The Democratic advocate. [volume] (Westminster, Md.) 1865-1972, 1900-05-05

Section Y The Mayor and Council shall
not expend in any one year more money than
the amount receivable for taxes and other
sources for that year.
Section Y. The Mayor, by and with the
advice and consent of the Council, shall an
nually appoint an assessor, who shall have
power to assess for taxation all property
within the corporate limits OF said town, ex-
cept such real estate as may be used eXclu-
sively for farming purposes and except such
rs may be by law exempt from taxation, and
his powers, duties and course of proceeding.
shall be such as shall be provided by ordI-
nances; and said Council shall provide by
ordinance for right OF appeal from any as
sessment or revision of assessment made by
such assessor, to the said Mayor and Council,
whose duty it shall be to examine, under such
provisions as may be made by ordinance, into
the merits of such appeal, and their decision
in the premises shall he final. If any person
or corporation shall fail to appeal from the
assessment or revision of assessment of his,
her or its property, made by the assessor or
from the action of the assessor upon any APP
plication for reduction of any assessment to
the next session of the Mayor and Council for
the hearing of such appeals in such cases,
such assessment and action of the assessor
shall be final and conclusive.
Section Il. The title of the Mayor and
Council of Mount Airy to its highways, ave
nues, streets, laues, alleys is hereby declared
to be inalienable. aud no right or franchise in
relation TO any highway, avenue, street, lane
or alley, either on, above or below the sur
face of the same, shall be granted by the
Mayor and Council of Mount Airy, to any
person or corporation for a longer period
than fifty years.
Section > And be it further enacted, That
this Act shall not affect or impair any right
vested or acquired and existing at the time OF
the passage of said Act; nor shall said Act
impair. discharge or release any contract,
obligation, duty, liability or penalty whatever
now existing. All suits and actions, both
civil and criminal, pending or which may
hereafter be instituted for causes OF action
now existing or offences already committed
against any law or ordinance repealed by this
Act shall be instituted, proceeded with and
prosecuted to final determination aud Judg-
ment as if the said Act had not been passed
No tax levied or any proceedings taken for the
collection of any such tax or the enforcement
of the payment of the same, before the pas
sage of this Act or the taxes levied for the
year nineteen hundred, it levied after the pas
sage of this Act, shall IN any manner be at
fected by the passage of this Act, and the
mode of procedure in any such matter shall
be the same as it this Act had not been
| passed
Section 3. Aud be it further enacted, That
/ all laws now in force relating or applicable to
/ the Mayor and Council of Mount AIRY, or to
| the. town Of Mount Airy. and not included IN
| this Act. and not inconsistent with snd Act,
/ aud all ordinances of the Mayor and Council
/ of Mount Airy nov in force and not ,neon'
! sistent with this Act, shall be and they are
/ hereby continued until changed or repealed
| respectively by the General Assembly oi
| MARYLAND or the Mayor and Council OF Monnt
/ Airy
I Section l. Aud be II further enacted, That
1 all officers provided for and named IN said
! Act. whether by election or appointment,
/ shall continue 20 hold. exercise aud discharge
| the duties fiheir respective officers until they
/ shall be superseded under the provisions OF
/ this Act aud until their successors shall be
/ duly qualified aud nothing contained IN SAID
\ Act shall be construed to interfere with the
4 continuity Of the terms or tenure OF any 81
! said officers: nor shall re appointment or re
4 election of any OF said offices be necessary II
I order to secure the said continuity Of then
( said terms aud teuureS of office.
/ Section ; Aud be it further enacted. Tha
k this Act shall ta>e effect from the date OF III
paSsagr.
Approved April 9Th, 1900.
/ JOHN WALTER SMITH,
Governor.
JOHN HUMMER,
President OF the Senate.
LLOYD WILKINSON,
Speaker OF the House Of Delegates.