The aegis & intelligencer. [volume] (Bel Air, Md.) 1864-1923, 1890-05-09


collector to report the said sale, together with
all the proceedings had in relation thereto, to
Court shall examine said proceedings, and if the
same appear to be regular, and the provisions
of law In relation thereto have been complied
with, shall order notice to be given, by adver-
tisement in one weekly newspaper published
in said county, warning all persons interested
IN the property sold to be and appear on GER
tain day in the said notice to be named, to show
cause, If any they have why said sale should
not be ratified and confirmed; and fno cause
or an insufficient cause be shown against the
said ratification, the said sale shall, by order of
said Court, be ratified and confirmed and the
purchasers shall, on payment of the purchase
but If good cause, in the Judgment of the said
Court, be shown In the premises, the said sale
shall be set aside, In which case the said tax
collector shall proceed to a sale of the prop
erty, and bring the proceeds into Court out of
which the purchaser shall be repaid the purchase
money paid by him to the tax collector on said
rejected sale. and all taxes assessed said real
estate and paid by said purchaser since said
sale, and all costs and expenses properly incur
red in the said Court with interest on all such
sums from the time of payment; and if the
purchaser has not paid the purchase money or
the subsequent taxes, said proceeds shall be
applied to the payment of the taxes for which
said real property may have been sold, and all
subsequent taxes thereon then in arrears, with
interest on the same, according TO law, and the
costs of the proceedings; but such sale shall not
be set aside If the provisions of law appear to
have been substantially complied with, and
the burden of proof shall be on the exceptant
to show the same to be invalid under the law.
the tax collector, the owner thereof prior to
such sale may redeem the same, by paying into
Court, to be paid to the purchaser thereof,
within the period of twelve calendar months
from the date of such sale, the amountof the
purchase money, with interest thereon at the
date of the sale.
1888. The Mayor and City Council are author
lied and empowered to pass ordinances to en-
courage the location and establishment in the
city of manufactures and manufacturing in
dustries and enterprises, and the growth and
development of those already established
therein, and for these purposes to grant said
factories and Industries, financial aid in such
manner as they in their judgment may think
will be for the bestinterest of the city; to pro-
vide by ordinances for the abatement of all or
any taxes levied by their authority for any of
the purposes of the corporation, upon any me-
chanicaI tools or implements, whether worked
by hand or steam or other motive power, ma
chinery, manufacturing apparatus or engines,
in said city, and which shall be actually en-
ployed and used in the business of manufacture
ing In said city, and upon any Of the raw
dividuals, firms or corporations in and for the
purpose of the manufacturing business in
ed, intended to be offered for sale in its said
raw or unmanufactured condition, and upon all
real estate actually used or occupied for said
duty of the clerk of said city, to make such
abatement of taxes levied as aforesaid, as may
be authorized and directed by said Mayor and
City Council; provided that application for
such abatement shall be made and verified to
the satisfaction of said Mayor and City Council,
by the oath of the party applying for the same,
or other satisfactory evidence, before the annual
closing of said tax list in each year; and said
clerk shall further keep record of all abate-
ments made by them as aforesaid. and report in
writing the aggregate amount thereof during
the year. to the said Mayor and City Council
on or before the first day of December in each
year; and said Mayor and City Council are
further authorized and empowered, for the
purpose of inducing manufactures and manu-
featuring enterprises to locate their works and
plant and operate the same in said city, to
contract with the owners thereof to exempt
fora term of years. from all municipal taxation,
all such property, both real and personal, as
may be actually used, occupied and employed
for said manufacturing purposes; provided that
such contract shall not provide for said exemp-
ton for larger period than fifty years and
the said Mayor and City Council, are author
lied and empowered, to ratify and confirm any
contract made by the said corporation during
the year eighteen hundred and eighty-nine
with the firm of ]. Faust d Son, to induce them
to locate their shoe factory in said city, to the
same extent to which said Mayor and City
Council, could, under this section, have made
a valid, binding contract with said firm.
1856. Said scales shall be adjusted at least once
in every six months by the standard for weights
for the City of Baltimore, the expenses of which
adjustment shall be paid by the inspector.
1877. The County Commissioners shall be re-
heved from the care of the roads, streets and
of Havre de Grace, and the care of the same
shall be transferred to the Mayor and City
of said transfer, all the property within the
corporate limits of said city shall hereafter be
exempt from taxation for public, district
county road purposes outside of said corporate
limits; but nothing in this section contained
shall be construed as preventing or prohibiting
County from making appropriations out of the
general levy of the county for the use of the
corporation of Havre de Grace, or from levying
for the same.
1872 Nolcense to sell spirituous or fermented
liquors in said city shall be granted to any APP
plicant who has complied with the three pre-
ceding sections until said applicant shall have
paid to the Clerk of the Circuit Court for Har-
ford County the sum of three hundred and fifty
dollars and the fSrther sum of five dollars for
approving and filing the said bond and other
papers and for his other costs and charges in
issuing the said license, which said sum of three
hundred and fifty dollars the said Clerk shall
pay over to the Mayor and City Council of Havre
de Grace, within thirty days after it has been
received by him, without any abatement or de-
duction whatever: and the said Mayor and City
Council shall apply all such sums so received
by them. after the year eighteen hundred and
ninety-one, first, to the payment of the interest
on the bonded Indebtedness of said city, and
whatever surplus remains after the payment of
a part of the sinking funds of said city, to pay
the principal of said bonds at their maturity.
SECTION 2. Be ii FURTHER enacted, That this Act
shall take effect from the date of its passage.
Approved March I'D, 1890.
ELIHU E. JACKSON, Governor.
JOHN HUBNER,
Speaker of the House of Delegates.
r. +. BRATTAN,
President of the Senate.
thereby certify, that the foregoing is a correct
copy of an Act of the General Assembly of Mary
land, passed January session, 1880.
CARLTON SHAFER,
APPS Chief Clerk House of Delegates.