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terested persons, who shall not be residents of Baltimore city,

tion, mode

who shall immediately proceed to ascertain and mark out the

of fixing.

limits within said city so far as the same is in their judgment

thickly settled, built up or improved, and in which the usual

regulations for watching and lighting or cleaning the streets are

or ought to be applied ; and the mayor and city council of Balti-

more shall not have power to impose any direct tax upon the

property without the said limits, so to be ascertained as aforesaid.

.

SEC. 20. And be it enacted, That the said commissioners shall

have power to employ a surveyor or surveyors ; and shall return

Further

a plot of the limits, so to be ascertained, to the register of the

directions.

city, and one other plot to the clerk of Baltimore county, to be

by them recorded in their respective offices, authenticated copies

of which shall be evidence ; and the said commissioners shall

Expenses.

each receive six dollars per diem for the time in which they may

be necessarily employed in the execution of the provisions of

this act, which, together with the expenses of the survey shall

be paid by the levy court of Baltimore county, to be by the said

court levied upon the assessable property contained between

the limits to be ascertained as aforesaid, and the bounds pre-

scribed by the act to enlarge the bounds of Baltimore city.*

* By 1830, ch. 139, new limits of direct taxation are directed to be laid

out.

SEC. 21. And be it enacted. That the election made in Octo-

Election

ber last, for members of the second branch of the city council,

confirmed.

for the now wards shall be deemed valid. And that all acts and

parts of acts of assembly, which are supplied by, or are incon-

Repealing

sistent with the provisions of this act, be and the same are

clause.

hereby repealed.

A further SUPPLEMENT to the ACT,* entitled, an Act to erect Baltimore

*1796, ch.

Town, in Baltimore County, into a City, and to incorporate the Inhabi-

68.

tants thereof.— 1827, ch. 183.

SEC. 1. Be it enacted, by the General Assembly of Maryland,

Elections,

That the election for electors of mayor and members of the city

third Mon-

council, shall in future be held on the third Monday in October,

day in
October.

instead of the first Monday in October as heretofore.

SEC. 2. And be it enacted, That the treasurer of the western

School fund

shore be, and he is hereby directed to pay to the mayor and city

payable.

council of Baltimore, such distributive share of the school fund

as the city is, or may be entitled to, and which is now autho-

rized by law, to be paid to the commissioners of the school

fund for the city of Baltimore.

SEC. 3. And be it enacted, That the justices of the peace of

Justice of

the city of Baltimore, be, and they are hereby directed and re-

the peace
to report

quired, under a penalty of one hundred dollars, to make report

cases.

quarterly, on the first day of January, April, July and October,