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AN AU'P for the incorporation of the town of Salisbury.
Sec. 10. Thai tho said board of commissioners shall meet
"xii ihe tar n htfl ttor wtrer ftac- trp porti trd by rft-m )irm
the last Saturday in every monlli, and ot such other times
os may to agreed on from tare to tin e I y tli-n ; rsd n mn
jority shall constitute n quorum for the transaction of business-:
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Sec. II. Tha nt the fiisl meeting of said board of com
missioners after their election, they shall appoint n clerk,
who shall Le allowed a reasonable talnry to be fixed by said
give a bond, to penal ynm to be fixl by wid fomiriissfon
rrs, payable to Ihem and their snceewtors In office, with
condition trial he shall obey and diligently execute all law
ful precept to him directed by the Intendant of Police for
said town, and that he will faithfully discharge all other
duties which may be imposed upon him as town constable
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iy iav or me oruinnnres oi rant commissioners; aim intu uc
will diligently endearour to carry in'o effect all sucli ordi
nances. It shall be the duty of said town constable, in gen
era!, to c iMf"lhrornaal:ceTAfM!d xommU sloners, are
enforced, and report all breaches! hereof U the Intendant of
Police, to preserve the peace of said tjwn by the suppres
sion ofdisturkincer, and the apprehension of offendcrspwd
or that pit pose, he shall haveandheis hereby inrested with
XjIjhejpo
he shall also have, in the execution of process to hiindiretled
by the said Intendant of Police, the same powers which
sheriff and constables now have in iho execution of like
process directed to them : he shall receive n compensation to
bo fixed by f aid cornnjjssioners, and . the saruo lees on all
process executed or returned by him which are. given to con
stables in like process when executed or returned by them
Sec. 10. That vacancies in tho office of town clerk,
town treasurer, tax collector and town constable, may be
commissioners; who sliall hold his office until the xpirntion
rf ilm rtfTioial (Arm nf ttn'il fnmmicctnrfrQ . snlilrrl. however.
r , , filled by said board of commissioners at anyUm?...
to bo removed bv them at any limp.; M. cnMslii'Iiajriorf ua ir4ifr,'V&TiFTT ' rrV" VWai
LrJ,i: rf" . , m Sec. jL -That the Said town clerk shall, within I
T-lerfc sFa 2i ve a bond, with surety, payable to said eom- ..... -.
niissioners and their successors in office, in a penal sum to
bo fixed by them, with a condition lor the keeping by him of
regular and fair minutes of ilur proe- cdings oP comniission-
p?rs aiu? articles coniniitted lo tiis cusiody during his con
tiiin tnco in nice, and their delivery to bis successof, find the
faiihlul perforiDmiC of all his other duties as clerk whieji
jiny bo imposed upju li'Oi by law or theordiinuces of said
commissioners.
S,ic, t2. That atilm same 'mociillZ, tho said boaid of
crtmmssioners shall appoint a town treasurer, who shall
hold his offico for the same term, and I suljecMoUie.somfe
' conditionsi as ilieelerkabove provided-br--luMaj:fcjJla.
shall, before assuming his offic?, g;ivc bond, with approved
sureties, iri a psnalsum to be fixed by said commissioners,
payable to said commissioners and their successors in office,
with a condition that he shall receive and faithfully keep
all moneys which shall be paid to him on behalf of said
com nissiouers, nn J disburse the ijamc according to order
given in obedience to the direction of said commissioners ap-p.-aiiu
on their minutes. That ha shall keep a fair and
correct account of all moneys so received and disburred by
hi u, in a book kept for that purpose. 1 That ho shall sub
mit said account to said commissioners, vheuever required
to do so; and thai he shall pay to Jus successor, on demand
by bfff all moneys in his.hands. belongitig to said commis
sioners, and that he will faithfully perform all other duties
imposed on him as town treasurer by law or the ordinances
of said commissioners during his continuance in office. The
said commissioners shall allow tho said town trpasurer n
.rea,SQjab!com
drawn on the lo.vu treasurer by the clerk shall state tho
purpnso to which the money is to 'hip applied; and the said
town treasurer shall specify said purposes in general terms
in the accounts kept by him, and also the sources whence the
nnney icceived by him are derived; and said commission
ers shall causa a copy of said ncoount forjho year pre
ceding every first day of December to be made by their clerk
and pns'e l iu the court house in said town for twenty days
next previous to the first day of January in each and every
year; and for breach of their respective duties assigned them
in this seciion, the said commissioners, clerk and town
treasurer shall lie liable to indictment.
