The aegis & intelligencer. [volume] (Bel Air, Md.) 1864-1923, 1892-05-13

carrying out. the foregoing powers,
and for the preservation of the peace,
health and cleanliness and good order
of the community, and for the protec-
ton of the lives and property of the
citizens, and to suppress, abate or dis
continue, or to cause to be suppressed,
abated or discontinued, all nuisances
within the corporate limits of said
town, they may pass all ordinances
or bylaws from time to time necessary,
and to insure the observation of such
ordinances in addition to an action of
debt or such other civil remedies as
may exist in such cases by law for the
recovery of the penalties thereunto
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 fines imposed they
may provide for the imprisonment of
the offender, not exceeding thirty
days, or until the fine is paid.
SEC. -. That whenever said Com
missioners shall by ordinance direct
that any street, alley or sidewalk with
in the limits to be opened, widened,
narrowed, piked, paved, repaired, ex-
tended, stopped up or discontinued, in
whole or in part, they shall upon GER
tain day to be named in said ordinance,
and within three days, inclusive of the
day of meeting, proceed to ascertain
what amount of value in damages will
be caused thereby, and what amount
the contemplated improvement will
cost, and they shall have power to pro-
vide for the payment of the damages
and costs aforesaid by levying and as
sessing the same generally upon the
whole of the assessable property of said
town, or specially upon the assessable
value of the property benefited there
by, or in their discretion, partly upon
the property benefited and the balance
upon the whole of the assessable prop
erty of said town, and the said Com
missioners shall have the power to as
certain and determine what amount of
benefits will thereby accrue to any lot
or parcel of ground adjacent to said
street, alley, or sidewalk, or the owner
thereof, and which lot or parcel of
ground or lot thereof the owner ought
to pay, and they shall ON the day fixed
by said ordinance and within three
days inclusive of said meeting, so as
certain and determine and their de-
eision in writing shall be filed with the
clerk, and shall be by him recorded in
a book kept for that purpose, and any
proprietor who shall feel himself
aggrieved by any such action of the
Commissioners, shall be entitled to an
appeal at any time within thirty days
after the decision of the Commission
ers shall be filed as aforesaid, to the
Circuit Court for Hartford County, and
such appeal shall be heard and de-
termined as appeals from Justices of
the Peace are now heard, and all bene-
fits so assessed against any lot or parcel
of ground or the owner or occupant
thereof, shall be lien against said lot
or parcel of ground, from the time said
Commissioners shall finally order the
work contemplated to be begun, and
it shall be the duty of said Commits
sioners to certify under the seal of the
corporation, to the Bailiff the amount
of benefits so assessed, who shall forth
with enter the same on his books
against the property SO assessed, and
the said Bailiff of said town shall col
lect such benefits as other town taxes
are collected, provided that no proper
ty shall be sold for the payment of
benefits until after the expiration of
six months from the date of the passage
of the ordinance by said Commission
erS.
SEC. a. That all ordinances passed
in pursuance of the above sections, in
addition to being recorded as herein
before provided, shall be printed and
posted in the most public places in said
town, as soon as possible after the en-
actmeht thereof.
may, whenever they think the public
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ment to be made of all the real and per-
limits of said town, subject to State
and county taxes, and they may pre-
scribe the manner in which such as
assessment shall be made, and provide
for adjusting all differences in relation
to such assessments, and do all things
necessary in making such assessment,
and they shall have power and author
ity to require the owner, possessor or
claimant of any property liable to as
sessment to give them such full and
accurate statement in writing of his
property as may be necessary to enable
the said Commissioners to ascertain
the value thereof, the same to be under
the oath of such person, and thereupon
the taxes herein authorized may be
levied, provided that no lands, in
Guided within the corporate limits of
said town, except houses and gardens,
shall be taxed for corporate purposes,
so long as said land shall be used for
agricultural purposes, and the Com
missioners may levy a tax on the as
sessable property within the corporate
limits of said town, not exceeding fifty
cents on the one hundred dollars worth
of assessable property.
SEC. IS. A That the Commission
ers shall publish annually full and
complete itemized statement of their
receipts and disbursements in some
newspaper published in Hartford
county, said statement to be inserted
once only, and at least one week before
the annual levy.
SEC. 16. Any person may appeal
from the valuation made by the asses
sors to the Commissioners at their next
regular meeting, and the Commission
ers shall remain in session as long as
may be reasonable to hear and deter
mine such appeals and give reasonable
notice of such meeting, and may
abate or increase the assessment as
may seem just.
SEC. II. That whenever the Com
missioners shall levy a tax, they shall
cause to be made out an alphabetical
list of persons to be charged Herewith,
and shall cause to be affixed thereto
the respective sums to be collected from
each person, and warrant to the
Bailiff to collect the same
thirty days after the receipt of such
list and warrant, render to each person
named therein an account of the tax,
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any such account by reason of his nom
residence or otherwise, he shall publish
such account in some newspaper pub
lished in Hartford county, and post the
same in some conspicuous place, and
may, unless the same be paid within
thirty days after the publication or
delivery of such account, enforce the
payment of the same in the same man
ner, and with the like effect as collec-
tors of State and county taxes now
enforce the payment of State and
county taxes.
SEC 10. That the Bailiff shall make
all collections required of him, and
pay the same to the Clerk in six
months from the time the tax list is
placed in his hands, and which said
Clerk shall hold, together with all
moneys received by him, subject to
the order of the Commissioners.
SEC. 20. That the Bailiff shall have
the same fees for making distresses or
making execution for taxes as are al
lowed county collectors, and for max
ing arrest or serving process for the
violation of any ordinance of the cor
poration, the same fees as are allowed
constables for similar services, and
when the Bailiff wilfully fails to dis
charge any duties of his office, he may
in addition to the remedy of his bond,
be fined by the Commissioners in their