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said city ; and the said corporation may provide for the exercise

of such powers in the same manner as if the said wharves and

reclaimed lands were originally condemned as part of the said

town.

SEC. 13 And be it enacted) That an act of assembly, passed

Watch act

at November session, seventeen hundred and eighty-four, enti-

perpetual.

tled,* 'an act for the establishment and regulation of a night

* Ch. 69.

watch' and the erection of lamps in Baltimore town, in Balti-

more county,' shall be and is hereby enacted and declared to

be a perpetual law, subject, nevertheless, to such alterations,

amendments and revisions, as may hereafter be enacted and

ordained by the corporation aforesaid, or the legislature of this

state.

SEC. 14. Relates to the committee of health's expenses for 1796.

SEC. 15. This act to continue in force until the first day of

Continu-

September, seventeen hundred and ninety-eight, and the end of

ance.

the next session of assembly which shall happen thereafter.

This act and the supplement following are made perpetual, except where

altered by the legislature, by 1797, ch. 54.

A SUPPLEMENT to the ACT, entitled, an Act to erect Baltimore Town,

in Baltimore County, into a City, and to incorporate the Inhabitants

thereof.— 1767, ch. 54.

SEC. I. Be it enacted, by the General Assembly of Maryland,

Elections

That the nnxt election for members of the first branch of the

when held

city council shall be held on the third Monday in January,

for mem-
bers of the

seventeen hundred and ninety-eight; and that the election next

first branch.

thereafter shall be held on the first Monday of October, in the

same year; and that every succeeding election for members of

the first branch of the city council shall be held on the first

Monday in October, in each and every year for ever thereafter:

that the next election for electors of the mayor, and of the

members of the second branch of the city council, shall be

For electors

held on the first Monday in October, in the year seventeen hun-

of the
mayor and

dred and ninety-eight; and every succeeding election for elec-

second

. tors of the mayor and of the members of the second branch of

branch.

the city council, shall be held on the first Monday in October

in every second year thereafter. And that the said electors of

the mayor and of the members of the second branch of the

city council shall meet on the first Monday in November, in the

year seventeen hundred and ninety-eight, and on the first Mon-

day in November, in every second year thereafter, for the pur-

Time of

pose of electing a mayor and members of the second branch of

electing
mayor.

the city council, any thing iu the original act, to which this is

a supplement, to the contrary notwithstanding.

Election of the mayor and second branch, altered by supplement in 1807,

ch. 152, and 1827, ch. 183, and electors abolished by 1832, ch. 206.