See 13. That at th? first, monthly meeting of said com
niesiouers, after the appointment of said cleik and town
ireasurer, those officers shull respectively report tn the com
luis.Moners (he particulars tf their settlement with their res
Mctive prcdivessors in office.!
Sec. I i. That the said commissioners mav a!so appoint
a collector irf town taxes, who xhall hold his office for the
.residue of the term of commiuf iners appointing him, and
wti' shall, i'veboinl, with approved security, payable to said
commissioners fld ihi-ir successors fn office, in a penal sum
to be fixed by sflftii voniniissioners, with a cuudiiion that he
jvill diligently endwvor M colle :t all taxes impod by said
Jl i . . .. ...i . i.. e -ii -t
TTOWWlHsSj lni"ij us" iui ma' iitkiw n nil uie j.'-WPr
en hi in by l.vtrt and that he will liiithfuHy account for
d pay over t -the town treasurer all slims of money eni
sled or received by him for said corrnussioners, first de
leting five per centum on his receipt', as his compensa-
oii:au4that he Will faithfully dischuig all nther duties
inojJ o him as init collector .by law or tlieordinancesor
-r-rs: -r,-1 -.i;rw r;irrr r-rt'-tT
j.j cMniinisaiiers : rroviueu, . imuiuiir iitrum coiiinnipu
tytflm sieouitrtwd as to prevent lh- sai l,, commissioners,.
iialllQey jo U.tehi, from mpjiiin the sheriff of said
,'noy Uonr iu U) ewlUii-t .the town taxes; and the said
'iii'f ff, Vu frjiiiri Ut fiid coinuissioners, shall te suU
j.!ct t. thi- pf-utfe nil J Uiiill prceej uuder the sau.e
riitu Aii, roijlitt ipy.jf!ii .ljii, 4 MwelMl san
,joi'i4t iffU now tqj,j ci u invest d by law for the
f'olk'ctK'! n( NuttJfce.tf'ater
?w; 'J ImI ihs si4 VHW'iiti-i(M.ar shall, at their first
uiiiithly tiut iU) t('M ir i-Wn iioii, p(iuta towuconsta
w! fh ll fa lil hikHee (ot, the hsidua .( the official
Miitf ertiilitfj wiou"! w ha vK4itt iduv iWlct. to ie
fih4'M I'y ih )M! n' 1 1 Me fwr i.N'h?vwr, ' Jl shall
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seven days in March in each and every year,t advertise for
four weeks in one or more newspapers published in said
town, or, for want of newspapers, in three or more public
places iherin, notifying nil persons sill jret lo pay a poll tax
said tawn, orby any 1 other "peivnrwhai'Teii'nbt "ixwdtng any free negro or the ownerof any sli? ve so remoTed, the exprn-i
three dollars on each bog; and in laying salt tax, wid corj- ; aes of bis or her removal, snppor' nnrsin and miMUwal aHetr-
tfi thrfateYWtWTFstdcd: within"theiitnrrsoftrw-tcmtm' Tte ci y illy 'or cVrmlnnlty- f
the first dayof Tebruaiy immediately preceding, pr who i5n'ce (0 suc, 'orders . 1
had been principally employed in any profession or voca
(ion in said town, tor three months or more immediately pre
ceuing the said first day of February, and all persons . whi
owneJ or were possessed of taxable property within said
town oi the said first day of February, to give in to him .be
fore the last day in said month of March, a list of their said
polls andtaxable property; md it shhU bo the duty "or all
sactt' perKn lo give in said list with uttbo alime,.
Said list shairTtate tTie number and locaP sitiiotion of the
lots or part of lots given in, with the value at which they
are assessed for taxatiou by the State; the nnmbcr of white
taxable polls, of taxable slaves, and of taxable (ree' negroes
residing on the said first day of Feburary on the lands of
persons giving in said lit. And the list so given in to the
town shall be sworn to before hiiii(and ho is hereby author
ized to administer the oath) by the persons giving in the
same. The said lists shall bo filed, and from the same the
said 'town clerk shall, within twenty days from the said last
day'of March, in each and every year, make, in a book to be
kept for that purpose, an alphabetical list of the persons and,
owners of property, liable to taxation, in. tho . sanje . manner
as lax lists aro now made out by law for collection of State
taxes. The said clerk shall als within twenty days from
the said last day ot March in each and every year, make out
to the best of his knowledge, in the same book., a list of tax
able. polls and of the owners of taxable property within said
town, who have failed to giro in a list fn tne manner and
within the time prescribed abo?e; and he shall state in 6aid
list, if he can ascertain the' suiji at whiclf the said property
is ossessed for taxatiou by the Sthte, and if the said clerk
cannot ascertain the sum at which sail property is assessed
for taxation by the State, he shall call oil two freeholders
of land in said town to value the said property, and they
shall be sworn by the Intendant of Police, or some justice
of the peace, to make a fair valuation; and the said clerk
shaH'annejT their valuation to said properly. That air per
sons who shall fail to give in lax list in ihe manner and
within the lime above prescribed, shall pay a double tax for
that year, (he amount of which double tax; shall be stated
by said clerk in his said list.
