The Republican. [volume] (Oakland, Md.) 1877-current, 1902-04-24
CHAPTER Az.

VI IllChucNillts III DlSlIltb NulllDbT Two
in Garrett county, and for the amend
ment of Article II of the Code of Public
Local Laws of the State of Maryland, en-
titled "Garrett County, by adding addi-
tional sections thereto to be known as
Sections lila. lib, Tic, lid. HE,
illG, lilH, III, INK, lllL, and to
said Article IL, and to be known by the
subtitle "Friendsville.N
WHEREAS, At meeting of the male citi-
Zens and residents of the town of Friends
vile, in Garrett county, Maryland, held on
the 10th day of January, 1902, it was decided
by the unanimous vote of the residents of
said town attending said meeting that an
application should be made to the General
Assembly for a Charter for said town of
FriendSVille.
SECTION l. BE it enacted by the General
Assembly of Maryland. that the inhabitants
of FriendsVille, in District No > in Garrett
county, Maryland, are hereby Incorporated
by the name of THE Mayor and Council of
Friendsville' and by that name may sue and
be sued, plead and be impleaded, may have
ana use common seal and may hold real,
personal and mixed property when the best
interests of the town may so demand.
SECTIoN2 And be it enacted that certain
new sections be and the same are hereby
added to Article II of the Code of Public
Local Laws. title Garrett County," under
the new subtitle "FriendsviIle' to follow
Immediately after Section III and to be des-
ZIG, 1llH, ILL, INK, I'LL, defining the
corporate limits of said town, corporate
powers thereon and said sections to read as
follows
said corporation shall be governed by a
Mayor and six Councilmen and that John w.
Mccullough of said town be and he is hereby
appointed Mayor Of said town and that Will
liam H. II. Friend, Allen J. Mason Erastus
G. w. Ryland, Frederick 6. Fox, Walter W
Savage and George j. kOlb are hereby APP
pointed Councilmen of said town. the said
Mayor and Conncilmen to serve until the
first Wednesday after the first Tuesday in
February. 1868, when an election shall be
held for Mayor and six Councilmen who
shall serve for two years or until their sue
cesSors are elected and qualified and bian-
nually thereafter on the same day elections
shall be held for said officers to serve for
two years as aforesaid. In case of death.
resignation. failure to qualify of any party
elected as Mayor or Councimen. the corpor-
ate board, not less than a quorum being
present, shall fiji such vacancy by the cleo
ton of some other qualified inhabitant of
FriendSville to I'LL the uneXpired term of the
party whose place shall thus have become
vacant. The Mayor and COuncilmen during
their official term shall hold no other cor
poration office nor be interested in any con
tract to which the said corporation is party
or where the money for said contract is TO
be paid out of the corporation treasury.
SECTION lib. And be it further enacted
that the Mayor and Council herein named
shall have power to pass all such ordinances
for conducting the elections herein provided
for, or which may be hereafter authorized to
be held and shall make return thereof to the
Clerk of the Circuit Court for Garrett county
and the qualified voters at any of said cleo
tionS shall be the bona tde male residents
above the age of twenty one years of said
town of Friendsville, who have been resi-
dents OF said town for period OF at least
one year continuously next before the date
OF any such election, and no one shall be eli
gible for the office of Mayor or Councilmen
or SAID town unless he shall be real estate
owner, or the husband of a bona fide real
estate owner in said town; and the Mayor
snail have been resident of said town for
QNrnn 10, ole
Councimen shall have been residents of said
town for two years prior to their election.
SECTION TIC. And be it further enacted.
that the said Mayor and Council may from
time to time cause an assessment to be made
of all the property liable to State and county
taxes within the corporate limits and to levy
a tax thereon not exceeding twenty-five
cents on the one hundred dollars in anV one
year, and said property shall be assessed at
its actual cash value and that the lands in
cluded within the above named corporate
limits which have not been laid out as town
lots or as town property shall be exempt
from taxation, with the exception of the
buildings and personal effects thereon and
the said Council may appoint an assessor
and collector of taxes and fix his salary OF
compensation and provide for method of
collecting the taxes by ordinances, and also
the method OF making assessments and any
person aggr1eved by any assessment made
under this provision shall have the right of
an appeal to the said Mayor and Council of
said town of Friendsville.
SECTION lid. AM De III furUner enacted,
that it shall be the duty of the Mayor of said
town to see that the ordinances of the town
are duly and faithfully executed, and he
shall appoint, subject to the confirmation of
the Council, all such persons as agents and
servants of said corporation as may be nee
essary to carry out the objects and purposes
of the Incorporation and enforce the ordi-
nanceS to be passed thereby.
SECTION lie. And be it further enacted,
that said Council shall have power to pass
all such ordinances, not contrary to the Con-
Stitution and laws of the State as it NAV
deem necessary for the good government of
the town, for the protection and preserva-
ton of the towns property, rights and priv
negeS; for the preservation of peace and
good order and securing persons and prop
erty from violence, danger or destruction;
for the protection of health, comfort and
convenience of the citizens of Friendsville
and visitors thereto or sojourners therein;
for providing proper and suitable lights
upon the public streets; for establishing,
maintaining and regulating an adequate
police force; to regulate the location and
management of starch factories, glue fac
tories, renderies tallow chambers, bone
factories, soap factories, hide houses, tan
ner1eS, slaughter houses, brewerieS, diStil-
lerieS, livery stables, foundries, and all other
establishments of which the business or
trade may become noxious or injurious to
public comfort and health; to prohibit the
erection of such buildings or the continu-
ance OF such noXious, injurious occupations
therein wherever the public comfort or
health requires it; to prevent or regulate the
use ana sale OF firearms, fireworks, bon-fires
or other things or practices tending to en-
danger persons or property; to regulate and
prohibit the running at large of cattle horses
or swine, fowls, sheep, goats, dogs or other
animals; to authorize the empounding keep
ing, sale and redemption OF such animals
when found in violation of the ordinance in
such cases provided; to prevent the deposit
OF any unwholesome substance, either on
private or public property; to compel it's re-
moVal TO designated points and to require