| 1779. |
LAWS of MARYLAND.
exceeding six-pence in anyone year for every hundred pounds of property
within
the said city, to defray the expences of the city, and the repairs of the
streets and
dock, is inadequate for the purpose, wherefore they pray that the said
corporation,
and their successors, may be enabled to lay such further tax, not exceeding
five shillings in any one year for every hundred pounds of property within
the said
city or the precincts thereof; that many of the apprentices, servants and
slaves,
in the said city, are corrupted, and their masters deprived of their labour,
and
injured in their property, by the selling of rum and other spirits to them
by the
ordinary-keepers and the great number of other retailers of spirituous
liquors within
the city, wherefore they pray that the power of regulating ordinaries and
retailers
of spirituous liquors within the city and the precincts thereof may be
hereafter
vested in the said corporation, and that the mayor's court of the said
city
only may hereafter grant licences to ordinary-keepers and retailers of
spirituous
liquors within the said city and its precincts, under such regulations
and rules as
the said corporation may make, and that the said corporation may reserve
and lay
fine on every such licence. And whereas this general assembly have
thought
proper to grant the several requests in the said memorial; |
Corporation
to sell two
streets. |
II. Be it enacted,
by the general assembly of Maryland, That the corporation
of the said city of Annapolis, and their successors, shall be, and they
are hereby
enabled to dispose of, sell and convey, to the purchaser, the two streets
in the
said city called and known by the name of Temple and Dean streets. |
To lay a further
tax, &c. |
III. And be
it enacted, That the said corporation, and their successors, shall
be, and they are hereby enabled to lay such further tax, not exceeding
five shillings
in any one year for every hundred pounds of property within the said city
or
the precincts thereof, as the said corporation may think proper. |
And regulate
ordinaries,
&c. |
IV. And be it
enacted, That the power of regulating ordinaries and retailers of
spirituous liquors within the said city and the precincts thereof, shall
be hereafter
vested in the said corporation, and their successors, and that the mayor's
court
of the said city only shall hereafter grant licences to ordinary-keepers
and retailers
of spirituous liquors within the said city and its precincts, under such
regulations
and rules as the said corporation, and their successors, may make, and
that the
said corporation, and their successors, may reserve and lay such fine on
every licence
granted by the said mayor's court, to any ordinary-keeper or retailer of
spirituous
liquor within the said city or its precincts. |
How the money
raised is
to be applied. |
V. And be it
enacted, That the monies arising from the sale of Temple and
Dean streets, from the taxes laid and from the fines imposed by the said
corporation,
in virtue of this act, be, and they are hereby appropriated and applied,
four fifths thereof to the building a market-house, repairing the streets,
and
cleaning the dock, within the said city, the remaining one fifth to and
for the
ordinary and accustomed uses of the said corporation and city; and the
said corporation,
and their successors, are hereby authorised and empowered to lay and
apply the monies to be raised by virtue of this act to the several uses
and purposes
therein mentioned, in such manner, at such times, and in such proportions,
as
they may judge most for the benefit and advantage of the said city; and
they are
hereby required annually to lay before the general assembly fair and distinct
accounts
of all the monies raised in virtue of this act, and of the expenditure
thereof. |
| Continuance. |
VI. This act, so far as the same relates to
the power given to the corporation
of the city of Annapolis, and their successors, to regulate ordinaries
and retailers
of spirituous liquors within the said city and the precincts thereof, and
to reserve
and lay fines on licences granted by the mayor's court of the said city,
and to the
mayor's court to grant licences to ordinary-keepers and retailers of spirituous
liquors
within the said city and its precincts, under such regulations and rules
as
the said corporation, and their successors, may make; and so far also as
the same
relates to the powers given to the said corporation, and their successors,
to lay a
further tax, not exceeding five shillings on every hundred pounds of property
within the said city and the precincts thereof, to continue from and after
the end |
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