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sessed upon the said proprietors in proportion to the number of

Levy tax

feet held by them, respectively, in front or length as aforesaid,

on owners.

and shall be recovered by the said mayor and city council, in

like manner as taxes levied for paving public Streets in the said

city are recoverable.

A further SUPPLEMENT to an ACT, to erect Baltimore Town, in Baltimore

County, into a City, and to incorporate the Inhabitants thereof. — 1832,

ch. 206.

WHEREAS, the mayor and city council of Baltimore, by a

Preamble.

resolution approved the fourteenth day of February, eighteen

hundred and thirty-three, have declared it to be expedient to

obtain an amendment to the charter of the city, so that the

mayor may be immediately elected by the people without the

intervention of electors ; therefore,

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

Mayor to

That at all future elections for the mayor of the city of Balti-

be elected
by the

more, said officer shall be voted for immediately by the people,

people.

and not by electors as hitherto ; any thing in any act to the

contrary notwithstanding; and said election shall be conducted

in the same manner as is provided for by the act to which this

is a supplement, and the several acts which are supplementary

thereto, so far as it is consistent with or applicable to an election,

made in the manner herein provided.

SEC 2. And be it enacted, That in case of a vacancy in the

Case of

mayoralty, the president of the first branch of the city council,

vacancy.

or if no president of the first branch, or in his absence from the

city, that the president of the second branch shall immediately

order a new election, giving at least twenty days notice of the

New

same by advertisement in all the daily newspapers in said city ;

election.

and the said president of the first branch of the city council,

shall be ex officio, mayor until a new election.

By 1835, ch. 311, in case of the sickness or absence of mayor, the pre-

sident of first, or in his absence, the president of second branch shall exer-

cise the powers and functions of mayor.

AN ACT for Repaving of Streets, Lanes and Alleys, in the City of Balti-

more.— 1833. ch. 40.

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

Authority

That from and after the passage of this act, the mayor and City

granted to
repave, &c.

council of Baltimore shall have full power and authority, to

repave, and renew the curb stones, on any street, lane or alley,

or any part of any street, lane or alley, in the city of Baltimore,

whenever the owners of two-thirds of the property on such

street, lane or alley, or any part of such street, lane or alley,

shall make application in writing to the mayor, to have the

same repaved, and the curb stones renewed; the expense of

such repaving and renewal of curb stones, shall be paid in