to pass all such ordinances. not contrary to the
| Constitution and laws of this State, as they may
deem necessary for the good government of the
| city they may pass ordinances to prevent, re-
| move and abate all nuisances and Instructions on
on or from streets, lanes, alleys drains or watar
| courses or on or from any lot adjacent thereto
within the limits OF the city; TO remove or cause
| may in their Judgment become dangerous to
cause the streets, lanes and alleys to be paved.
| graded and drained or severed; TO cause the
| sidewalks along the public streets and highways
of said city to be graded, paved, repaired or i'm
proved curbs to be set and cutters laid to
| erect and establish market houses and regulate
markets. houses of correction, hospitals or pest
houses within or without the city, If necessary,
to establish and regulate statlon-house or lock-
up for the temporary confinement of v1olators of
the laws and ordinances of the city to suppress
vagrancy; for the protection and preservation OF
| the health of the city and its inhQbitants,
and of the city property and rights and privil-
eyes to prevent the storage of gunpowder or
other combustble matter in such quantities or
places within the city as they may deem danger
Gus to regulate and provide for licensing pawn
|
and remedies on the streets lanes or
provide for the issuing OF licenses or permits for
| all hawking, peddling and vending of wares and
| merchandise of every description on the streets.
lanes, alleys sidewalks of the city, and to issue
| licenses or permits to all itinerant peddlers who
may go from house to house to vend or sell
| wares or merchandise; to levy and collect tax
| on the assessabe property of said city as may be
| necessary to pay the interest on the city bonds,
and to provide a sinking fund for their rede mp
| al m nrpsprvHtinn DpQna
| good order, securing persons and property from
violence, danger or destruction for the suppress
| sion, restraint and regulation of bawdy houses
! and houses of ill fame; tor the assessment from
time to time. of all kinds of property and securi
ties in said city on which State or county taxes
are or may be levied, and for the levy and col
lection of tax thereon for the general purposes
of its corporation, not to exceed in any one year,
eighty-fve cents on every one hundred dollars
worth of assessable property to nix and pay tine
compensation of bailif clerk, treasurer, tax col
lector and such other officers agents or servants
as may be employed by the corporation (; to sup
press the practice of firing and dischargng fire.
arms. fire crackers. rockets torpedoes and other
explosives. either by prohibiting the sale thereof
otherwise to restrain and prohibit cunning,
and to provide for licensing. regulating or re-
straning theatrcals or other public amusements
within the city limits to establish day and night
police and erect lamps to borrow money on the
faith and credit of the city, and to open and close
streets provided, that they shall not have the
power to borrow any sum or sums greater than
five thousand dollars, or to close or ALLEVIATE any
street alley, parts thereof, that are already
opened and used as highways, without first OBJ
tanning the assent of a majority of the legal
voters of the city, cast at an election held for
erect and repair bridges within the corporate
limits, TO levy and collect taxes on dogs and
bitches and to restrain them from going at large;
to prevent swine, geese, goats, horses, mules,
cows calves cattle of any kind whatsoever from
going at large, and to restrain and suppress the
keeping of any hog pen within certain portions
of the city to regulate and define the location
of slaughter-houses and smoke-hou where
large numbers of fish are smoked to regulate
the speed of railroad trains through the limits
of the city to prevent any inmoderate
driving or riding through the streets. in any
riage, stage, cart or other vehicle, or on horse
back, SO as to endanger the lives limbs or pro-
perty of any of the In habitants of said city, or to
disturb the quiet enjoyment of the streets and
thoroughfares; to prevent disorderly conduct
and drunkenness in said city toprevent and dis
perse the congregation of disorderly persons upon
street corners and in the vicinity OF places OF
worship; to purchase such engines Cor whatever
may De tho S pr @ I'M
inhabitants from injury by hre; TO iehne the
duties of the officers of said corporation; to re-
the faithful performance of their respective
duties and for conducting elections, making re-
turns ard declaring the result thereof and they
shall have power to enforce their ordinances by
fines and penalties. And in the event OF the
validity of the bonds of said city, for thirty
thousand dollars, issued in eighteen hundred and
eighty nine, being questioned, the Mayor
and City Council are authorized by ordinance to
pledge the faith and credit of said city for thirty
thousand dollars. and to issue bonds therefor,
said new bonds only to be issued for the purpose
of taking up for cancellation said bonds OF
eighteen hundred and eighty nine, and for no
other purpose whatever.
155. Whenever they shall levy any tax they
shall cause to be made out an alphabetical list
of the persons chargeable Herewith, and sh al
affiX opposite their names the respective sums
to be collected from each person, and shall
specify the amount levied, and annex to the
said list warrant to the tax collector to collect
the same, and the said tax collector shall, upon
the receipt of said warrant and list. be forth
with chargeable with the aggregate amount of
the taxes levied, as shown by said warrant and
list, and with interest thereon from the time
when the person owing the same shall be
chargeable Herewith, and it shall be his duty
to collect the same; and the said tax collector,
before he proceeds to collect any of said taxes,
shall give bond to the State of Maryland, with
sureties owning real estate. to be approved by
said Mayor and City Council, in penalty not
less than double the amount of taxes levied, for
the faithful discharge of his duty; and the said
receipt of said warrant and list, render to each
person named therein an account of his tax;
and if by reason of the absence from said city
of the party so named therein or otherwise the
said tax collector is unable to deliver said &C
count to him, then he shall, within said sixty
days, set up and expose the same to public view
upon the assessed premises; and unless said
taxes be paid within thirty days after the deliv-
cry of such account, or the posting of the same
upon the property assessed, said tax collector
may collect the same by distress and sale of the
goods and chattelS, lands and tenements of the
delinquents and said tax collector shall make
to the Mayor and City Council monthly returns
and payments, in such manner as may be by
them directed, of all taxes collected by him
pensation for his services as said Mayor and
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