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thereof by the said city, within two years from and after the

passage of this act, thereafter as heretofore, the said sum of

twenty thousand dollars annually, shall be paid out of the

proceeds of duties arising from sales at public auction for the

purpose of deepening and improving the harbour of the city of

Baltimore, subject always to the control of the disposition of

the legislature.

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

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

tants thereof.— 1835, ch. 311.

Be it enacted, by the General Assembly of Maryland, That
in case of the sickness or necessary absence of the mayor of
Baltimore, the president of the first branch, or if no president
of the first branch, or in his absence from the city, or sickness,
the president of the second branch shall, ex oflicio, be mayor

In absence
of mayor,
the presi-
dent of the
first or
second
branch to
act.

of the city, during the continuance of such sickness or neces-

sary absence of the mayor, and shall have and possess all the

powers, and exercise the functions of mayor of the city of Bal-

timore, for the time being.

A SUPPLEMENT to the ACT, entitled, an Act relating to Turnpike Roads

in the City of Baltimore, passed at December session, eighteen hundred

and twenty-four, chapter one hundred and five. — MAY, 1835, ch. 381.

Be it enacted, by the General Assembly of Maryland, That

Act
extended.

the provisions of the act to which this is a supplement, shall

be extended to the cession of any turnpike road, or part of a

turnpike road, lying within the limits of the city of Baltimore,

when the mayor and city council agree, or where they have

agreed to accept such cession, and said turnpike road, or part of

a turnpike road, when ceded, shall be considered, and in all

respects be subject to the same regulations as unpaved public

streets, in reference to the having the same paved or repaved,

and in every other respect.

AN ACT relating to the Grading of Streets in the City of Baltimore.-—

MAY, 1835, ch. 390.

WHEREAS, doubts exist whether the corporation of Baltimore

Preamble.

possesses the power to fix and establish the grades of streets,

lanes and alleys, within the limits of said city, before the open-

ing of the same for public use ; therefore,

SEC. 1. Be it enacted, by the General Assembly of Maryland,
That the mayor and city council of Baltimore, be, and is hereby

Mayor and
city council
authorized

authorized to fix and establish the permanent grade of all the
streets, lanes and alleys, marked, located and laid out upon the

to grade,
&c.

plan of the said city, made and returned by virtue of the acts of
December session, of the year eighteen hundred and seventeen,

According
to the plans.

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