Sec. 19. That on or before the first day of May, fn each
and every ycr, the said board of commissioners shall cause
the said town clerk to make a fair copy of said list made
by him as aforesaid; and they shall deliver ihe said copy (o
the tax collector, if one shall have been appointed, and if
not, to the she riff of said county of Rowan, together with a
warrant, uuder their hands and seals, of those, .or a majority
nf them, authorizing and directing the tax collector or said
sheriff, to collect said taxes in said list mentioned, and to
mak return thereof and of said warrant on a certain day
therein to be mentioned; and the said lax collector or sheriff
I j hereby vested with all the powers and rights, for the
couVction of said taxes, which sheTiflS havrfb? the "Collection
of State taxes; and said tax list and warrant shall be of" the
nature of a Judgment and execution for the taxes therein
mentioned. . '.
Sec. 19. That the satu board of commissioners shall have
'jpowcr dmiualJy jo levy and TcaOse to be collected, Tin tTic
manner above prescribed, the following taxes, that is to say,
a tax not exceeding fitly cents on every- hundred 'dollars
value of all ihe lots and parcels of jots, with the improve
ments thereon, situated within the limits ot said town; a
poll tax wot exceeding two dollars on every poll liublo to pay
a poll tax to the Stater who harwided or been1 principally
employed within said town for three months immediately
prior i the first day o( February in each and every year;
and all taxes laid on polls and -real estate shall -bo in that
relative proportion; a tax on all dogs being kept in said town
uotexecediris; three dollars on each; a tax on all hog, whet b
er running at larie in sojj owt eoi,-orand
pens therein and wlieiherwiieil J)ypc reidin in
missioners may discriminate between hogs running ut large,
and hog confined in lots or pens; a tax on all utoops, steps,
porches or piazzas encroaching more than ihree ff t on ilie
public street or side M'alk; a lax on all itinerant merchants
and pedlars not exceeding five dollars for each hinerunt mer
chant or pedlar ; provided, no tax shall be imposed on por-
person or company of stage players, sleighlof hand perform
ers, ropo dancers, tumblers and wire dancer, or company
of circus riders or equest rian performers j and each and ev
ery person who shall exhibit artificial curiosities of any sort
or kind, except models of useful inventions, for a reward;
and every, person or compatiy who sliall exhibit natural it.
rnstties oi any kind or sort, a tax not exceeding twenty
dollars on each and every person or company who may so
play, perforin or exhibit within the limits of said; town, or
within one mile of the limits of said tewn; and said oomaii
sioners shall have power tomnke all necwairyf propprroles,
regnlations or ordinances for the giving in of the taxable
articles aforesaid, and the laying and collecting the taxes
thereon.
See. 20. That in case of a fire occurring In said town, it
his absence, two commissioners to order the blowing up,
pulling down or destroying any house or houses which he
os they shall deem oxpedient to ba blown up, pulled down
or destroyed, for the purpose of stopping the progress of ihe
fire; and no .person, or persons whatsoever shail lie Ik U lia
.jJyond44i
Sec. 2 1. kThat the said board of commissioners shall have
power to authorize, in such manner as ihcy may ordain,
the formation of one- or morevofunteer fire companies in
said town, to I attached to an e ncinc or engines whi" h may
belong lo the corporation thereof, or to one or more Individ
uals. They may enact by-jaws for ihj government of s.tid
eornpanies, which, when adopted by any company, the tuem.
hers thereof shall be 6v6rrled by tlio saiuo and bo ljaMe foi
(ho fines and penalties thereby incurred. Any volunteer
fire company so formed shall, be entitled to elect its own
officers, and the members thereof shall be exempt from mil
itary duty, except in ense of insurrection, invasion or of
draft in time of war.
