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DUBLIC LOCAL LAW.
the Act Incorporating
the Town of Hampstead.
CHAPTER 42I.

CHAPIER Al.
AN ACT to repeal Section 3, 4, 5, q, Z, 8,
9, 10, IL, II, Is, IA, Is and 16, of an Act
of the General Assembly of Maryland,
passed at its January Session, eighteen
and eighty eight, Chapter two hundred and
ninety five, entitled san Act to Incorporate
the Town of Hampstead, Carroll county"
SECTION l. Be it enacted by the General
Assembly of Maryland, That Sections 8, 4, 5,
6, I, 8, 9,.10, IL, IL, 10, IA, Is and 16, of the
Act passed at its January Session, eighteen
hundred and eighty-eight entitled Gan Act to
incorporate the town of Hampstead, Carroll
county," be and they are hereby repealed and
the following Sections enacted in lieu thereof:
SECTION 8. And be it enacted, That all
persons who have resided within the corpor.
ate limits of said town for six months next
preceding the election, and who are qualified
TO vote for delegates to the General Assembly
of Maryland, shall elect by ballot on the
First Monday in May, in each and every
year, one person, at least twenty five years OF
age, who is the owner of real estate or lease.
hold property within the corporate limits oil
said town, and who has resided in said town
at least two years previous to said election,
Mayor of said town; and six persons, each OF
whom shall be at least twenty-one years Of
age, and shall have resided in said town at
least one year previous to said election, and
be the owner of real estate or leasehold
property within the limits of said town, mem.
bers Of the Council.
SECTION 4. And be it enacted, That all
elections for officers shall be held by one or
more Judges of Election, who shall be ap-
pointed annually by the Mayor and Council of
said town, and in such manner, and at such
place, and after such notice as may be direct
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CHAPTER 6ag.

AN ACT to authorize the Mayor and Com
mon Council of the City of Westminster to
issue its bonds or certificates of indebted
edness to an amount not exceeding fifteen
thousand dollars, for the purpose of pro-
viding means for the grading, paving or ma
cadamizing the streets in the City of West
minister and construction of sewers.
SECTION l. Be it enacted by the General
Assembly of Maryland, That the Mayor and
Common Council of Westminster be, and they
are hereby authorized and empowered to issue
bonds, in the name of the Mayor and Com
mon Council of Westminster, in sums not less
than one hundred dollars nor more than one
thousand dollars, to be signed by the Mayor
and countersigned by the Clerk of said Com
mon Council of Westminster, not exceeding
in the whole the sum of fifteen thousand dol
lars, bearing interest not exceeding five per
centum per annum, payable semi. ANNUALLY,
on the first day of January and on the first
day of July in each and every year. and said
bonds shall not be disposed of at less than the
par value thereof, and tie same shall be ex-
empt from county and municipal taxation.
SECTION g. And be it enacted, That the
said bonds shall be issued payable thirty years
from the date thereof and redeemable at any
time after the expiration of twenty years from
the date thereof, at the pleasure of the Mayor
and Common Council of Westminster, and
the said bonds shall be consecutively num-
bered as the same shall be issued.
SECTION 3. And be it enacted, That the
said sum of fifteen thousand dollars, or so
much thereof as may be necessary for this
purpose, shall be, by the said Mayor and
Common Council, used and applied exclu-
sively to the payment of the cost and expenses
of paving, grading or matchmaking, and in
construction of sewers in such street or streets
in said City Of Westminster as the said Mayor
and Common Council may order and direct.
SECTION 4. And be it enacted, That the said
Mayor and Common Council be, and they are
hereby authorized and required, in each and
every year, to levy and collect special tax,
not exceeding six cents on every one hun
dred dollars worth of the taxable property, of
all kinds and description liable to assessment
and taxation within the corporate limits of
the City of Westminster, to pay the inter-
est on the outstanding bonds, by them issued
under the provisions of this act, as the same
shall fall due, and to gradually redeem and
retire such bonds until they shall all have
been redeemed and retired; and the proceeds
Of such taxes shall be paid to the said Mayor
and Common Council and forthwith by them
applied to the redemption of said bonds,
when and as soon as they shall become re-
deemable, and the said taxes are hereby in
violably held to be applied to the payment of
the interest and principal of said bonds.
SECTION 5. And be it enacted, That this
act shall take effect from the date of its pas.
sage.
Approved April It'll, 1892.
FRANK BROWN, Governor.
MURRAY VANDIVER,
Speaker of the House of Delegates.
EDWARD LLOYD,
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DUBLIC LOCAL LAW
Making Valid Acts of the IT..
Bridge Water COMPANY 0nion
CHAPTER aGo


