Vagrants.

the supplement thereto, passed at the January session, eighteen hundred and sixty-seven, chapter three hundred and forty-one, [Sup. 268,] or upon any assessment hereafter made in pursuance of law, of the real and personal property within the taxable limits of said corporation, to pay all expenses and debts of said corporation and all obligations incurred by said corporation in pursuance of the power vested by the charter or any supplement thereto.

169. In case any persons be committed to jail for non-payment of the fine imposed for vagrancy, it shall and may be lawful for the mayor of Frederick city to take such persons out of jail during the time for which they may be committed, and compel them to work during the time for which they may be committed at such labor as shall be required by the mayor of Frederick.

In force and approved March 3, 1868.

FREDERICK AND PENNSYLVANIA LINE RAIL ROAD COMPANY.

By the act of 1868, c. 423, the mayor, aldermen and common council of Frederick, are authorized and empowered to subscribe to the capital stock of the Frederick and Pennsylvania Line Rail Road Company, the sum of one hundred and fifty thousand dollars, and in the discretion of said Mayor, aldermen and common council, any further sum not exceeding, in the aggregate, the sum of two hundred and fifty thousand dollars; and in case a less sum than two hundred and fifty thousand dollars may be subscribed to the said capital stock, then the said mayor, aldermen and common council are authorized to endorse the bonds of said company to any amount which, with the amount subscribed to said capital stock, shall not exceed in the aggregate the sum of two hundred and fifty thousand dollars, which endorsement shall be secured in such manner and on such terms as may be agreed upon between the said mayor, aldermen and common council, and the said rail road company.

That the said mayor, aldermen and common council, be and they are hereby authorized and empowered to issue bonds of the corporation of Frederick. bearing interest not exceeding six per centum per annum, payable semi-annually for such amount, from time to time, as may be required to pay the amounts which may be subscribed to said capital stock, which bonds shall not be subject to taxation for county or corporation taxes; and to levy on the assessable property within the limits of said municipal corporation, using as the basis of said levy the assessment of the real and personal property within the limits of said municipal corporation, made under the act of eighteen hundred and sixty-six, chapter one hundred and fifty-seven, and the supplement thereto, passed at the January session, eighteen hundred and sixty-seven, chapter three hundred and forty-one, or any assessment hereafter made according to law, such amount of taxes as may be required to pay the interest on said bonds and the principal debt, should the same become neces

sary; and also to constitute a sinking fund for their redemption, and also when, and if the said mayor, aldermen and common council shall endorse any of the bonds of said rail road company, as herein before provided, the said mayor, aldermen and common council shall levy, as aforesaid, such amount of taxes as may be sufficient to pay the interest on said endorsed bonds, or any part thereof, the payment of the interest on which may not be safely and securely provided for by said rail road company, and said bonds so endorsed shall not be subject to county or municipal taxation.

That the bonds which may be issued as aforesaid, shall be payable not more than thirty years from date, reserving the privilege of paying the same at any time not less than five years from date, and shall not be sold or disposed of at less than par. That at a municipal election to be held in Frederick, at such time and place as may be fixed by an ordinance of the mayor, aldermen and common council of Frederick, there may be written or printed on the ballots of the legal and qualified voters at said election the words, "For Rail Road Subscription," or "Against Rail Road Subscription," and if a majority of the ballots cast shall contain the words "For Rail Road Subscription," then this act shall become operative and binding; but if a majority of said ballots shall contain the words "Against Rail Road Subscription," then this act shall be void and of no effect, and the judges of said municipal election shall return to the mayor of Frederick the number of votes cast" For Rail Road Subscription" and "Against Rail Road Subscription" respectively, and the said mayor shall, by his proclamation, announce the result thereof.

ROADS.

See the act of 1868, c. 189 authorizing the location of a public road in Frederick and Carroll counties, under Public Local Laws, Art. VII, Carroll County.

Bridge.

See the act of 1868, c. 412, for building a bridge over Little Gunpowder river, at Emory's ford, under Public Local Laws, Art. III, Baltimore County.

HAVRE DE GRACE.

1868, c. 159 repeals and re-enacts sections 42, 43, 44, 45, 46, 47, 48, 49, 50, 51, 54, 56, 57, 58, 59, 60, 61, 62 and 69 of this article and adds sections thereto so as to read as follows:

1868. c. 159. Incorporated.

