The aegis & intelligencer. [volume] (Bel Air, Md.) 1864-1923, 1896-05-01
STATE LAWS.
An Act

to repeal Section 23 of Article ID of tn,
Code of Public Local Laws, entitled "Har
| ford County," subtitle Bel Air, as repealed
| and re-enacted by the acts of 1890, chapter
154, and also To repeal section 80 of article ID
| OF the Code of Public Local Laws, entitled
Hartford County" subtitle Bel Air" and Il
| re-enact the same with amendments.
| SECTION /. BE it enacted by the General As
sembly of Maryland that section twenty three
of article thirteen of the Code of Public Loca
| Laws, entitled "iiarfurd County," sub-titl,
| BEL Air." rs amended by the acts of 1890
| chapter I'D, and section thirty of article thir
teen of the Public Local Laws, entitled "Har-
| ford County, subtitle Bel Air." be, and the
! same are hereby repealed and re-cnacted with
| amendments, so as to read as follows: %. The
male citizens, residing within the corporate
| limits of the said town of Bel Air, above the
| age of 21 years, shall hold an election on the
| first Monday of May in each and every year for
| five Commissioners, who shall hold their office
for one year, until their successors are elect
ed and qualified, and shall have the manage
ment of said town, and no one shall be eligible
| to hold the office of Town Commissioner who is
not Il qualified voter ut said election. And said
Commissioners shall have full power and
authority to enact and pass all ordinances, TO
preserve the health of the town, to promote
cleanliness and good order, to regulate the
keeping and running at large of CATTLE swine,
goats, dogs, fowls, and other animals to pre-
serve and promote the peace, order and good
government of said town, to regulate the po-
lice, and provide for the payment of the same;
to impose and appropriate taxes fines, penal
ties and fOrteitureS for the breach of their Or
dinances- and for the purpose of providing for
the eXtinguiShment of fires, and to protect the
property in said town, and for the lighting Of
the streets thereof, to contract with corpora
tons, individuals or firms, for 4 period longer
than one year; provided that no such contract
shall be made to bind the corporation for IL
longer period than fifteen years; to establish
new avenues, streets, alleys and sidewalks; to
open, widen, narrow, repair, pave, pike
straighten, extend, stop up or discontinue ave-
nues, streets. alleys and sidewalks now or
hereafter to be laid out or used, ana such as
may hereafter be lawfully established; to levy
and collect taxes for establishing, opening,
narl owing, closing, paving, piking, Straightcn-
ing, repairing and keeping il, order said ave-
nucs, streets, alleys and sidewalks, and the
roads leading from and to said town, provided,
that when any avenue, street, alley or side
walk shall be opened, widened, Strengthened or
closed, the full value of all property taken and
used for such avenue street, alley or sidewalk
or damages to be sustained in closing the same
in whole or in part, shall be assessed by the
Commissioners. and the said full value so as
scssed shall be paid or offered to be paid to the
proprietOrs of said property before the said
avenue, street, alley or sidewalk is opened,
widencd, Strengthened or closed, and any pro-
prietor who may feel aggrievcd by such action
of the Commissioners shall be entitled to an ap-
peal at any time within thirty days of such Of
fer of payment, to the Circuit Court for said
county, ana such appeal shall be heard and de-
termined its appeals from Justices of the Peace
are now heard; and the Commissioners in assess
ing the damages to said land taken shall take
into consideration the benefits and advantages
derived by the proprietors thereby. 30. a tall
elections for Town Commissioners the voting
shall be by ballot. and all male residents rcgid-
ing within the corporate limits, above the age
of twenty-one years, and assessed with one
hundred dollars worth Off cal or personal prop
erty on the taX-books of said town shall be en-
titled to vote. The judges of election shall
make returns of election under the hands and
seals of Il ma jority of them, under the hand
and seal of any of them. to be returned 10y
themselves to the Clerk of the Circuit Court
for Hartford County in like manner as now pro-
vided by law in general elections throughout
the State; and said judges of election shall have
So,
purpose of determining the qualification of
any voter whose right to vote is disputed, and
it shall be the duty of said clerk as soon as
may be after the returns are made, to inform
the Commissioners so elected, and administer
to them, separately, the following oath or affr
ON the Holy Evangcly of Almighty
charge the duties of Commissioner of Bel Air,
to the best of my ability. so help inc Cod"
which shall be within the test book for other
officers in the custody of the said Clerk, and
signed by said Commissioner, which said oath
and signing shall be deemed their qualification.
Section 2. And be it enacted, That this act
shall take effect from the date of its passage.
Approved, April 18th, 1896.
LLOYD LOWNDES,
Governor.
WILLIAM CABELL BRUCE,
President of the Senate.
SYDNEY f. MUDD,
Speaker of the House of Delegates. |
Office of the Chief Clerk of the House of Dele
gates.-I hereby certify that the afOrcgOing is
of Maryland, passed at the January session,
1896.
MN. HIGGINS,
Chief Clerk of the House of Delegates. |