AN ACT to ratify, confirm, and make VOL,
Acts and proceedings Of the Directors ' "
the Union Bridge Water Company in r.. "
roll county, Maryland, in borrowing m mo Uar'
to fully complete the Water Works OF TTO ul
Company. VI SAID
WHEREAS, The Directors of tho T..
Bridge Water Company in Carroll conn., Shlon
the 18th day of September, 1887, did nss, On On
order, supposing they had the legal aI pISs an
to do so, authorizing the President and
Director of the Board to borrow 81 5So Que aN
and they did, also, on the first day of Jan U
1889, borrow $607.67, for the nnrnoo" =
completing said Water Works; and F''s u
WHEREAS, The said sum of S., IO7 e.
borrowed, and the whole of il anrI;oI was
economically and judiciously as tbeI p"; ;ua4 Is
ment directed, therefor jug
SECTION l. BE it enacted BY the Gsro..,
Assembly of Maryland that the Acts anI
Proceedings of the Directors of the Tn Snu
Bridge Water Company, in Carroll Countv Ir
borrowing money to complete the aforsI,;3
Water Works, and the engagements ent taa,J
into by them in consequence thereof ba arS
the same are hereby ratified, confirmed and
made valid. anu
SECTION 2. And be it enacted, Tba, ,b;,
Act shall take effect from the date of Il,
passage.
Approved April 4th, 1892.
FRANK BROWN, Governor
MURRAY VANDIVER,
Speaker of the House of Delegates
EDWARD LLOYD,
President of the Senate
hereby certify that the foregoing is trus
copy of an Act of the General Assembly a
Maryland, passed January Session, 1892
CARLTON SHAFER,
Chief Clerk of the House of Delegates
apl6 st
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LOCAL LAW.
Authorizing the County Commits
sioners to Refund Taxes to
the Westminster Water
Company.
CHAPTER 361.

AN ACT authorizing and directing the Coun-
ty Commissioners of Carroll County to Re-
fund to the Westminster Water Company
Taxes Improperly Paid by said Company.
WHEREAS, The County Commissioners Of
Carroll County have for the years 1884, 1885,
1886 and 1887 improperly assessed the West
minister Water Company upon its personal
property, upon which said property and as
sessment it has paid for the aforesaid years to
the Collector of Taxes for the Seventh Elec-
ton district of Carroll County the sum of one
hundred dollars 100000 enormously paid
as county taxes; and
WHEREAS, said County Commissioners have
assessed in the hands of the owners thereof
three thousand seven hundred and fifty dol
lars $3.50, being part of the preferred stock
of said Westminster Water Company, and
have for the years 1887, 1888 1889 and 1890
collected county taxes thereon, and
WHEREAS, the said Westminster Water
Company did, upon the fourth day of April,
1891, upon the warrants of the Treasurer pay
into the Treasury of the State for the years
1884, 1885, 1886, 1887, 1888, 1889 and 1890
as State taxes the sum of one hundred and
three dollars and ten cents ($l03. 10Y, there
fore,
SECTION l. Be it enacted by the General
Assembly of Maryland, That the County
Commissioners OF Carroll County are hereby
authorized and directed to refund and pay to
William b. Thomas, Treasurer of said West
minister Water Company, the first aforesaid
sum of one hundred dollars ($100.OO)
SECTION 2. And be it enacted, That this
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DUBLIC LOCAL LAW.
To Empower the Mayor and Com
mon Council of the City of
Westminster to Purchase
Water Works.
CHAPTER 534.

