The citizen. (Frederick City, Md.) 1895-1923, 1896-05-08
PUBLIC LOCAL LAWS.

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hibit gaming; to provide for licensing or re-
straining all theatrcals or other public exhi-
billions or amusements within the town; for
the prevention and extinguishment of fires
and the purchase and keeping in repair and
preservation q fire engine and apparatus and
to provide for the establishment and mainten-
ance of fire and water departments; to license
or tax dogs within the corporate limits Of
Middle town, and regulate the keeping of dogs
large in the town; to prevent the introduction
of contagious diseases; to suppress drunken
ness, vice and immortality; to punish by fine
breaches of the peace and to preserve the
peace, order and quiet of the town; To assess
the property within said taxable limits and to
levy and collect taxes therein necessary to
carry into effect the ordinances of the town.
SECTION $50. They shall cause the foot
ways to be paved and repaired at the expense
of the owners af lots binding thereon, when
ever they may direct such work to be done,
and shall direct how and of what materials the
same shall be paved or repaired.
SECTION 36l. fthe owner Ofany house or lot,
or part OF a lot binding on street which they
may direct TO be paved OR repaired shall not
reside in said town, the tenant or person occu-
pyIng the same or who shall have charge
thereof, shall cause such work to be done and
the money expended by him thereon in obedI-
ence to the ordinance OF the corporation shall
be allowed by such owner and deducted from
the rent due or to become due; and If any such
owner or tenant shall neglect or refuse SO to
do, the burgess and Commissioners shall have
such footway paved and repaired and collect
the expenses thereof with costs by dis
training or selling such property or by an ac-
ton of debt.
SECTION 1862. The commissioners may ap--
p int annually policeman who shall have
power to preserve the peace and good order of
the town, and shall serve all civil and
criminal process that NAV be directed to him
and perform such other duties as may be pre-
scrioed by ordinance. and they may from iime
TO time appoint such additional policemen as
may be require for the preservation of order.
SECTION 1863. They may appoint annually
an assessor, who shall have power to assess for
taxation all property within the taxable limits
OF said town, except such may by law be
exempt from tax alton, aud his powers, duties
and course of proceeding shall be such as shall
be provided by ordinance.
SECTION 1854. They shall provide by ordi-
nance for right OF appe'l from any assess
ment or reverslon of assessment made by such
assessors TO the Burgess and Commissioners,
who>e duty IL shall be, under SEch terms as
shall be prescribed by ordinance, to3examlne in
to the merits OF such appeal ana their decision
i'll the premises hall be final.
365 III any person or body corporate shall
fail to appeal from the assessment or revision
ofaSSessment of his. her or It's property made
by the assessor, or from the action of the as
sessor, upon any application for the reduction
of auy assessment to the next session of the
Burgess and commissioners for the hearing of
appeals in such cases. such assessment and ac-
ton of the said assessor ehall be final and
conclusive.
366 All fines forfeitures and penalties under
the orc innace of the corporation shall be recov-
cradle before the Burgess or anyone OF said
commissioners, or before any Justice of the
ner as small debts, and any person refusing to
pay such fines or 1orfeitures shall be com nit
ted 10 the laiI OF Frederick County until
payment or discharge in due cUuI Sc of law,
and each of said commissioners shall in virtue
of his office have and exercise all the powers of
Justice of the Peace in so IA" as the recovery
of said nnes ant forieitures is concerned, and
may commit to Jail for the non payment there
of; and all monies so collected shall be paid
over to the register.
1857. The burgess may commit any vagabond
wandering
about the streets of said town 10 the aims
house of the county.
1868. The said Burgess and Commissioners
may by ordinance prohibit the running at
large in said town of any horses, cattle, sheep,
swine or geese.
1869. The Burgess and Commissioners may
erect and maintain a public building for the
purposes of the municipal business and for
the accommodation of the fire apparatus of
the town, and they shall have power to acquire
by purchase or by condemnation in the man.
ner provided for by Code of Public General
Laws. Article %, sections l67 to l73 inclusive,
so far as the same may be applicable, so much
real estate as may be necessary for the cree
ton of such building, and they shall also have
power to build a lookup to be used for the pur-
poses of said corporation, the cost of which
Sha IL not exceed one hundred and hity dollars,
and they shall have power TO levy and collect
taxes to carry out the provisions of this section.
3d. The commissioners may afboint an
nuaily water superintendent and lamp
lighter, whose duties and compensation, as
well as the compensation of all other officers
whose appointment by the said commissioners
is provided for by this Article shall be pre-
scribed by ordinance
81. The Burgess and Commissioners shall
have full power and authority to authorize,
and pei init and by ordinance to grant to any
railroad company who's road enters or is in
tended to enter the limits of the corporation OF
Mid0ietown, the right and privilege of laying
down and constructing its tracks and of build
ing and grading its road along, through ana
over any of the streets, lanes and alleys of said
town, subject to such regulations as may be
provided by ordinance; the said Burgess and
Commissioners shall also have power by agree
ment with the owners or proprietors of the
turnpike road running through said town,
to take charge of, and keep in repair 20 much
of said turnpike road as lies within the taxable
limits, as one of the streets of said town.
SECTION 2. And be it enacted, That nothing
in this Act contained shall be construed to
impair or affect any right or contract of the
Burgess or Commissioners of Middletown,
heretofore acquired or made, but all rights,
suits, claims. demands, contractsor obligations
existing and pending at the tin e of the pas
sage of this Act shall remain i'll fu ! force and
effect, and the burgess and Commissioners Of
Middlelown now in Office under the provisions
of the sections of he law repealed and re-en-
acted by this Act shall remain in office
with full authority to arrest prosecute and de-
lend all such pending rights, suits, claims, de-
mands, contracts or obligations and to exercise
all the powers and duties of Burgess and Com
missioners under the provisions of this Act,
until theiI successors are elected and qualified
as hereinbefore provided, and with full power
to collect all taxes heretofol e assessed and
I6NISu WlID1D the SdlQ bdXaOl0 IInllS Oh kalu
corporation and remaining unpaid at the time
OF the passage OfthiS Act.
SECTIoN 3. And be it enacted, That ctions
three hundred and seventy-three A, three
hundred ana seventy three b. three hundred
and seventy -three q, and three hundred and
seventy-three d, of Article eleven, of the Code
of Public Local Laws, title '.Fredefick
County," subtitle "Middletown" as enacted by
the Act of eighteen hundred and ninety,
Chapter three hundred and twenty-five, beand
the same are hereby repealed.
SECTION A. And be it enacted, That this
Act shall take effect from the date of its pas
sage.
Approved March 9th, 1896.
LLOYD LoWNDES,
Governor.
WILLIAM CABELL BRUCE,
President of the Senate.
SYDNEY e. MUDD,
Speaker of the House of Delegates.
OFFICE OF THE
SECRETARY OF THE SENATE. ..
hereby certify that the aforegoing is a true
COPY OF an Act of the General Assembly OF
Maryland, passed at the January Session.
1894. -
j. ROGER McSHERRY.
Secretary OF the Senate.
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