PASSENGERS, FOREIGN.

establishment and regulation of a night watch, and the' erection
of lamps, in Baltimore town, in Baltimore county, passed at

foot

November session, seventeen hundred and eighty-four,* be,
and the same is hereby repealed, and the surplus of thfc mo-
neys collected from Baltimore town fof ordinary and retailefs
licenses, in virtue of said section, shall hereafter be placed in
the treasury of the western shore, subject (o the appropriation
of the legislature.
The other sections are inapplicable to Baltimore City/

PASSENGERS, FOREIGN.
AN Act relating to the Importation of Passengers. — 1832^ ch.303;
See ante page 1096.

A SUPPLEMENT to the Act, entitled, an Act relating to the Importation of
Passengers.— 1833, ch. 177.

*Ch 69.

WHEREAS, doubts are entertained whether tinder the act to
which this is a supplement, the mayor and city council of Bal-
timore may pay over to the German Society of Maryland, and
the Hibernian Society of Baltimore, a part of any other sums
than those received under said act, for the forfeitures thereby
provided for ; And whereas, it was the design of said act, to en-
title said societies to a proportion of all sums received there-
under, for or on account of the passengers therein mentioned,
and that it is proper that a proportion of such sums should
be secured to said societies ; therefore,

Preamble

Be it enacted, by the General Assembly of Maryland, That
the mayor and city council of Baltimore, be, and hereby is
authorized and required to pay over to the said societies, two-
fifths of as well all sums that have been or shall hereafter be
received from or on account of passengers aforesaid, for and on
account of the assessment of one dollar and fifty cents, for each
passenger provided for in the act to which this is a supplement,
as of all other suiris now deceived, or to be hereafter received,-
for or on account of forfeitures, or otherwise, by the mayor and
city council of Baltimore, under and by virtue of said act, in
the proportions between said societies respectively, as follows;

Payment
over di-
rected.

that is to say : as to the German Society, in proportion to the
amounts received as aforesaid, from or on account of German
and Swiss passengers, and as to the Hibernian Society, in pro-
portion to the amounts received from or on account of Irish
passengers; and that such payments as td all future accruing
receipts aforesaid, shall be made annually hereafter.

A further SUPPLEMENT to the ACT, entitled, an Act relating to the Impor-
tation of Passengers.— 1834, ch. 84.
See ante page 1134.
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