CHARTERS.
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AN additional SUPPLEMENT to an ACT, entitled, an Act to erect Baltimore
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Town, in Baltimore County, into a City, and to incorporate the Inhabi-
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tants thereof.— 1805, ch. 108.
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WHEREAS, it is represented to this general assembly, by the
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Preamble.
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mayor and city council of Baltimore, that certain alterations in
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the charter of that city would be productive of considerable
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advantage, and they having prayed that the following amend-
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ments may be made thereto, and the same appearing reason-
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able ; therefore,
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SEC. 2. Be it enacted, by the General Assembly of Maryland,
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Voting at
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That the mode of voting at the city elections shall hereafter be
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city elec-
tions to be
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by ballot, in the same manner as delegates to the general assem-
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by ballot,
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bly now are elected, and that such elections shall commence
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&c.
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and close at the same times of the day as other elections do
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now open and close.
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SEC. 3. And, whereas by the act of incorporation of said
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Mayor, &c.
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city, the corporation are to provide for the safe keeping and
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to regulate
weights and
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preservation of the standard of weights and measures fixed by
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measures.
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congress, and for the regulating thereby all weights and mea-
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sures used within the city and precincts, and inasmuch as
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congress have not yet fixed any standard of weights and mea-
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sures, and as much fraud and imposition may be practised from
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a want of such standard, Be it enacted. That the mayor and
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city council shall have and exercise the right of regulating all
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weights and measures within the city and precincts aforesaid,
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by the present standard, until one shall be determined on by
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congress.
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SEC. 4. And be it enacted, That this act shall take effect and
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Commence-
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be in force on and after the first day of February next.
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ment.
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SEC. 5. And be it enacted, That all and every provision of
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Provisions
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the act to which this is a supplement, that is inconsistent with
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repealed.
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this act, be, and the same is hereby repealed.
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There were nine other sections in this act making certain other altera-
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tions in the charier of Baltimore, which were not to have effect unless
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assented to by a majority of all the members of the first branch of the city
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council in the first session after a new election, which not having been
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done, they are not of force, and are therefore omitted.
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A further additional SUPPLEMENT to the ACT, entitled an Act to erect
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Baltimore Town, in Baltimore County, into a City, and to incorporate
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the Inhabitants thereof.— 1807, ch. 152.
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WHEREAS, by the act to which this is a supplement, certain
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Preamble.
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principles are established, and qualifications of the members of
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the city council of the city of Baltimore, which experience hath
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proved to be inconvenient in their operation, and repugnant to
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the wishes of a great portion of the inhabitants of Baltimore,
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who have by their petition to this general assembly, prayed for
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an alteration of the same ; therefore,
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