Sec. 22, That the said board of commissioners shall have
power to organize a patrol for said town, either by hiring
persons to net as such and paying thbm out of the treasury of
(he said town, or by enrolling all the free white male in
habitants sa:d town, of the ageof eighteen ypars and "njv
wards, except such as they think proper to exempt by reason
of their poverty, joined with old age or infirmity, and divi
ding th era into classes of an equal number (not exceeding
five) lobe arranged alphabetioalJyf or drawn by lot from the
persons so enrolled, as they may dcemexpedfent. 'I ho said
board of commissioners shall have power to enact by Itws
for the government of said patrol so hired or appointed, and
to impose fines andpenaliiesforthe infringe mctirof onpucli
by-law so enacted, which lino and penalties, when ineurrcd
by uny minor, shall bo recovered from lha parent, guardian,
or master (if an apprentice) of such minor so offending.
That the patrol so hired or appointed by the said hoard of
commissioners, whilst on duty, shall have all the powers
which patrol now have by law, and for tho suppression of
riots and disturbances, and the piteservfttioii of the public
peace in said town, all the powers now vested in constables
as peace officers. - : '
Sec. 23. That the said boari f eon.misxi.Hicrs Jisll
have power by ordinance to prohibit all persons recently
from any place or places whore an infectious or contagious
diseases believed to exist or recently to havo existed, from
entering; and all goods and chattels fioni boingbronght from
said place or places within said town; and by ordinances to
fix a penalty for the breach of any of the, rnlcs established by
them upon this subject, which penalty shall bo recovered
from any and all persons, who are liable thereto, by action
of debt, in the name of the commUHoners for the Town of
Salisbury, in any court having competent jurisdiction.'Tlw
said commissioners shall also have power to tako such
other precau'ionary measures, lo prevent the introduotion of
infectious or contagions diseases in tho said town, as they
may deem expedient: Said commlsstiiner., upon the certi
ficate of a physician that a dangerous and infectious or con
tagious disease iiexisting in any lWiso withiii said town,
or in ense the occupier of any hnuso suspected lo con
fain such disease shall forbid or prevent ihe visit of a phy.
sician sent by said commissioners for the ptirpo of eiami
n'arion, shall, also have power to forbid and prevent air
persons from leavinz said house and its enclosure, and lake
such other steps to prevent communication with the person!
souiufected and to arrest the spread of lha disease, as they
may deem expedient, and to Impose such penalty or penal
ties Tor tne breach of their ordinance or ordinances made for
thatpu ifose, as they shall think proper., At any timcui-oniho
certificate of a phy sician fliat any slare or. free negr issirk
with a dangerous and infectious; or Contagions discaso with,
in said town, and that he can be removed withont endanger
ing his life, lha said commissioners shall have power to
nauso said alara or free1 negro to be removed and Confined
td some coti vetuant and propejp lace: wlthoul said town t and
slfa II cause him to be there attended lo as befits hii situation;
ni siiftit oe Mwiui m itiei Aq sue tor and recover from
dance during ihe-time of hist or her sickness, And also in
caseofhisor her deathjthe expenses of htuial, by writ, in y
.game .of tho commisioner for the tawn of Salisbury, iff any)
conrt having competent jurisdiction. And any nd all per
sons attempting to prevent, frrfiBting the removal rf said'
slawfTafTree persons from rnM Twn, shult'he Ijablp fo in
dicjhaejbt.'iA. the superior; cotut htlaui Joe. tb. coonty ,
-Howaii, and on 6nv ictiory punished us Cif n nysdenKvitlor.'
The said commissioners, hall have further power t Imost
such punishments on tjll stares W i'is negroes violating "
"this section nr any of iho ortincWlrTaid rommission
err made by virtue ilirffrinf, or Oil a like subject mailer aa
iheymayIeeni expeieat
onment or thirfy-niiic lashes. . ,
Sec. 21. Th;.t ( shall be the duty of said board of comi
missioners to keep tho streets of said town in., gopd order,
and itiey cUnll havo the power to. cause said strpeU tn br
drainetl graded and pared ftiid t ejjuse all nccnintilaiioii pj
dirt or filih to Lo removed from them. That said board
commissioners shall hayo control over the puMie welU ot
said town, and it shall ho their duty fa cause them lo be re
paired ad l;eptV:lean and in good condition, and proride new
Olios wliif.nii!rir " -'" ;' '"'''.'""-'r"t .
