The Providence news. (Providence [R.I.]) 1891-1906, 1896-12-03
CHAPTER as7.

CHAPTER 4S7.
AN ACT To Incorporate the Maryville
Fire District.
Passed oct. I. 1896.
II Is enacted by the General Assembly
as follows:
Section /. All that portion of the
town of North Providence, including the
village Of Maryville. and bounded and
described as =, lows: Beginning at the
intersection of the line of the city or
rawtucket and Of the town OF Lincoln:
thence westerly along said i'ne TO the
I.ouisquisset turnpike; thence southerly
following The line of said turnpike 10
Mineral Spring avenue: thence westerly
sIong mineral spring avenue about ihree
hundred feet TO a brook; thence south
eriy, following said. erook. to Canada or
Kennedy pond, so called, and following
easterly margin OF said Canada or Ken
nedy pond TO the city line Of .he city OF
Providence; thence easterly. following
the said city line Of tho City Of Provi-
dence, to the point Of intersection OF the
city line of the city of Pawtucket; thence
rortherly, following the city line or The
city Of Pawtucket, 10 the first mentioned
point Of intersection q the city line OF
the city of Pawtucket. and the town line
of the town line of Lincoln. However
worded, meaning TO describe the land set
off for the proposed Naryville Eire Dis
trict. is hereby incorporated into dis
trict, to be called the Maryville Fire Dis
,rict. Said district may have common
seal. sue and be sued, and enjoy the
other powers generally incident TO CORP
| orations.
Sec. q The taxable inhabitants In
said district, qualified to vote in town
affairs on propositions TO impose taxes
| or for the expenditure of money, shall be
| eligible to vote and act in all meetings
| OF the corporation.
Sec. g. The annual meeting of said
| corporation shall be holden on the first
| Monday Of June. The first annual meet
| ing shall be holden in Jodoin Han In
| said Maryville on the third Monday in
| October, 1896.
| Sec. 4. Said taxable inhabitants, at
each annual meeting, and at any other
| meetings, when vacancies occur, may
| elect officers to serve for one year, or un-
| til the next annual meeting, and until
others shall be elected in their stead;
which shall consist OF q moderator, clerk,
treasurer, five frewards, who shall also
be board of tax assessors; three audi
tors and collector of taxes, whose duties
and powers within said district shall be
such as like officers Of towns In this state
have in their respective towns
Sec. 8. Said taxable inhabitants at
any legal meeting shall have power to
order such taxes, and provide for the as
sessins and collecting the same, on the
taxab. snhabitants and property IN said
district, as they shall deem necessary
for purchasing fire apparatus, land and
houses for keeping the same, also Tor the
purpose os lighting the streets in said
district, with gas or otherwise, and alst
for the payment Of such police force as
they may deem necessary for the protec
ton of the property Of the inhabitant:
of said district from fire. and for the
preserYaLinn- -lf The Inhlic- -neaGe.-an
such taxes so ordered shall be assessed
by the assessors of said district on th'
taxable inhabitants and property there
I'm according TO the last valuation made
by the assessors of the town next pre-
vious TO said assessment. adding, how
ever, any taxable property which ma,
have been omitted by said town asses
sors, or afterwards acquired; and in the
assessing and collecting Of said taxes
such proceedings shall be had by the ofii
GERS OF said district, as near as may be
as are required TO be had by correspond
ing officers OF towns in assessing ana col
iecting town taxes.
Sec. 6. Said taxable inhabitants shall
have power 10 enact bylaws prescribing
the duties OF firewards. and the severa
officers of said district. also, Of the in
habitants OF said district in time OF con
ragration. and for suppressing disorde
4 4 Inc az. raF
erty, or rendering other services i'm tim
OF fire; and for breach OF any such by
law may provide a penalty not exceed
ing "A fine of five dollars, to be recovore'
for the use OF said district, or imprison
ment for a term not exceeding ten days
which penalty may be enforced by pros
: ccution on complaint and warrant I'm tn
: district court OF the sixth judicial dis
trict.
Sec. Z. The firewards elected by sai'
district may order. In time OF fire, sue
buildings TO be pulled down or blown vi
: as they shall Judge necessary 10 stop tn
progress OF the fire. and. II II shall hap
: pen that the pulling down or blowing nj
, OF any such building by direction, a
: aforesaid. shall be the occasion OF stop
ping the progress of such fire, or If tn
: fire stop before it comes 90 the same, tn
, owners shall be reasonably paid there
t-y-r-t-x- -upvrf -srfd district, tn
4 amount OF which tax shall be adjudge
, by the common pleas division Of tn
2 | supreme court for the county Of Provi
dence, which division Is hereby author
4 ized and empowered, on application {
them, made in behalf OF such owners. &
adjudge as 10 the amount necessary, an
cause the same to be certified to the dis
I trict, and such tax shall be assessed an
q collected as other taxes are herein re
4 oulred 10 be assessed and cellected Il