AN ACT to authorize and to empower the
Mayor and Common Council of the City of
Westminster to purchase Water Works for
said City.
SECTION l. Be it enacted by the General
Assembly of Maryland, That the Mayor and
Common Council of Westminster are hereby
authorized and empowed to purchase theWater
Works, plant, property, real and personal,
easements, rights and privileges ofthe West
minister Water Company, and all or so much of
the capital stock or bonds of said Company, as
may be necessary, for the entire and fall
management and control of all such property,
rights and privileges of said Water Company,
at such price and upon such terms and con-
ditions as said Mayor and Common Council
shall agree upon with said Water Company.
SECTION 2. And be it enacted, &C., That
before any such purchase or contract shall be
binding upon said City of Westminster, the
said Mayor and Common Council shall cause
to be published in all newspapers printed in
Westminster plain statement Of the cost and
price of all such property, rights and privi-
leges of said Water Company, and the times
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the sheriff shall be allowed the sum of two
dollars and fifty cents per day for the first five
of said prisoners or any smaller number there
OF, and the sum of twenty-five cents per day
for each prisoner additional to the first FIVE so
put at labor, during the continuance of said
labor.
SECTION Z. And be it enacted, That the of
ficer of the City of Westminster, under whose
direction and supervision the hard labor con-
templated by this act is to be performed, shall
make monthly report to the County Com
missioners of Carroll County, and to the
Mayor and Common Council of the City of
Westminster, of his operations, such report
to include the number of prisoners perform
ing hard labor, the number of days each
worked, the number of perch of stone used,
the amount of work done, the cost thereof,
and such other information as he may deem
important or as may be required by the said
County Commissioners or the said Mayor and
Common Council.
SECTION 8. And be it enacted, That Chap
ter 80, Public Local Laws of Carroll County,
approved February 20, 1890, relating to
''Drunkards'' and drunkenness, is hereby
repealed, and and also all acts or parts of
acts inconsistent with this act, so far as they
apply to Carroll County.
SECTION 9. And be it enacted, That this
act shall take efect from from the uate ol us
passage.
Approved April I, 1892.
FRANK BROWN, Governor.
MURRAY VANDIVER,
Speaker OF the House of Delegates
EDWARD LLOYD,
President of the Senate.
hereby certify that the foregoing is true
copy of an Act of the General Assembly of
Maryland, passed January Session, 1892.
CARLTON, SHAFER,
Chief Clerk of the House of Delegates.
apr16 st
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DUBLIC LOCAL LAW.
Designating Terms of Office of the
County Commissioners of Car
roll County.
CHAPTER $50.

