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who shall extend the limits of direct taxation within the said

city, so far as the same is settled, built or improved, and in

which the usual regulations for watching and lighting or cleans-

ing the streets are .or ought to be applied, and the said mayor and

city council of Baltimore shall have full power to assess, levy

and collect, any direct tax within such limits, when so ascer-

tained and extended ; Provided, that the commissioners who

Proviso.

may be appointed as aforesaid, shall be disinterested persons,

and non-residents of the city of Baltimore, and not holders of

property therein.

SEC. 2. And be it enacted, That from and after the passage

Ordinances.

of this act, the mayor and city council of Baltimore, shall be,

and they are hereby empowered, to pass all ordinances which

they may deem necessary to carry into effect, and not inconsis-

tent with the provisions of the preceding section.

SEC. 3, 4. Repealed by 1831, ch. 214.

SEC. 5. And be it enacted. That all acts, or part of acts, in-

Repeal.

consistent with, or contrary to the provisions of this act, be, and

the same are hereby repealed.

A SUPPLEMENT to the ACT, entitled, an additional Act relating to the

City of Baltimore, passed at December session, eighteen hundred and

thirty, chapter one hundred and thirty-nine. — 1831, ch. 214.

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

Sections

That the third and fourth sections of the act, to which this is a

repealed.

supplement, be and the same are hereby repealed.

SEC. 2. And be it enacted, That the mayor and city council

Corpora-

of Baltimore, shall be and they are hereby authorized and

tion autho-
rized to

empowered to borrow such sum or sums of money, and to such

borrow.

amounts, not exceeding one million of dollars, for the use and

improvement of the city of Baltimore, and of the property of the

corporation, and to aid in the construction of any useful public

work authorized by any law of the state, or ordinance of the

said mayor and city council, and on such terms as they, from

time to time, shall deem proper and necessary, any thing in any

former law to the contrary notwithstanding.

SEC. 3. And be it enacted, That the mayor and city council

Authorized

of Baltimore, shall have full power, from time to time, to pro-

to ascertain
the valua-

vide by ordinance, for the ascertainment and valuation of all

tion.

property, real and personal, within the said city, and all kind of

estate and interest in any such property, liable to taxation under

To provide

the constitution and laws of this state, and to provide for the

for col-
lecting.

collection of all such taxes as they are authorized by law, and

shall deem necessary, to impose on the same.