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BALTIMORE CITY.

chapter one hundred and forty-eight, and it shall be the duty of

On appli-

the mayor and city council of Baltimore, to cause such grades

cation.

to be fixed and established whenever application shall be made

therefor, by persons owning more than one-half of the ground

fronting on the streets, lanes or alleys, respectively required to

be graded, although such streets, lanes or alleys, shall not have

been opened, nor any application for That purpose made.

May fix and

SEC. 2. And be it enacted, That it shall be lawful for the

establish
grades.

mayor and city council of Baltimore to provide from time to
time, by general ordinance, for the fixing and establishing such

grades, through the city commissioners or other persons to be

appointed or employed as such ordinance may direct, and ou

application to such commissioners or persons, and notice of

such application as may by the said ordinance be prescribed,

and the expenses of such grading shall be paid as such ordi-

nance shall direct.

AN ACT for the promotion of Internal Improvements — MAY, 1835, ch. 395.

The preceeding sections contained concessions and stipulations, con-

nected with these works.

Mayor and

SEC. 10. And be it enacted. That the mayor and city council

city council
of Balti-

of Baltimore may subscribe for and acquire such part of the

more may

capital stock of the Maryland Canal Company, and the Balti-

subscribe
for all un-

timore and Ohio Rail Road Company, as shall not be sub-

subacribed
shares in
Maryland

scribed by individuals, after books shall have been opened for
that purpose, as directed by their charters, and also to acquire

Canal Co.
and Bait.

at any time by purchase from individuals, such stock as may

and Ohio

have been taken or subscribed for, or at any lime owned by in-

rail roud
company.

dividuals, and to pa'y for the same by money procured on loan

Or pur-

or otherwise-, and provide for the payment of the principal and

chase from
individuals.

interest on such loan or loans as they shall find necessary and

deem proper; Provided, that neither the president and directors

of the said Maryland Canal Company or stockholders therein,

Reducing
toll forbid.

shall so reduce the tolls on said canal, as to prevent the pay-
ment to the state of Maryland, of six per cent, per annum, upon

the state's stock in said canal.

AN ACT to authorize the Mayor and City Council of Baltimore to extend

the limits of Diiect Taxation— 1838, ch. 168.

Authority
to levy tax.

Be it enacted, by the General Assembly of Maryland, That
the mayor and city council of Baltimore, be, and they are

hereby authorized and empowered, in addition to any power of

taxation heretofore vested in them, to levy upon the assessable

property within the limits of the city of Baltimore, and collect

by tax according to the usual mode of raising money by taxa-

tion, in the said city of Baltimore, any sum or sums which may

be necessary to pay and discharge the principal and inteiest of