CHAPTER ~.
AN ACT to carry into effect Section one of
Article seven of the Constitution of Mary.
land, so far as the same relates to Carroll
county, and to repeal Section Is of Article
seven, Code of Public Local Laws title
Carroll County, subtitle County Com.
missioners, and to re-enact the same with
amendments.
SECTION l. Be it enacted by the General
Assembly of Maryland, That section IS of
Article seven, Code of Public Local Laws,
title Carroll County, subtitle County Com.
missioners, be and the same is hereby repealed
and re-enacted so as to read as follows:
SECTION IS. There shall be three County
Commissioners for Carroll county; and of the
three Commissioners elected TO Office on the
Tuesday next after the first Monday in the
month Of November, eighteen hundred and
ninety-one, one, to wit, Hezekiah Hahn, shall
hold office for the space of two years; one, to
wit, Joshua F. Caltrider, shall hold Office for
the space of four years; and one, TO wit, David
Stoner, shall hold office for the space of six
years; and at all elections hereafter to be held
for County Commissioner of Carroll county,
the person elected shall hold office for term
of six years, so that there shall be an election
for one County Commissioner every two years.
beginning with the Tuesday next after the
first Monday in the month Of November, in
the year eighteen hundred and ninety three
SECTION 2. And be it enacted, That this
act shall take effect from the date of its pas
sage.
Approved March 3lst, 1892.
FRANK BROWN, Governor.
MURRAY VANDlVER,
Speaker of the House of Delegates
EDWARD LLOYD,
President of the Senate.
hereby certify that the foregoing is true
copy of an Act of the General Assembly Of
Maryland, passed January Session, 1892.
CARLTON SHAFER,
Chief Clerk of the House of Delegates.
anril l6 3t
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NO. 1902 EQUITY.
Nicholas W. Steele VS.. Emily Frances DA''''
ct al. n
Ordered this 18th day of April, A. ~
1892, that the sale of the property men
toned in these proceedings, made ana re-
norted in this cause by Nicholas w. Steels'
Pinkney L. Davis and Abraham England,
trustees, be ratified and confirmed, unless IS
cause to the contrary thereof be shown on OF
before the 10th day of May, 1892; provided .
copy of this order be inserted in some new" .r
paper printed and published in Carroll G SaGnrs
once in each of threee successive weeks Dei'''
the 9th day of May, next. be
The report states the amount oil SAFE ~ ~
$l1O7.76. c,..l
True Copy,-Test: C..L
apr16 st BENZ. F. GROUSE, OlerA.
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ORDER OF PUBLICATION.
In the Circuit Court for Carroll County
No. 304l Equity.
Hezekiah Hahn and others, VS.. Samuel W
j.

III SHCulL SOuTL SuIIOll SbuutyN
No. 304l Equity.
Hezekiah Hahn and others, VS.. Samuel W.
Hahn and others.
The object of the bill of Hezekiah Hahn
and others, filed in this cause against Samuel
W. Hahn and others, defendants, is to obtain
a decree for the sale of certain real estate, OF
which certain Samuel Hahn died seized and
possessed, and that the proceeds arising from
said sale be divided among the heirs law
of said Samuel, as they may be shown to be
respectively entitled.
The bill states that said Samuel Hahn died
in Carroll county, in the year 1881, intestate,
leaving q widow Lydia Ann, who is now de-
ceased, and the following children: Heze'
kiah Hahn, Sophia, wife of James W. Whites
Isabella S. A, wife of Samuel SpangleTS
Clara j., wife of Samuel Lum; Samuel ".
Hahn, Clementine, wife of Abraham koontz;
Sevilla, wife of William II. Grouse and Ezra
Hahn.
That said Ezra Hahn departed this life
after the death of his father, leaving widow
Mary C, Hahn, and two children, Emory
Earnest Hahn and Florence Estella Pletzer,
wife of Elridge Pletzer; that said Mary U.
Hahn, widow of Ezra, died in April, 1890.
That all the parties to this suit are OF age,
Earnest Hahn and Florence Estella Pletzer'
who are under twenty-one years OF age.
That all said heirs-at.law mentioned IN tne
bill are residents of Carroll county, Maryland
except Sevilla Grouse, who lives in trederlck
county, Maryland; Samuel W. Hahn and ms
wife, Margaret, who live in Cumberland
county, Pennsylvania, and Emory Earnest
Hahn, the whereabouts of whom IS unknown
except that he is a non resident of the State
of MARYLAND, and Florence Estela Pletzer
who lives in Baltimore City, Maryland
That all the parties to the suit are adulls,
except said Emory Earnest Hahn 4, aho
Florence Estella Pletzer, as Aforesaid. Inh'
Samuel W. Hahn assigned all his interest," u
the estate of his father to Ezra Hahn IN Ms
lifetime.
The said bill prays for the sale Of said lana
and division of the proceeds OF sale aihoAg
those entitled. tits thereupon adIudged aun
ordered by the Circuit Court oil CarFoi'
county, in Equity, this 18th day OF April
eighteen hundred and ninety'two, that the
plaintiffs, by causing copy of this order 10
be inserted in some newspaper published III
Westminster, Carroll county, Mary land' once
in each of four successive weeks before me
10Th day of May, next, give notice 10 aee
said Samuel Hahn and Margaret, his wile,
and Ernest Emory Hahn, the Whereabouts o.
whom is unknown, but who is non: resident
of the State of Maryland, absent defendants;
of the object and substance of said bill anu
warn them to appear in this Court in person. n
or by solicitor, on or before the 10th day oil OF
July, 1892, to answer said bill, and snow snow
cause, if any they have, why decree onsH'
not to pass as prayed. nrc
CHARLES B. ROBERTS,
Circuit Judge.
amid 81 BENZ. F. GROUSE, Clerk.
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sage. VI It's Pas.
Approved April 4th, 1892,
FRANK BROWN. Gov.,
MURRAY VANDIVFfTPPO
Speaker of the House of Daiaat.'
EDWARD LI0 6EfGs'
President of the Sen,,o'
| hereby certify that the foregoing ia.
copy of an Act of the General ASA y true
Maryland, passed January Session i1ss1noly Of
cu CARLTON SHAFER
Chief Clerk of the House of DeIaaa,'
aprl6 st esa'es.
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COMMISSIONERS NOTICE.