Limits of town.

Who to vote.

SEC. 42. The citizens of Havre de Grace, in Harford county, are a body corporate, by the name of "The Commissioners of Havre de Grace," and by that name may sue and be sued, may have and use a common seal, and may purchase and hold any property, real, personal or mixed, and dispose of the same for the benefit of said town.

43. The limits of the town of Havre de Grace shall be as follows: beginning for the same at the north end of Lycoming street, as designated on the map thereof by Septimus Norris, in the year eighteen hundred and thirty-eight, and running thence in a straight line with said street northerly three-fourths of a mile, thence easterly parallel with Huron street to the east side of the embankment of the Tidewater Canal, thence by and with said embankment and improvements of said embankment to the outlet and lock of said canal, thence by and with the Susquehanna river and Chesapeake bay to the east end of Pocomoco street, thence by and with Pocomoco street, until it intersects Columbia street, thence in a straight line to the intersection of Alliance and Lycoming streets, and thence by and with Lycoming street to the place of beginning.

44. All free white male citizens of Havre de Grace, above the age of twenty-one years, who shall have bona fide resided in said town for six months, and twelve months in the state next preceding the election, shall, on the first Monday in January in each year, at such place as shall be designated by the corporation, elect

five judicious and discreet persons, who have resided in said town for at least twelve months next preceding the election, commissioners of said town.

45. All elections shall be held and conducted as Elections. shall from time to time be directed by the by-laws of the corporation, not inconsistent with the provisions of this charter.

commission

46. If any of the commissioners during the year for Vacancy among which they were elected, shall die, resign, remove from ers. said town, or be otherwise disqualified, an election to fill the vacancy shall be held, and all persons qualified to vote at the regular, may vote at such special election.

elect.

47. If the inhabitants of said town at any time Neglect to neglect to make an election, the power of electing commissioners shall not, therefore, cease, but shall continue as though such election had been made, and the president and commissioners for the time being shall remain in office until such election shall be held.

missioners.

48. Every commissioner, before he acts, shall take Oath of coman oath before some justice of the peace of Harford county, that he will diligently and faithfully, according to the best of his judgment, perform the duties of a commissioner of the said town without favor partiality or prejudice, and a certificate of such qualification shall be made and returned by such justice to the commissioners, to be filed and recorded among their proceedings.

49. The commissioners shall have power to meet Meetings. from time to time, as they shall deem proper, and shall, at their first meeting after an election, choose from their own body a president, who shall preside at all meetings of the commissioners, vote on all questions before them, and remain in office until superceded by the appointment of a new president, after a new election of commissioners.

50. The commissioners, or a majority of them, shall Clerk. have power to appoint a clerk and prescribe his duties, and allow him such compensation as they may think proper.

Ordinances.

Streets.

High water.

Wharves.

Appeal.

Taxes.

Assessors.

51. All ordinances passed by the commissioners shall be entered by the clerk in a book to be kept by him for that purpose, which shall be open at all times to the inspection of any person interested.

52. They may lay out and continue to the Susquehanna river and the basin of the Tidewater canal, the streets designated on the plat of said town as Jefferson, Madison, Monroe, Van Buren and Erie streets.

53. They shall determine what was high water mark before the construction of the basin of the Tidewater canal.

54. They shall have power and authority to determine upon and regulate all matters relating to the erecting or building of wharves in the said town, to regulate the moving of rafts, arks and boats, and to prevent all nuisances and obstructions from being placed in the waters of the Susquehanna river in front of said town.

55. Any person aggrieved by the decision of the commissioners in fixing the line or point of high water mark may, at any time within one year, appeal to the circuit court for Harford county, and the said court shall hear testimony and review the decision.

56. The said commissioners shall have power to levy and collect taxes in said town, not exceeding in any one year sixty cents in the hundred dollars, on the assessable property of said town.

57. They shall, once in every five years, or oftener if they think proper, appoint two assessors, who shall value and assess the property in said town, in the same. manner and with like authority as county assessors, but in assessing any of the lands within the limits of the town, which may be occupied and used as farms, or may be part or parts of farms, such lands shall be valued and assessed as lots of ten acres, with the buildings and improvements thereon, and not by the number of acres in said farms or parts of farms; and said assessors shall make oath before the said commissioners that they will faithfully and impartially make the said assessment to the best of their judgment; and they