The aegis & intelligencer. [volume] (Bel Air, Md.) 1864-1923, 1896-04-24
STATE LAWS.
An. Act

| to repeal Section 23 of Article 13 of the
| Code of Public Local Laws, entitled 'Har-
and re-enacted by the acts of 1890, chapter
l54, and also 10 repeal section 30 OF article ID,
| OF the Code of Public Local Laws, entitled
| Hartford County," subtitle Bel Air. and to
| re-enact the same with amendments
| SECTION l. Be it enacted by the General As
sembly of Maryland, that section twenty three
! of article thirteen of the Code of Public Local
Laws, entitled Hartford County," subtitle
| Bel Air as amended by the acts of 1890,
| chapter 154, 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| same are hereby repealed and re-enacted with
amendments so rs to read as follows: 23. The
male citizens, residing within the corporate
| limits of the said town of Bel Air, above the
| age of p years, shall hold an election on the
| first Monday of May in each and every year for
nVe commissioners, who shall hold their office
for one year. or 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 qualified voter at 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, ana 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 aud 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 i'll said town, and for the lighting of
the streets thereof, to contract with corpora
tons, individuals or firms, for 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,
straightcn, extend, stop up or discontinue ave-
nues, streets. alleys and sidewalks now or
hereafter to be laid out or used, and such as
may hereafter be lawfully established; to levy
collect establishing nint
narI owing, closing, paving, Pil1n2, straighten-
ing, repairing and keeping i'll order said ave
nues, 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 tull value u all property taken and
used for such avenue street, alley or side walk
or damages to be Sust lned in closing the same
in whole or in part, shall be assessed by the
Commissioners, and the said full value so as
SesSed shall be paid or offered to be paid To the
prOpretorS of said properly before the said
avenue. street, alley or sidewalk is opened,
widened, Strengthened or closed, and any pro-
prietor who may feel aggrieVed by such action
of the Commissioners shall he entitled to an ap-
peal at any time within thirty days of such Of
fer of payment, to the Circuit Court for SAID
county, and such appeal shall be heard and de-
termined as 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. 80. A tall
elections for Town Commissioners the voting
shall be by ballot, and all male residents resd-
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 a majority of them, or under the hand
and seal of any of them, to be returned by
themselves to the Clerk of the Circuit Court
for Hartford County in like manner as now pro-
vided by law in general elections throug bout
the State; and said judges of election shall have
access to the tax books of he said town for the
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 aftr-
affirmation) on the Holy Evangely of Almighty
God, that l will faithfully and impartally dis
charge the duties of Commissioner of Bel Air,
to the best of my ability, SO help me God;'
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 3; 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 E. MUDD,
Speaker of the House of Delegates.
Office of the Chief Clerk of the House of Dele
gates.-I hereby certify that the aforegoing is
of Maryland, passed at the January session, l
NJ NJ. HIGGINS,
Chief Clerk of the House OF Delegates