| CHARLES RIDGELY, OF HAMPTON, ESQ. GOVERNOR.
straight line to the end of the aforementioned six hundred and forty
perch line. |
1816.
CHAP. 209. |
2. AND BE IT ENACTED, That all the provisions
of the act*,
entitled, " An act to erect Baltimore-town, in Baltimore county,
into a city, and to incorporate the inhabitants thereof." and of all
the acts supplementary and in addition to the said act (a), shall be
and hereby are extended and applied to the present precincts of
the city of Baltimore, and the part of Baltimore county included
within the bounds and limits described in the preceding section,
and to the inhabitants thereof; Provided always, that nothing in
this act shall be construed to prevent any of the turnpike road
companies heretofore incorporated, from keeping up any gate or
gates now established, or from establishing others as authorised
by law, before the passing of this act, or from receiving and collecting
the tolls heretofore allowed and established.
(a) 1803,
ch. 93; 1805, ch. 108, and 1807, ch. 152. See 1817, ch. 148. |
Provisions of certain
acts extended
to the precincts.
* 1796, ch. 68. |
3. AND BE IT ENACTED, That the mayor and city
council of
Baltimore shall be, and hereby are authorised and required, to
cause the metes and bounds described in the first section of this
act, to be forthwith surveyed and distinctly marked, and suitable
boundary stones, marked as boundaries of the said city, to be placed
at the beginning and at the termination of each line, and boundary
stones marked as aforesaid, and not at a greater distance than fifty
perches from each other, to be placed on all the lines which are not
in the water, and do not run with some natural boundary; and that
the said mayor and city council shall cause two plots of the said
survey to be made and duly certified, one of which to be returned
to, and recorded in, the office of the clerk of Baltimore county
court, among the land records of the said county, and the other
shall be returned to, and recorded in, the office of the mayor of the
said city, and copies of the said plots, duly certified by the keepers
of the said records for the time being respectively, and under their
respective seal of office, shall be admitted as evidence in all courts
of justice within the state. |
Metes and bounds
to be surveyed and
marked. |
4. AND BE IT ENACTED, That the mayor and city
council of
Baltimore shall cause the precincts of the said city, and that part
of Baltimore county which is by this act annexed thereto, forthwith
to be divided and laid off into such numbers of new wards as
to give to each, as nearly as may be, the same number of inhabitants
with the present wards respectively, and such division shall
from time to time alter and correct as is provided by law in relation
to the present wards; and that for each new ward there
shall be two members of the first branch of the city council, and
one member of the second branch, which shall be increased in number
accordingly, and one elector of mayor, all of whom shall be
elected at the same time, and in the same manner, with the electors
and members elected by the present wards, and the like qualification
of the voters and persons elected.
See 1817, ch. 148. |
Precincts to be
laid off into wards. |
5. AND BE IT ENACTED, That all inhabitants
of the precincts
and territory by this act annexed to the city of Baltimore, being
qualified for members of the house of delegates of this state, electors
of the senate of this state, and electors of the president and
vice president of the United States respectively, shall vote in all
elections of members of the house of delegates of this state, electors |
City to be divided
into eight election
districts. |
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