The County Commissioners OF oarr ;n
county will meet at their office, in West IHaa
ster, ON the LIST Monday in May lo'-'
for the transaction of business.
By order, CHAS. BRILH6Ahi'
apr OlerA>
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certify the foregoing to be a correct copy
of an Act of the General Assembly of Mary
land, passed January Session, 1892.
aprl6 st w. G. PURNELL, Secretary.
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DUBLIC LOCAL LAW.

Authorizing the Mayor and Common
Council of the City of West
ster to Issue Bonds for the
Improvements of its
Streets.
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l hereby certify that the foregoing is true
copy of an Act Of the General Assembly of
Maryland, passed January Session, 1892.
CARLTON SHAFER,
Chief Clerk of the House of Delegates.
apr 16 st
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TN the Circuit Court for Carroll Co.

True copy,-Test: 0..L
ap16 st BENZ. F. GROUSE. CLERK.
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| damaged, shall be determined and assessed
by three disinterested persons of good judg-
ment, residents of said town, to be appointed
by said Mayor and Council, and who shall
make an oath before justice Of the peace for
said county that they will faithfully value the
damages to be suffered by the person inter-
ested, and shall return the damages assessed,
under their hands and seals, with certificate
of their oath from the said Justice of the peace
TO the Mayor and Council at their meeting
Immediately following said assessment Of
damages, which said assessment of damages
| shall be ratified, or rejected by said Mayor
and Council, or majority of them; and any
person feeling aggrieved by the determination
of the Mayor and Council, may, within sixty
days from such determination, appeal to the
Circuit Court for Carroll county, and the
judgment of said Court shall be final; and
upon an appeal being taken it shall be the
duty of said Mayor and Council to transmit
the papers connected with the case to the
Clerk Of said Court; and before making any
attempt to open, establish, widen or close any
road, street, lane or alley, it shall be the duty
of the Mayor and Council TO tender and pay,
or cause to be rendered and paid, To the per-
son damaged, the amount of damages assessed
and finally awarded: provided always that no
private property shall be taken for Corporate
use, without compensation to the owner
| thereof
SECTION IL. And be it enacted, That the
Mayor shall appoint annually bailiff for said
town, which appointment shall be subject to
the approval of the Council; before said bail.
if enters upon the discharge of his duties he
shall file with the Clerk of said Corporation
bond, with security, to be approved by the
Mayor and Council, made to the said Corpor.
alton, for the faithful discharge and perform
/ Of HE d,,f.ao I'D a.. r IL.
article, and under the ordinances passed by
said Council; and in the execution of the dn.
ties of Office, within the corporate limits of
said town, he shall have all the powers and au-
thority of constable; he shall pay over to the
clerk and treasurer all moneys coming into his
hands for and on account of said corporation;
he shall be the collector of all taxes levied BY
said corporation, and shall collect said taxes
by distress or execution in the same manner
as the county taxes for Carroll county are
now collected, and shall for that purpose