The Republican. [volume] (Oakland, Md.) 1877-current, 1904-05-05
PUBLIC LOCAL LAWS.
Incorporating FriendsViIie.
CHAPTER 800.

sections thereto. to Ige known a. Sections
TIA, lib. TIC. lid. llIF. lllG. lllH. ILL.
Xix. I'LL. him. no. HIP. mo. TO follow
Immediately after section III OF said arti
Gle - and TO be known by the subtitle
Friendsville, and to exempt tie town OF
Friendsviile III district No. , in Garrett
county, as herein bounded ana described
from the operations of the provisions or
chapter u OF the Acts Of lS.I, entitled An
Act to prohibit the sac Of SpirituOuS or
fermented liquors or lager beer in cleo
ton district No of Garrett coUatT.'
WHEREAS. At a meeting Of the male cfti-
Zens and residents Of the town of Friends
vile. in Garrett county, Maryland, held on
the l4th day of January. 1901. il 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 charter for said town of
FriendSville
SECTION /. BE it enacted by tile General
Assembly Of Maryland. That Is new sections
be and tie same are hereby added 10 Article
II of the Code Of Public Laws. title Garrett
County under the new subtitle "Frlends-
VILE to Immediately follow section Ill, TO
De known as sections MA. NIB, III lllD,
HE, lllF, llJFG. lllG. lilH. ILL. III II. MI,
HIM. no, Hip, and ne, ana 10 read rs fol
lows:
SECTION TIA. That the inhabitants " the
town ut FrieuGSVilc in district No. = In Gar
rett county, Maryland, are -reby !ucOrpO-
rated lay the name of TIE Mayor and Cuun-
Gil of FTteudsvillp.n ana by that name may
sue anu ne Nuttl INA ave anu use a NOiil-
mon seal. and may hold real, personal and
mixed property ana dispose of the same
when the hest Interests Of the town may
demand.
SEC. lib. BE il further enacted. That tine
corporate limits of the town OF Friendsvile
are hereby declared TO be as follows: Begin
ming at bounded mulberry tree. standing
north ten degrees west sixty perches from
John y. GGrN's house. ana running thence
59l9 deg. east one hundred ana ninety
punches to q clump of Pawpaw bushes. north
p degrees east l40 percbes to a stone corner,
then south 10 degrees east VA percheS to a
large rock, then south g. degrees west 80
percheS to a stake on brow OF lIi'l above coal
bank, north 81 = degrees west -. yercneS to
a leaning tree little above and beyond
Homer Friends house. thence north de
greeS west 2S1 perches to the beginuiu"
SEC. me. BE il further enacted That said
corporation shan be governed 10y Mayor
and six Councimen and that W. W. Savage
of said town be. ana is hereby named Navor
of the said city for the two years from the
passage OF this Acy. ending the first Wednes-
day after the first luesda in February in
1906, and that VIM. n. ii. Friend. Allen j.
Mason and Arthur Chisholm. be and the
same are hereby named and designated as
the Councinnen for the first two years from
the passage OF this Act ending on the first
Wednesday after the first Tuesday in Feb
ruary, 1906, ana that Frederic q. Fox. John
w. Mccullough ana George j. Il oh are here
by named as COuncilmen to serve for the
one year from tue passage Of this Attending
on the first Wednesday after the first Tues
day in February, 1903, and hereafter an cleo
ton shall be held on the first Tuesday in
February each and every year for the cleo
ton Of three COuncilmen to serve for two
years from the date Of their election or until
their successors shall be duly elected and
qualified. And an election shall be held on
the first Tuesday in February, 1906, for the
election Of Mayor Of said town to serve for
two years or until his successor shall be duly
elected and qualified, and an election shall
be held thereafter i'll every second year for
the election OF Mayor for the said town.
SEC. Tic. And be it enacted, That the
Mayor and the Council therein 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 of Garrett
county. And the qualified voters OF any OF
said elections shall be bona dde residents.
male shall be Il years OF age or over of
said town of FriendSville, who have been
residents Of State for the period OF one year
and of said town for the period of six
months continuously next before the date Of
any such election; and that no one shall be
eligible for the office of Mayor or Councilmen
of said town unless he shall be a real estate
owner or husband of a bOHd tide real estate
owner in said town. And the Mayor shall
have been a resident OF said town for three
years previous to his election and the COun-
cilmen shall have been residents OF said town
two years prior to their election.
SEC. lid. And be it further enacted. That
the said Mayor and Council NAV from time
to time cause an assessment to be made OF
al the property liable to the state and coun-
ty taxes within the corporate limits, and to
levy a tax thereon not exceeding TWENTY-FIVE
cents on the one hundred dollars i'll any one
year, and that said property shall be assess
ed at its actual cash value: and that the
land included in 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 for
compensation, and provide for a method OF
collecting the taxes by ordinance, and also
the method OF making assessments and any
person aggrieved 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.
SEC. HE. And be it further enacted That
it shall be the dnty of the said Mayor OF the
said town TO see that the ordinances of the
town are duly and faithfully executed, and
he shall appoint subject to the confirma ton
or the Council all such persons as agents and
servants of the corporation as may be neceS-
sary to carry out the objects and purposes
OF the incorporation and enforce the Ordi-
nances to be passed thereby.
SEC. l1lF. And be it further enacted That
said Council shall have power to pass all
such ordinances not contrary to the Consti-
tuition and laws of this state, as it may deem
necessary, for the good government of the
town; for the protection of the towns prop
erty, rights and privileges for tile preserva-
ton of the peace and good order and secur-
ing persons anu properly from violence ana
danger and destruction for the protection
of the health. comfort and convenience of
the citizens of Friendsville, and visitors
thereto or SojournerS therein for providing
proper and suitable lights on the streets :
for establishing, maintaining and regulating
an adequate police force; to regulate the
management and location of starch facto
rieS. glue factories, renderieS, tallOw chand-
lerS, bone factories. soap factories hide
houses, tannerieS. slaughter houses. brewer
les, diStilerieS. livery stables, fOundrieS and
all other establishments OF which the bust
ness or trade may become obnoxious or in
hibit the erection of such buildings. or the
continuance of such noXiouS occupations
therein. whenever the public health requires
it; to prevent or regulate the use of fire
arms, fire works, bon fires or other things or
practices tending to cndanger persons or
property; to regulate or prohibit the running
at large of cattle. horses, swine, fowls. sheep.
goats, dogs or other animals to authorize
the impounding, keeping. sale and redemp-
ton of such animals when found in violation
of the ordinances in such cases proVided to
prevent the deposit Of any unwhOlesome
substance, either ON public or private prop
erty; to compel its removal to designated
points and to require Stops, garbage, ashes
and other waste or unwhOleSOme material to
be removed to designated points, or to re
quire the occupants OF residents on premises
to place them conveniently for removal; to
compel the occupants of any premises, build
the same have been filthy or unwholesOme
to abate or clean the same. to authorize the
same to be done by the proper officers and
to assess the expenses thereon against such
property; to regulate or prevent the storage
of sun powder, tar, pitch, resin, coal oil.