| CHARLES RIDGELY, OF HAMPTON, ESQ. GOVERNOR.
board of electors constituted of Walter Dorsey, Charles W. Hanson,
Alexander Nisbet, Owen Dorsey, Robert Walsh, James A.
Buchanan and William Cooke, Esquires, the number of the said
commissioners shall be seven; and a majority of the said board of
electors, of the board of commissioners, of the judges of Baltimore
county court, and of the board constituted of the city commissioners
and port wardens, shall respectively be competent to
exercise all the powers, and to perform all the duties, granted or
imposed by this act, upon them respectively; and where legal disabilities
exist in the proprietors of property affected by this act,
they may be full represented by the persons authorised by law to
act for them in other cases; and before the said board of electors
shall proceed to act under the authority of this law, they shall take
an oath to appoint said commissioners without favour, affection or
partiality, to the best of their skill and judgment, which oath shall
be taken on or before the first Monday in March next, and the
first appointment of commissioners shall be made within ten
days thereafter; and any vacancy happening in said board, from
neglect to take such oath, or otherwise, shall be filled within ten
days thereafter, by the electors, or a majority of them, who shall
have so qualified; and the person so appointed shall within ten days
thereafter take the like oath, or his place shall be filled as aforesaid. |
1817.
CHAP. 71. |
12. AND BE IT ENACTED, That the commissioners
appointed under
this act, shall each take and subscribe the following oath or
affirmation, before some one of the said board of electors: " I,
A.
B. do swear, (or solemnly affirm) that I will execute the duties of
a commissioner in pursuance of an act, entitled, An act to provide
for the opening and extension of Pratt street in the city of Baltimore,
to the best of my skill and judgment, with diligence, integrity
and impartiality;" and if any person appointed a commissioner shall
neglect to take the said oath, (or make the said affirmation,) within
ten days after his appointment, he shall be presumed to have declined
it, and his place shall be supplied; and the said commissioners
shall each be entitled to six dollars per diem as a compensation
for his services. |
Oath of commissioners. |
13. AND BE IT ENACTED, That the act, entitled,
An act for the
opening and extending of Pratt-street in the city of Baltimore,
passed at November session eighteen hundred and eleven*, and the
several supplements thereto, be and the same are hereby repealed. |
Acts repealed.
* Ch. 164. |
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CHAP. LXXII.
A Supplement to the act (a), entitled, An act concerning
Crimes and
Punishments. Lib. TH. No. 5, fol. 568.
(a) November 1809, ch. 138.
See 1811, ch. 177, and December 1813, ch. 69. |
Passed Jan. 29, 1818. |
1. BE IT ENACTED, by the General Assembly
of Maryland, That
the Inspectors of the Penitentiary be hereafter styled the Directors
of the Penitentiary, and that they have power to appoint the keeper
of the penitentiary, and to remove him at pleasure, and also to
appoint at their pleasure, all such deputies and assistants to said
keeper, and such other officers and agents, as they may deem necessary
for the wholesome and effectual administration of the concerns
of the penitentiary, and also to hire and employ, at pleasure,
from time to time, such and so many guards as they may deem necessary, |
Directors to appoint
keeper and
assistants. |
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