AUCTIONS.

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

and Powers now vested in Justices of the Peace for the City of Balti-

more, passed at December session, eighteen hundred and thirty-five,

chapter three hundred and sixty-six — 1838, ch. 409.

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

The origi-

That the act to which this is a supplement, be, and the same is

nal act
re-enacted.

hereby re-enacted and declared to be in full force and operation
so soon as this act shall be approved and accepted by the mayor

On being
accepted by

and city council of Baltimore, at any session of the city council

city of B.

of said corporation.

SEC. 2. And be it enacted. That the aldermen, by said act

Aldermen

authorized to be appointed, shall be nominated and appointed

to be ap-
pointed

by the governor, by, and with the advice and consent of the
senate, within sixty days after the corporation aforesaid shall,

within 60
days after
notification

Tinder its corporate seal, have certified to the governor its ap-

of accept'
ance.

proval and acceptance of said act; Provided however , that if the

said approval and acceptance shall be certified during the recess

If during:

of the legislature, the governor shall appoint said aldermen ,

recess.

subject to the limitations of the fifteenth section of the act of

Subject to

December session, eighteen hundred and thirty-six, chapter

limitation.

one hundred and ninety-seven, entitled, an act to amend the

constitution and form of government of the state of Maryland.
SEC. 3. And be it enacted, That this act shall not take

Not to have
effect till
Feb. 1840,

effect until the first day of February next.

ASSESSMENT.

By the charter, the corporation has the power to order an assessment of

real and personal property when they shall deem it consistent with the

public interest.

By 1821, ch. 252, sec. 4, ante page 1429, 'the various acts of assem-

bly directing the manner of collecting the county assessments shall be ex-

tended to the city of Baltimore.'

For the various acts above referred to, see 'Baltimore County,' word

'Assessment'

AUCTIONS.

AN ACT to regulate Sales by Public Auction — 1827, ch. 111.

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

Duty 1 per

That all goods, wares, merchandises and effects whatsoever,

cent on
sales.

which shall at any time, from and after the first day of April

next, be exposed to sale, at public auction or vendue, within the

city of Baltimore, by any auctioneer or other person, duly autho-

rized or appointed, as is herein after directed, and shaft be struck

off to the highest bidder, shall be subjected to a duty of one

dollar for every hundred dollars, of the value for which the

same shall be sold, and after die same rate, for any greater or

less sum, to be paid by the person who shall sell the same.

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