Sec. 2.V Tliat said board of commis.'ioners shiU hava
power to regulalo tho mannor ond terms on which bodies
may be interred in the public conjateryviihiiisul Town",
and t'J;eop the sjme in due order and repair; and Iso t
purchase, when they deem it proper, a pi?) of -land within:
they shall nlw have the paf to forbid n.y nnd M iHMt
men's of dead bodies wjthin tho limits of sdid town, when
ever they sluUl think it expedient sa to An.. ,
8ce-5iO. - That said board of commissioneri shall Iiava
power to acquire by purchase any piare or pieces of land
i public squares for said : town; oad uiso. , to acquire any
oieces by purchase or kiasa as sites fof markets, or oihcr bttiji
dhigsTirIid'''sfl"''sa . x .',., .--1:I.;'. . , ,. ..
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power to make, fretu, tjtna to iinv, rules and regulation
concerning the fjring of fira aruis within siid lownitha
pr.ee and speed at which horses may bb ridden and driret
through the streets of said tows, the arrangemeu's of stov ;
pipes in buUdings, and tlia iqode in udiich lie shall be kept
or carrieiOhraagit nti towir, so asitrpreventaccidenfl ffotis '
carelessness or negligence or Indiscretion; resnihua tho
manser in which powdr and other explosive audirilnra--mahte
suljstances miy bo kept and sold within said lown,
w regulate t ha manner in whk-lr dog may to kept fcj xaiii "J '
towiK lo prevent hoga from rnnoin j at large in said town,
whether said hogs shall fcolong to jj
of witlihonf "said town; 'to' proveut iwiijg. eoti.
fined in lofser peos in sujd town during ihe summer and
fall mouths; lo eauss all lots, colors, ptivios,, stables and oth
er places .of like character tu ba Visited and examined by h
town constable or fitheTpersons,at any and at all litres, f rom
iho firstJay irf-Jne to4he 4M'-4ay-W
and every year; stid upau Us written report, that any of tho
abovo places is ot are a nuisance, to cause4 Vy te; rdeir7lh,
toVn enstUo to have tho said place or places faa'nsd and
the uuisiuco abated; and tho said town countable shall
have power to enter the prcniais descrbod in the, said order
and to perform the injuustious of the smv, and lha 'iaid
commissioners shall haye the power to recover the' cxjciise '
of abating s.tid nuisance from the occupier orjowncr ofsajd
promises by SHit iu i uny court having coiiipeiant juriydic- ..
lion; said "fa ard of Coramisiouers shall havo funherpiwrf
to pFahiUUll trades ot occcnpaijous, which arc nuinnce
from Wing earilni on in said townor to regulato the min,
ncr in jvhjch Ihey shall be carried on, sols "t niiiTgato lha
nuisance, TUcy shall also have tho. pawcr to cause a
ponds or sunken lots in which water stands and stagnates,'
widun said tawn, la be dmiaod and filled up, and to recover
from the owner or occupfcr cf lho hinds or lolsTif.ircsaidi
the exponse of suoh drainage or firing up, which' expenut
shall bo a lien on tho lot or land so drained or raised; Prcs
rfJd ttfirtya, that the owners or occupiors of said lands or '
lots shall have had three months notice in writing, of lha
intention of said commissioner, and shall have during ;tyu
time neztceted or refused to drain or All up said ponds, or
sunken lots. They shall further have power tq causa alt
nuisances, whether arising from singna.it pools or poqds o
water, or from any other cause, without the limits of sak
town, but sufficiently near to affect the health of tho nhah
itantsofsaid lown lo be removed orabafod, and tQpay for
lha removing or abating of any such uuisaiicjj' aboyc (k
scribed out of any moneys in lha troasury of t-iid town.
Soe. 28. That 4id board of .coaunisjaancr. shall ha ve
power to regulate the manner in which prnvisions may bo
sold in tho streets and markets of said town, and to regulate
the manner in which the public markets and strepts in said
town rtay b used; and to nlBx penalties forihp breach of
their orfinanLcefLwhic. shall bo recovered in. the napte of 1 i
iha cbmmiBslonarf of th j town of Salisbury, before any
;eonrt'havtngeompetenljttfiadiioii
$ec. 29. That said bmrd of commissncM shall hava
power to mako rutes and regnlationf Cat Cufarcihg'llie or--.
derly conduct of slaves and free, negroes within aid town,
and to lmnoaa punishments, for thj hreach thcreiC-. : :
Sec. M. Thatjhe conrt or pics and quarter session fnf
tha County of Rowan shall grant a license to rotail spirit nons
finart by tha r,mU measurt wiJbiniSaid ibwp,-!? qafit'
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