The Democratic advocate. [volume] (Westminster, Md.) 1865-1972, 1896-05-02
DUBLIC LOCAL LAW.
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CHAPTER 146.
AN ACT TO AMEND AN ACT ENTITLED
IAN ACT TO INCORPORATE THE
TOWN OF Mt. AIRY, IN CARROLL
AND FREDERICK COUNTIES"
PASSED AT THE JANUARY SEES
SION. EIGHTEEN HUNDRED AND
NINETY -FOUR, BEING CHAPTER
NINETY ONE OF THE ACTS OF SAID
SESSION.
SECTION l. Be it enacted by the General
Assembly of Maryland, That the members of
the council of Mt. Airy shall biennially APP
point a register for said town and assign his
duties by ordinance and allow him such COM
pensation as they may prescribe, and all ordi.
nances passed by the said council and signed
by the Mayor, shall be entered by the register
in book to be kept by him for that purpose,
which shall be open at all times for public in
specton, and copies of all ordinances, signed
by the Mayor and attested by the register,
shall be put up in the most public places in
said town in order that the same may be gen
orally made known. The said register shall
receive and disburse upon the order OF the
Mayor all monies collected under any ordi-
nance of the Corporation, and shall give bond
to the Mayor and Council of Mt. Airy with
such security as they shall require for the
faithful performance of his duties; he shall re-
port annually to the Council, and rs often as
required by them, the financial condition of
the town, with an account of all money re-
ceived and expended, with the proper voueh-
ers therefor; he shall be collector of all taxes
levied by said Corporation and shall collect
such taxes by distress or execution in the same
manner as the County taxes for Carroll coun-
ty are now collected, and for that purpose
shall have all the powers and authority that
tax collectors of the County taxes of Carroll
County now have, and shall be subject to suit
on his bond and Criminal prosecution as said
tax collectors of Carroll county now are.
SECTION 3. And be it enacted, That the
Mayor shall appoint annually bailiff or po
licemen for said town, which appointment
shall he subject to the approval of the Coun-
ell; before such bailiff or policemen enters
upon the discharge of his duties he shall file
with register of said corporation bond, with
security to be approved by the Mayor and
Council. made to the said Corporation for the
faithful discharge and performance of his
duties as prescribed by ordinance; and in the
execution of the duties of his Office within the
corporate limits of said town, he shall have all
the powers and authority of a constable; and
he shall pay over TO the register all monies
coming into his hands for and on account of
said Corporation.
SECTION 3. And be it enacted, That sec
ton five and seven of Chapter ninety-one of
the acts passed at the January session, eigh-
teen hundred and ninety -four, of the General
Assembly of Maryland, be and the same are
hereby repealed
SECTION 4. And be it enacted, That this
act shall take effect from the date Of its pas
sage.
Approved, April End, 1896.
LLOYD LOWNDES,
Governor.
WILLIAM CABELL BRUCE,
President of the Senate.
SYDNEY E. MUDD,
Speaker of the House of Delegates.
Office of the Chief Clerk of the House of
Delegates:
true copy of an Act of the General Assembly
of Maryland, passed at the January Session,
1896.
NJ. NJ. HIGGINS,
Chief Clerk of the House of Delegates.