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BALTIMORE CITY.
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BALTIMORE CITY.
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LOCATED by 1729, ch. 12; July, 1732, ch. 14.
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The limits thereof are defined by 1745, ch. 9; 1747, ch. 21 ; 1753, ch.
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20; 1765, ch. 2; 1766, ch. 22; June, 1773, ch. 4; Nov. 1773, 21 ; 1781, ch.
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24; April, 1782, ch. 2; Nov. 1782, ch. 8; 1784, ch. 39; 1816, ch. 209,
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218.
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CHARTERS.
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AN ACT to erect Baltimore Town, in Baltimore County, into a City, and to
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Incorporate the inhabitants thereof. — 1796, ch. 68.
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Preamble.
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WHEREAS, it is found by experience, that the good order,
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health, peace and safety of large towns and cities, cannot be
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preserved, nor the evils and accidents to which they are subject,
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avoided or remedied, without an internal power, competent to
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establish a police and regulation, fitted to their particular
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circumstances, wants and exigencies ; therefore,
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Baltimore
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SEC. 2. Be it enacted, by the General Assembly of Maryland,
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town erect-
ed into a
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That Baltimore town, in Baltimore county, shall be, and is
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city.
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hereby erected into a city, by the name of the CITY OF BALTI-
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MORE, and the inhabitants thereof constituted a body politic and
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corporate, by the name of the Mayor and City Council of Balti-
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more, and as such shall have perpetual succession, and by their
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corporate name may sue and be sued, implead and be impleaded,
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grant, receive, and do all other acts as natural persons, and may
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purchase and hold real, personal and mixed property, or dis-
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pose of the same for the benefit of the said city, and may have
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and use a city seal, which may be broken or altered at pleasure.
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City divided
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The city of Baltimore shall be divided into eight wards, each
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into eight
wards.
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ward to contain as nearly as may be, an equal number of in-
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habitants ; the first division shall be made by seven respectable
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citizens, or a majority of them, to be appointed by the governor
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and council; and the corporation of the said city thereafter, from
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time to time shall cause a correct division of the said city to be
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made into eight wards, according to the actual number of in-
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habitants, which divisions shall be repeated as often as the in-
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crease or decrease of inhabitants in any ward or wards shall
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A further
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render it necessary, in order to a just representation ; and when
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division of
wards,
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the inhabitants shall increase to forty thousand, it shall then
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when to be
made
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be divided into fifteen wards, and for any additional increase of
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inhabitants, one new ward, only, shall be added for every twenty
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thousand, in order to preserve, as nearly as may be, an equal
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number of voters in each ward.
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See 1817, ch. 148, sec. 1.
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City coun-
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SEC, 3. And be it enacted, That the council of the city of
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cil to con-
sist of two
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Baltimore shall consist of two branches, one whereof shall be
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branches.
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denominated the first branch, the other the second branch ; the
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first branch shall consist of two members, of the most wise,
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