The citizen. (Frederick City, Md.) 1895-1923, 1896-04-24
NEW ADVERTISEMENTS.

353 of this Article shall be entitled To vote
in the event OF the death, resignation. removal
or disqualificati II of the Burgess, the Board of
Commissioners shall select one of their own
body 10 serve Burgess until the next annual
election, AMI the commissioners a. their first
meeting after their election md qualification
shall select one Oftheir own number as Burgess
pro tempore, TO act as Burgess in case OF the
lem porary absence, or indispoSiion of the
Burgess, aud who Wnlle SO acting, shall have
and exercise all the powers of the Burgess
conferred by this Article.
3J7. The said commissioners shall have
power to appoint a register and assign his du-
ties and allow him such compensation as they
shall deem proper, and all ordinances p ssed
by said commissioners and signed by the
Burgess, shall be entt red b. the register in q
book 10 be KEEP by HIM for that purpose,
which shall be open at all times for public in
spection and accessible to the Burgess, and
copies of all ordinal 81 med by the Burgess
and attested by the register shall be- put up in
the most public places or printed In any news
paper published i'll said town, in oruer that
the same may be gene ally made known, the
register shall receive and disburSe, on the Or
der OF the Burgess all monies col ect d under
any of the ordinances of the corporation and
shall give bond TO the Burgess and Commits
Sioners of Middietown, with such security
they shall require; ne shall report annually to
the commissioners and often required
by them, the financial condition of the town,
with an account of all money received and eX-
pended, with the proper vouchers, which re-
port shall be posted in the most public places
in the town or published in newspaper in
said town, as the commissioners shall direct.
He shall collect all taxes levied by he Burgess
and Commissioners and shall have the same
power to distrain and sell therefor as collectors
o: county taxes
35S The Burgess in virtue of his office, shall
have and exercise all toe powers of a Justice
OF the Peace and be entitled to the same fees.
$50 The commissioners may enact Ordi-
nances Tor the following purposes, to-wiL: To
grade, level and rep .ir sidewalks; to construct
causeways; TO regulate and keep in repair
Streets lanes and alleys to restrain and pro-
hibit gaming; 10 provide for licensing or re-
stra lining all Lheatricas or other public exhi-
billions or amuSementS within the town; for
the prevention and extingnishment of fires
and The purchase and keeping in repair and
preservation fire engine and apparatus, and
to provide for the establishment and mainten-
ance OF fire and water departments; t. license
or tax dogs within the corporate limits OF
Middle town, and regulate the keeping of dogs
therein, and to prevent dogs from running at
large in the town; TO prevent the Introduction
OF contagious disease TO suppress 1f9nk en-
breaches OF the peace ana to preserve the
peace, order and quiet of the town; to assess
the properly within 5 AID taxable limits and to
levy and collect taxes therein necessary to
carry into effect the ordinances of the town.
SECTION 800. They shall cause the foot
ways to be paved and repaired at the expense
of the owners af lots binding thereof, 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. 1.-THE owner Off any house or lot,
or part OF q lot binding on a street which they
may direct TO be paved or repaired shall not
reside in said town. the tenant or person occu-
pylng the same or who shall have charge
thereof, shall cause such work to be done and
the money expended by him thereon in obedI-
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 collecr
the expenses thereof with costs by dis
training or selling such property or by an &C
ton of debt.
SECTION 1862. The commissioners may APP
point annually a policeman who shall have
the town, and shall serve all civil and
criminal process that may be directed to him
and perform such other duties as may be pre-
scriDed by ordinance, and they may from time
to time appoint such additional policemen as
may be require for the preservation of order.
SECTION 1868. 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 as may by law be
exempt from taxation 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 appeal from any assess
assessors to the Burgess and commissioners,
who-e duty il shall be, under sach terms as
shall be prescribed by ordinances, to:eXamine in
to the merits of such appeal anu theirs decision
in the premises hail be final.
365. If any person or body corporate shall
fail to appeal from the assessment or revision
OF assessment of his. her or lis property Inade
by the assessor, or from the action of tue as
SCISSOR, upon any application for The reduction
OI
Burgess and commissioners for the hearing of
appeals in such cases. such assessment ana ac-
ton of the said assessor hall be final and
conclusive.
366 All fines, forfeitureS and penalties under
the oroinnace OF the corporation shall be Tecov-
erabie before the Burgess or anyone OF said
commissioners, or before any JustiI of the
Peace OF Free erick County, i'll the same man
ner as small debts, and any person refusing to
pay such fines or torfeitureS shall be commit
ted the Iaii OF Frederick County until
payment or discharge in due course of law,
and each of sail con- misSionerS shall in virtue
of his Office have and exercise all the powers of
q Justice OF the Peace in so far as the recovery
OF said lines and forfeitures is concerned, and
may commit to Jail for the noD-payment there
of; and ali monies so collected shall be paid
over to the register.
1867. The Burgess may commit any vagabond
or VagTant VINO may be found wandering
about the streets of said town TO the aims
house of the county.
sos. 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 public building for the
purposes of the municipal business and for
the accommodal ion of the ire appal atus OF
the town, and they shall have power TO acquire
by purchase or by condemnation i'll the man
ner provided for by Code OF Publ c General
SO far The same may be applicable, so much
real estate as may be necessary for the cree
tion of such building, and they shall also have
power tn build lookup to be used for tn pur-
poses of SAID corporation, the cost OF wnlcn
shall not exceed one hundred and fifty dollars,
and they shall have power to levy and collect
taxes to carry out the provisions ofihIs section.
$40. The commissioners may appoint
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.
37l. The Burgess and Commissioners shall
have full power and authority To authorize
and pei nit 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
Mddietown, the right and privilege of laying
down and constructing its tracks and OF build
ing and grazing its road along, through AM
over any of The Streets lanes and alleys of said
pro sided by ordinance; the said Burgess and
Commissioners shall also have power by agree
ment with the owners or proprietors of the
turn pike 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 q 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,
here tofore acquired or made, but all rights,
SUITS claims, demands, contracts or obligations
existing and pending at the tin e of the pas
sage of this Act shall remain in III force and :
effect, and the Burgess and Commissioners of
MiddleIOwn now in Office under the provisions
OF the sections of The law repealed aud re-en-
acted by this Act, shall remain in office
with full authority to arrest prosecute and de-
sand oil