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JOHN H. STONE, Esquire, Governor.
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1796. |
they shall appoint their respective presidents, who shall preside at
all their sessions,
and shall vote on all questions; they shall settle their rules of proceedings,
appoint
their own officers, regulate their respective fees, and remove them
at pleasure;
they shall judge of the elections, returns and qualifications, of their
own
members, and may, with the concurrence of three fourths of the whole,
expel
any member for disorderly behaviour, or mal-conduct in office, but
not a second
time for the same cause; they shall keep a journal of their proceedings,
and enter
the yeas and nays on any question, resolve or ordinance, at the request
of any
member, and their deliberations shall be public, they shall ascertain,
by ordinance,
the compensation of their services, which shall not be increased during
their continuance in office; the second branch of the city council
shall nominate
two citizens to each office which may arise under this act, and the
ordinances of
said corporation, and the mayor shall appoint and commission one of
said nomination
to fill the respective offices during pleasure; and the said mayor
shall appoint
proper persons to fill up all vacancies during the recess of the session,
to
hold such appointment until the ensuing session; the city council shall
settle the
salary of the first mayor at their first session of the second year,
and the salary of
the succeeding mayors shall be settled previously to their appointment;
all ordinances
or acts passed by the city council shall be sent to the mayor for his
approbation,
and when approved by him, shall become a law, and shall then be
obligatory upon the several courts and justices of the peace of Baltimore
county,
sheriff and constables within the limits of the city of Baltimore,
and all other
persons within the limits of said city, to every intent and purpose,
as the acts of
the general assembly of Maryland, provided the said laws or ordinances
shall not
contain any thing repugnant to the constitution or laws of this state,
or the
United States; but if the said mayor shall not approve of such ordinances
or act,
he shall return the same within five days, with his reasons in writing
therefor,
and if three fourths of both branches of the city council, on reconsideration
thereof, approve of the ordinance or law, it shall then be an ordinance
or law,
to all intents and purposes; and if any ordinance or law shall not
be returned by
the mayor within five days after it shall have been presented to him,
the same
shall be a law, in like manner as if he had approved it, unless the
city county,
by their adjournment, prevent its return. |
CHAP.
LXVIII.
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IX. And be it
enacted, That the corporation aforesaid shall have full power and
authority to enact and pass all laws and ordinances necessary to preserve
the health
of the city; prevent and remove nuisances; to prevent the introduction
of contagious
diseases within the city, and within three miles of the same; to establish
night watches or patroles, and erect lamps; to provide for a general
survey of the
city and precincts; to ascertain, when necessary, the boundaries and
location of
streets, lots, lanes and alleys thereof; to establish new streets,
lanes and alleys,
with the consent of the proprietors of the ground, and to alter and
to streighten
streets, lanes and alleys, with the consent of the proprietors of the
lots or houses
adjoining such streets, lanes and alleys; to provide for the preservation
of the navigation
of the bason, and Patapsco river within the limits of the city of Baltimore,
and four miles thereof; for cleaning and deepening the bason and docks,
and for
regulating the station, anchoring and mooring of vessels; but no tax,
direct or indirect,
shall be laid on that part of Baltimore called Deptford Hundred for
the preservation
of the navigation of the bason, for for cleaning or deepening the bason
or
docks therein; to provide for licensing and regulating auctions and
pawnbrokers
within the city and precincts thereof; to restrain or prohibit gaming,
and to provide
for licensing, regulating or restraining, theatrical or other public
amusements within
the city or precincts; to erect and repair bridges; to pave and keep
in repair all
necessary drains and sewers, and to pass all regulations necessary
for the preservation
of the same; to establish and regulate inspections within the city,
subject to the future
acts of the general assembly; to regulate and fix the assize of bread;
to provide
for the safe keeping and preservation of the standard of weights and
measures
fixed by congress; and for the regulating thereby all weights and measures
used
within the city and precincts; to regulate party walls and partition
fences; to
erect and regulate markets; to provide for licensing and regulating,
(with the
consent of the Maryland insurance fire company,) for sweeping of chimnies, |
Corporation
to pass laws,
&c. |
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