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BALTIMORE CITY.

Powers of

SEC. 2. And be it enacted, That the corporation aforesaid

the corpo-
ration.

shall have full power and authority to enact and pass all ordi-

nances necessary for paving and keeping in repair the streets,

lanes and alleys, in the city aforesaid ; to make and keep in

repair all necessary drains and sewers, as well in the city as

precincts ; to tax any particular* part or district of the city, for

paving the streets, lanes, or alleys therein, or for sinking wells

or ereeting pumps, which may appear for the benefit of such

particular part or district ; to establish and regulate guagers and

their fees, and the fees of all the corporation officers ; to license

and regulate brokers, sedan chairs, hackney coaches, or other

carriages kept for hire, and employed within the city, and also

draymen, wagoners, carters, porters and watermen residing and

employed within the said city, with powers to make all neces-

sary regulations respecting the same, to direct in future in what

parts of the city buildings of wood shall not be erected ; to erect

and provide magazines for the storage of all gunpowder brought

Co the city or precincts, and to compel the same to be stored in

said magazines, and to regulate the price of said storage ; to

prevent the storage of naval stores, or other combustible matter,

in such quantities or places within the city or precincts, as

may he deemed dangerous to the safety of the same ; to erect

or build houses of correction, hospitals or pest-houses, within

or without the city, if necessary, and to pass all ordinances for

the government of the same ; to make a new assessment of all

real and personal property as often as it may be necessary ; to

punish corporally any servant or slave guilty of a breach of any

ordinance, unless the master or mistress pay the fine annexed

to the offence ; to prevent the making new docks or canals

without the consent of the corporation ; and to add to the city

any of the adjoining lands, on the application and with the

consent of the owners, and to lay off the necessary streets,

lanes and alleys through the same, giving them the rights and

privileges, and subjecting them to the laws and ordinances of

the city.

See 1817, ch. 148, sec. 18.

Charter

SEC. 3. And be it enacted, That an act of assembly, entitled,

made per-
petual.

an act to erect Baltimore town, in Baltimore county, into a city,

and to incorporate the inhabitants thereof, passed at November

* Ch. 68.

session, seventeen hundred and ninety-six,* with this supple-

Ordinances

ment, shall be, and are hereby enacted and declared to be per-

of the cor-
poration

petual, except where altered by this act ; and that all acts and

declared

ordinances passed, or to be passed, by and under the authority

valid.

of the same, are hereby enacted and declared to be good and

valid to all intents and purposes whatsoever.