The Democratic advocate. [volume] (Westminster, Md.) 1865-1972, 1904-05-07
PUBLIC LOCAL LAW
Passed at the January Session,
1904.
INCORPORATION OF SYKES
WILLIE

Mdrylduu.
Section l. Be it enacted by the General
Assembly of Maryland, that the citizens of the
town of Sykesville, in Carroll and Howard
counties, be, and they axe hereby created
body corporate, by the name of the Mayor
and Common Council of Sykesville, 2" with all
the powers and privileges of a body polite
and corporate, and by such corporate name
shall have perpetual succession, sue and be
sued, plead and be implicated in any Court of
Law or Equity; may have and use common
seal, may purchase and hold real, personal
and mixed property, and sell and dispose of
same for the benefit of the town, and may
erect or lease suitable buildings for municipal
purposes.
Limits of Said Town. &c.
Section 3 And be 1t enacted, That the
limits of said town shall be as follows South
SO degrees, west 2 perches from Springfield
Hospital stone gate post marked Spring
field, to beginning of first line, running north
Al degrees, west IA perches: line ,. north 444
degrees, west Y perches; line 8, north 434
degrees, east 80 perche5 line 4, north Al de-
grees, west 80 2-5 perches; line 5, south 524
degrees, west 70 5 perches to a stone; line s,
south % degrees, west 1876 2-5 perches; line Z,
south 16 degrees, west % perches to maple
tree; line s, south 103 degrees, east lSl IA
perches to cedar tree; line 8, south so degrees,
east 1924 perches to chestnut tree; line 10.
north 544 degrees, east IS perches to black
oak tree; line IL, north 709 degrees, east u
perches; line l., north "A degrees, east 81 S-5
perehes to rock marked X; line Is, north =
degrees, east 31S perches; line IA, north 139
degrees, west 642 pertnas to hickory tree;
line Is, north 692 degrees. west Is 2-25
perches, to beginning of first line.
Section 8. And be it enacted, That the
IL oifizans of said town IF the of twenty
one years or upwards, who shall possess the
qualifications of legally registered voters Of
this State, and who shall have resided IN said
town for the space of six months next pre-
ceding the first Tuesday in May, 1904. shall
elect on that day and each year thereafter, at
such place as shall be selected for the holding
of the election, one person, legal voter of
said town, who has resided therein for two
years at least next preceding the election to
be the Mayor of said town, and six persons TO
be Common CouncIlmen Of said town, who
shall possess the same qualifications the
Mayor: no person shall be eligible as Mayor
or as Common Councilman of said town I'm
less be be an owner in fee simple of real estate
in said town in his name TO the amount of at
least FIVE hundred dollars, and shall SO remain
during his term Of Office, and his term of office
shall terminate upon his removal of residence
from the town limits. Neither the Mayor nor
any of the Councilmen SHALL during their term
of Office, hold or be interested ia any Office
under the corporation, or be party directly
or indirectly to any contract or undertakings
entered into on the part of said town.
Section 1. And be it enacted. That the
Mayor and Common Council and all other Of
icers of the corporation shall, before they
enter upon their duties Of their office, make
oath before Justice Of the Peace that they
will diligently and faithfully. TO the best Of
their skill aud Judgment, perform the duties
OF their Office, and shall file certificate thereof
of the officer before whom the same Was made
among the records of the corporation. The
Mayor and Common Council may require aGy
Of its officers to give bond in such penalty aud
with such surety as they may deem necessary.
conditioned for the faithful performance of
their duties. and said bond shall be deposited
in the hands Of the Mayor and Common
Council. When any officer wilfully fails TO
discharge his Office be may, in addition to The
remedy of his bond, be dismissed by the
Mayor and Common Council at their discre-
ton.
