1402

BALTIMORE CITY,

lodged and deposited with such person or persons as shall be

appointed by the mayor and corporation of the city to receive

the same ; and all acts of the legislature of the state of Mary-

land now in force, shall continue and remain in force, but the

powers and authorities thereby delegated to the commissioners

of Baltimore town, special commissioners and port-wardens, or

any other tribunal or persons, touching the police of Baltimore

town, or any of its internal concerns, shall be, and they are

hereby transferred and vested in the corporation hereby consti-

tuted, and the said corporation are hereby empowered to act

under such laws in the same manner, and as fully as if the

said corporation had been particularly named in such laws.

The mayor shall, in virtue of his office, have and exercise all

the jurisdiction and powers of a justice of the peace, except as

to the recovery of small debts, and may call upon any officer of

the city, entrusted with the receipt and expenditure of public

money, for a statement of his accounts, as often as he or the

corporation may conceive it necessary ; he shall see that the

ordinances are duly and faithfully executed, and shall report

annually to the corporation, during the first five days of their

session, a general state of the city, with an accurate account of

the money received and expended, to be published for the infor-

mation of the citizens. The mayor and corporation of the city

of Baltimore, the judges and clerks of the elections, and all

other officers of the city, before they enter upon the execution

of their respective offices, shall severally take the following oath

or affirmation : 4I do solemnly swear or affirm, as the case may

be, that I will faithfully execute the office of —— , to the best

of my knowledge and ability, without favour, affection or

partiality.'

Mode of

SEC. 11. And be it enacted, That the person or persons

collecting
taxes.

appointed to collect any tax imposed in virtue of the powers

granted by this act, shall have authority to collect the same by

distress and sale of the goods and chattels of the person

chargeable therewith ; but no sale shall be made, unless ten

days previous notice thereof be given, and if the tax imposed

shall be chargeable on any real property, and no goods or chat-

tels can be found liable to bo distressed therefor, the same may

be recovered by action of debt, or attachment, in Baltimore

county court, in which no imparlance shall be allowed.

See 1800, ch. 85, ante page 434.

City con-

SEC. 12. And be it enacted, That all and singular the powers

tains all
new made

granted to the said corporation, shall be, and are hereby de-

ground on

clared to extend to Deep Point, and to all wharves and other

the basin.

grounds heretofore made and extended into the basin of Balti-

more town, or which shall hereafter be made or extended into

the same, which shall be considered and taken as part of the