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

Section X. The Mayor and Council shall
not expend in any one year more money tnah
the amount receivable for taxes and o'her
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 snail nave
power to assess for Taxation all properly
within the corporate limits OF SAID town, ex-
cent such real estate as may be used exclu-
siyelv for farming purposes and except such
as NAV be by law exempt from taxation, ana
his powers, duties and course of proceeding.
shall be such as shall be provided by ordi-
uances: and said Council shall provide by
ordinance for right of appeal from any as.
sessment or revision of assessment made oy
such assessor, to the said Mayor and Council
whose duty it shall be to examine, under sucn
provisions as may be made by ordinance, mo
the merits of such appeal, and their decision
in the premises shall he final. 1t any person
or corporation shall fail TO appeal from the
assessment or revision of assessment OF ms,
her or its property made by the assessor or
from the action of the assessor upon any APP
plcation for reduction of any assessment 10
the next session of the Mayor and Council tor
the hearing of such appeals in such cases,
such assessment and action OF the assessor
shall be final and conclusive.
Section q. The title of the Mayor and
Council of Mount Airy to its highways, ave,
nues, streets, lanes, alleys is hereby declared
to be inalienable, and no right or franchise III
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 2. 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against any law or ordinance repealed by this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 and judg-
meut 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, if levied after the pas
sage of this Act, shall in any manner be al
fected by the passage of this Act, and the
mode of procedure in any such matter shall
be the same AS if this Act had not been
passed.
Section 8. And 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 said Act,
and all ordinances of the Mayor aud Council
of Mount Airy now in force and not incon
sistent with this Act, shall be and they are
hereby continued until changed or repealed
respectively by the General Assembly of
Maryland or the Mayor and Council of Mount
Airy.
Section A. And be it further enacted, That
all officers provided for and named in said
Act. whether by election or appointment,
shall continue to hold, exercise aud discharge
the duties of their respective officers until they
shall be superseded under the provisions OF
this Act, and until their successors shall be
duly qualified and nothing contained IN SAID
Act shall be construed to interfere with the
continuity of the terms or tenure of any OF
said officers; nor shall re appointment or re-
election of any of said offices be necessary in
order to secure the said continuity of their.
said terms and tenures of Office.
Section s. And be it further enacted, That
this Act shall tax effect from the date of its
passage.
Approved April 7ih, 1900.
JOHN WALTER SMITH,
Governor.
JOHN HUBNER,
President of the Senate.
LLOYD WILKINSON,
Speaker of the House of Delegates.
Office of the Chief Clerk House of Delegates:
hereby certify, That the aforegoing is
true copy of an Act of the General Assembly
of Maryland, passed at the January session,
1900. b. L. SMITH,
Chief Clerk of the House of Delegates.
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