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session of the court to which they are brought) and executions

may issue thereon as in the county court. And in the event of

Appeals to

an appeal to the court of appeals, in any such case the same

court of
appeals.

shall stand for argument at the first term to which such appeal

shall be prosecuted.

SEC. 7. And be it enacted. That the mayor and city council

Power to

of Baltimore may, for the purpose of promoting or effecting any

issue stock.

great or permanent improvements, issue slock in certificates of

an amount not less than one hundred dollars each, transferable

only in person or by letter of attorney, on books to be kept for

that purpose in the office of the register of the city of Baltimore;

or borrow money upon the credit of the corporation ; Provided,

Limitation.

the amount of stock so created and issued or money borrowed,

shall at no one time exceed one million of dollars ; and it shall

be lawful for any of the banks in this state to purchase, hold

Banks may

and dispose of any such stock, or make any such loans. And

hold stock.

the said mayor and city council shall possess all powers neces-

sary or proper for preventing nuisances, preserving order, secur-

ing property and persons from violence, danger or destruction,

protecting the public and city property, rights and privileges

General

from waste or encroachments, and for promoting the great inte-

powers.

rests and insuring the good government of the city, not repug-

nant to the rights of the citizen, nor inconsistent with the pro-

visions of any act of the general assembly of this state, or the

constitution thereof.

SEC. 8. And be U enacted, That all the powers, privileges,

Precincts

rights, and property, vested in or granted to the commissioners

and market-
house com-

of the western precincts, the commissioners of the eastern pre-

missioners'

cincts of Baltimore, or their respective officers, the commis-

power
transferred.

sioners of the western precincts market, or the commissioners

of the eastern precincts market, shall be and the same are

hereby vested in the mayor and city council of Baltimore, as

fully and for the like purposes, as the same were possessed by

the above named boards, or officers respectively; and that the

acts entitled, 'an act to appoint commissioners to grade and

level the several streets, squares, lanes and alleys in the pre-

cincts of Baltimore;' and 'an act to appoint commissioners to

grado, level, pave and repair the streets, squares, lanes and

alleys in that part of the eastern precincts of Baltimore therein

described, and for other purposes,' and the several supplements

to those acts, be, and the same are hereby repealed, except so

far as relates to rights acquired under the said boards, and to

Acts

suits now depending in which any of the said commissioners

repealed.

are parties, or their remain contracts unexecuted, or claims

unliquidated, in which they are respectively interested; for the

Saving.

completion of which the mayor and city council shall provide.

Jones' fails

SEC. 9. And be it enacted, That the mayor and city council

to be im-

of Baltimore be, and they are hereby authorized and empow-

proved.