CHARTERS.

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SEC. 2. And be it enacted, That all taxes which are now or

Levy

may hereafter be required or authorized by law to be raised on

thereon.

the assessable property of the city of Baltimore, shall be levied

and collected upon the assessment so to be made; Provided

nevertheless, that the mayor and city council of Baltimore, shall

not in any one year impose and levy a greater assessment than

Limitation

two hundred thousand dollars for the purpose of defraying the

$200,000.

corporation expenses, exclusive of all others.

See notes to sec. 4, of 1817, ch. 148, ante page 1409.

AN additional SUPPLEMENT to the ACT, entitled, an Act relating to the City

of Baltimore, passed at December session, eighteen hundred and seven-

teen —1833, ch. 182.

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

In division

That where real estate within the city of Baltimore has been or

of real
estate.

may be hereafter divided, according to law, among heirs, lega-

tees, joint tenants or tenants in common, entitled to the same,

and such division calls for any of the streets, lanes or alleys, or

any part or parts thereof, as surveyed and laid off under the act

of assembly, to which this is a supplement, or reserve any of the

said streets, lanes or alleys, or any part or parts thereof as open,

and divides such estate with reference thereto, that the mayor

and city council of Baltimore, be, and they are hereby autho-

rized, on the application of one or more persons interested in

the ground to be taken on such application, to adopt and sanc-

tion by ordinance the principle upon which such division was

had, and to open any of the said streets, lanes or alleys, or any

part or parts thereof, in the said division reserved and recog-

nized ; Provided, that the ground over which the said street,

Proviso.

lane or alley, or part thereof passes, be at the time of such ap-

plication in fact unenclosed and unimproved ; Provided, that at

least one week's notice in the newspapers of said city, (the costs

of the advertisements to be paid by the applicants,) be given of

such application before any such ordinance shall pass.

SEC. 2. And be it enacted, That all or any of the streets, lanes
or alleys, or any part or parts thereof, opened in the manner

Declared
public
highways.

herein before directed, be and are hereby declared to be pub-

lic highways, and to be subject to the laws, regulations and

ordinances applicable to public streets, lanes or alleys, or part or

parts thereof, in the city of Baltimore.

A SUPPLEMENT to the ACT, entitled, an Act relating to the city of Balti-

more, passed at December session, eighteen hundred and seventeen,

chapter one hundred and forty-eight.— 1834, ch. 277.

SEC, 1. Be it enacted, by the General Assembly of Maryland,
That in all cases of applications to the mayor and city council

Three com-
missioners;
powers.

of Baltimore, by virtue of the act to which this is a supple-

ment, for opening, extending, widening, or straightening, any