| 1816.
CHAP. 209.
* 1798, ch. 115. |
LAWS OF MARYLAND.
of the senate of this state, sheriff of Baltimore county, and
elector of the president and vice president of the United States,
for the city of Baltimore, and as part thereof, and not otherwise;
and that for the purpose of holding such elections in the said city
as hereby enlarged, the same shall be forthwith divided into eight
election districts, pursuant to the act*, entitled, An act to alter and
abolish and repeal, certain parts of the constitution and form of
government of this state as are herein mentioned; for the making
of which division the mayor and city council of Baltimore shall
forthwith appoint five commissioners, two of whom at least shall
be taken from the additions to the said city made by this act, and
who shall forthwith proceed in such manner, and under such regulations,
as the said mayor and city council shall prescribe, to
lay off and establish the said eight election districts, and to fix and
establish the places of holding elections therein respectively; and
all such elections shall be held at the said places in the manner,
and subject to the rules, regulations and provisions, heretofore
made by law concerning elections in the city of Baltimore, except
so far as they are hereby altered.
See 1805, ch. 97. |
New wards subject
to the authority of
the mayor and city
council. |
6. AND BE IT ENACTED, That the said new wards
to be laid
off by virtue of this act, shall in all respects, and to all intents
and purposes, be subject to the powers, jurisdiction and authority,
vested, or to be vested, by law, in the mayor and city council of
Baltimore, and in the corporation of the said city, and shall be
in all respects taken and considered as parts of the said city and
corporation, Provided nevertheless, that no part of the city tax
of
two dollars in the hundred pounds shall be imposed in any real or
personal property within any of the said wards (a), until there
shall be at least five dwelling houses on each acre of land; that is
to say, that each acre of such land, and the property thereon, shall
be wholly exempted from the said tax till there shall be erected on
such acre five dwelling houses, nor shall any tax for the making or
repairing of the public roads or bridges of the county, out of the
limits aforesaid, be levied upon the property within those limits.
(a) By 1817, ch. 148, the limits
of the city to be ascertained within which no
direct tax to be imposed. |
New places to be
fixed for holding
elections in 1st,
and 4th districts in
county.
† 1799, ch. 50. |
7. AND BE IT ENACTED, That the five following
persons, to wit:
John Beall Howard, Joseph Ford, Caleb Merryman, Labon Welsh
and Robert Lyon, shall be and are hereby appointed commissioners
to ascertain and fix new places for holding elections in the first
and fourth election districts of Baltimore county respectively, instead
of the places heretofore fixed and established for that purpose
in the said districts, and shall proceed in the execution of their duty,
in the same manner and under the like penalties, as are prescribed
in the act†, entitled, An act to regulate elections, for the
commissioners appointed by virtue thereof. |
| Repeal. |
8. AND BE IT ENACTED, That all acts, and parts
of acts, inconsistent
with the provisions of this act, shall be, and are hereby
repealed. |
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Passed Feb. 3, 1817. |
CHAP. CCX.
An Act for the benefit of Persons Hiring or Renting Stoves.
Lib. TH.
No. 5, fol. 365. |
Hired stoves exempted
from execution. |
1. BE IT ENACTED, by the General Assembly
of Maryland, That
where any stove or stoves now are, or may hereafter be, rented or
hired to any person or persons within this state, the same shall be |
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