Section 8. And be it enacted, That the
said Mayor and Couneilmeu elected hereun-
der, shall meet on or before the third Monday
in May next succeeding their election, when
they shall qualify and meet as often thereafter
as necessary to a proper discharge Of their
official duties. They shall receive no pay for
their services, and in case of vacancy IN either
Of these Offices by reason Of death, refusal 10
act, disqualification. resignation, or removal
beyond the corporate limits, the Mayor and
Council, or q majority of them, for the tine
being shall elect Mayor or Councilman from
the citizens Of the town 10 fill said vacancy.
until his successor shall be elected al the next
regular town election and shall have qualified.
Section 6. And be it enacted, That the
Mayor and Common Council may annually
appoint Clerk, Treasurer, Bailif, Attorney,
snd such other town officials as theg may
deem necessary, al such compensation as they
may think proper
Section I. And be il enacted, That the
Mayor and Common Council NAV provide by
ordinance for the good government Of the
town, for the preservation Of the peace and
order therein, and for securing to The residents
Of said town all rights Of persons and property
to which they are By law entitled for the sur
veying, grading. paving. repairing. draining.
laying out, extending. opening closing.
Strengthening or relocating any Of the high
ways, roads, streets, sidewalks or alleys in said
town, and may condemn or purchase the right
Of wey for any street or alley which they ;nay
determine shall be opened for the public good,
the process of condemnation 70 conform
far as may be to the condemnation of property
for roadways by the Commissioners Of Carroll
county, as authorized by law; for the removal
Of nuisances; for the removal Of distractions
from the streets, lanes and alleys; for the es-
tablishment of building lines and building reg
ulations; for prohibiting the carrying Of con
cealed weapons; for prohibiting the discharge
Of FIRE arms, FIRE crackers, torpedoes and other
explosives; for preventing swine, fowls, dogs,
or other animals from running at large on the
street; for licensing theatrical or other amuse-
ments; for the suppression of gambling, vice
and immortality for apprehending and punish
ing all tramps and Migrants; they may pass all
ordinances necessary from time TO time to
carry ont and enforce the foregoing provisions,
and to give full force and effect to the powers
and authority conferred on said corporation.
and may enforce such ordinances by reasoua-
BILE fines aud penalties, not exceeding twenty
FIVE dollars in any one case, as may appear to
them right; they may recover said fine or
penalty BY an action Of debt, and IN addition
thereto may provide in the ordinance for the
Imprisonment the offender until the fine i
pasl, not exceeding thirty days; such impris-
onment TO be in the town lookup, If one be
provided, or in the county Jail, and the Sheriff
of Carroll county shall receive and confine
any person so committed.
Section s. Aud be il enacted, That the
Mayor and Common Council of Sykesville
shall have full power 10 provide for the intro
duction of water, electric light, or gas into
said town, and to efectuate such object may
contract with or grant unto any other corporate
body, public or private, or 10 any individual
or partnership, the right of franchise within
the limits of said town for the purpose Of
operating a passenger railway, water works or
electric light plant, the granting of such fran
chise to be regulated by the ordinances Of said
Mayor and Common Council; and also may
grant the right to lay eonduits or water mains
through the streets, alleys or highways Of said
town, and authority is hereby given said
Mayor and Common Council to condemn pri-
vate property if the same should become nee
essary for the operation Of the aforesaid fran
chise; said condemnation proceedings to be
in accordance with the general laws Of the
State of Maryland as are in such cases apph-
cable thereto, and also to construct, purchase
and operate an electric light plant or water
works for the benefit Of the town whenever in
their Judgment the interest of said town de
mands the same, and to contract or provide
for the furnishing or supplying of water, cleo
trio light or gas IN sufficient quantities for the
needs of the town and the inhabitants thereof
by any other body, corporate, public or pri-
vate, or by any individual or individuals; and
in order to carry out and effeetuate such OBJ
ject, it shall have full power TO erect, maintain
and equip electric light poles and to lay water
mains and conduits, erect FIRE plugs, and gen
orally to do all things that may be necessary
to provide water for said town, In such guam
tify and at snch nlaces as NAV be necessary to