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BALTIMORE CITY.
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Powers of
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SEC. 2. And be it enacted, That the corporation aforesaid
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the corpo-
ration.
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shall have full power and authority to enact and pass all ordi-
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nances necessary for paving and keeping in repair the streets,
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lanes and alleys, in the city aforesaid ; to make and keep in
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repair all necessary drains and sewers, as well in the city as
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precincts ; to tax any particular* part or district of the city, for
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paving the streets, lanes, or alleys therein, or for sinking wells
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or ereeting pumps, which may appear for the benefit of such
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particular part or district ; to establish and regulate guagers and
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their fees, and the fees of all the corporation officers ; to license
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and regulate brokers, sedan chairs, hackney coaches, or other
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carriages kept for hire, and employed within the city, and also
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draymen, wagoners, carters, porters and watermen residing and
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employed within the said city, with powers to make all neces-
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sary regulations respecting the same, to direct in future in what
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parts of the city buildings of wood shall not be erected ; to erect
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and provide magazines for the storage of all gunpowder brought
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Co the city or precincts, and to compel the same to be stored in
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said magazines, and to regulate the price of said storage ; to
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prevent the storage of naval stores, or other combustible matter,
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in such quantities or places within the city or precincts, as
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may he deemed dangerous to the safety of the same ; to erect
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or build houses of correction, hospitals or pest-houses, within
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or without the city, if necessary, and to pass all ordinances for
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the government of the same ; to make a new assessment of all
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real and personal property as often as it may be necessary ; to
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punish corporally any servant or slave guilty of a breach of any
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ordinance, unless the master or mistress pay the fine annexed
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to the offence ; to prevent the making new docks or canals
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without the consent of the corporation ; and to add to the city
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any of the adjoining lands, on the application and with the
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consent of the owners, and to lay off the necessary streets,
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lanes and alleys through the same, giving them the rights and
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privileges, and subjecting them to the laws and ordinances of
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the city.
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See 1817, ch. 148, sec. 18.
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Charter
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SEC. 3. And be it enacted, That an act of assembly, entitled,
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made per-
petual.
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an act to erect Baltimore town, in Baltimore county, into a city,
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and to incorporate the inhabitants thereof, passed at November
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* Ch. 68.
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session, seventeen hundred and ninety-six,* with this supple-
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Ordinances
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ment, shall be, and are hereby enacted and declared to be per-
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of the cor-
poration
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petual, except where altered by this act ; and that all acts and
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declared
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ordinances passed, or to be passed, by and under the authority
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valid.
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of the same, are hereby enacted and declared to be good and
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valid to all intents and purposes whatsoever.
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