United States Statutes at Large/Volume 4/21st Congress/1st Session/Chapter 229
Chap. CCXXIX.—An Act to amend the charter of Georgetown.
Mode of advertising property for taxes.Be it enacted by the Senate and House of Representatives of the United States of America in Congress assembled, That public notice of the time and place of sale of any real property chargeable with taxes in Georgetown, in all cases hereafter, shall be given one in each week, for twelve successive weeks, in some one newspaper in the county of Washington, in which shall be stated the number of the lot or lots, or parts thereof, intended to be sold, and the value of the assessment, and the amount of the taxes due and owing thereon;Act of May 26, 1824, ch. 195, sec. 7. and that so much of the seventh section of an act of Congress, approved May twenty-sixth, one thousand eight hundred and twenty-four, as requires said notice to be given in the National Intelligencer, and in a newspaper in Alexandria, be, and the same is hereby repealed: Provided, That nothing in this act shall change the manner of giving notice of the sales of property owned by persons not residing in the District of Columbia.
Election of Mayor.Sec. 2. And be it further enacted, That on the fourth Monday of February next, and on the same day biennially thereafter, the citizens of Georgetown, qualified to vote for members of the two boards of the corporation of said town, shall, by ballot, elect some fit and proper person having the qualifications now required by law to be mayor of the corporation of Georgetown, to continue in office two years, and until a successor is duly elected, and the person having, at said election, which shall be conducted by judges of election appointed by the corporation, the greatest number of legal votes, shall be declared duly elected, and in the event of an equal number of votes being given to two or more candidates, the two boards in joing meeting, by ballot, shall elect the mayor from the persons having such equal number of votes.
Mayor pro tem.Sec. 3. And be it further enacted, That in the event of the death or resignation of the mayor, or of his inability to discharge the duties of his office, the two boards of the corporation, in joint meeting, by ballot shall elect some fit person to fill the office until the next regular election. Sec. 4. And be it further enacted, That the present mayor of Georgetown shall continue in office of mayor until the fourth Monday of February next.
Sec. 5. And be it further enacted, That so much of the present charter of Georgetown, as is inconsistent with the provisions of this act, be, and the same is hereby repealed.
Approved, May 31, 1830.