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terested persons, who shall not be residents of Baltimore city,
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tion, mode
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who shall immediately proceed to ascertain and mark out the
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of fixing.
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limits within said city so far as the same is in their judgment
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thickly settled, built up or improved, and in which the usual
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regulations for watching and lighting or cleaning the streets are
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or ought to be applied ; and the mayor and city council of Balti-
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more shall not have power to impose any direct tax upon the
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property without the said limits, so to be ascertained as aforesaid.
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SEC. 20. And be it enacted, That the said commissioners shall
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have power to employ a surveyor or surveyors ; and shall return
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Further
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a plot of the limits, so to be ascertained, to the register of the
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directions.
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city, and one other plot to the clerk of Baltimore county, to be
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by them recorded in their respective offices, authenticated copies
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of which shall be evidence ; and the said commissioners shall
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Expenses.
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each receive six dollars per diem for the time in which they may
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be necessarily employed in the execution of the provisions of
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this act, which, together with the expenses of the survey shall
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be paid by the levy court of Baltimore county, to be by the said
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court levied upon the assessable property contained between
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the limits to be ascertained as aforesaid, and the bounds pre-
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scribed by the act to enlarge the bounds of Baltimore city.*
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* By 1830, ch. 139, new limits of direct taxation are directed to be laid
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out.
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SEC. 21. And be it enacted. That the election made in Octo-
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Election
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ber last, for members of the second branch of the city council,
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confirmed.
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for the now wards shall be deemed valid. And that all acts and
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parts of acts of assembly, which are supplied by, or are incon-
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Repealing
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sistent with the provisions of this act, be and the same are
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clause.
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hereby repealed.
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A further SUPPLEMENT to the ACT,* entitled, an Act to erect Baltimore
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*1796, ch.
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Town, in Baltimore County, into a City, and to incorporate the Inhabi-
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68.
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tants thereof.— 1827, ch. 183.
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SEC. 1. Be it enacted, by the General Assembly of Maryland,
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Elections,
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That the election for electors of mayor and members of the city
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third Mon-
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council, shall in future be held on the third Monday in October,
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day in
October.
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instead of the first Monday in October as heretofore.
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SEC. 2. And be it enacted, That the treasurer of the western
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School fund
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shore be, and he is hereby directed to pay to the mayor and city
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payable.
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council of Baltimore, such distributive share of the school fund
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as the city is, or may be entitled to, and which is now autho-
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rized by law, to be paid to the commissioners of the school
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fund for the city of Baltimore.
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SEC. 3. And be it enacted, That the justices of the peace of
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Justice of
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the city of Baltimore, be, and they are hereby directed and re-
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the peace
to report
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quired, under a penalty of one hundred dollars, to make report
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cases.
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quarterly, on the first day of January, April, July and October,
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