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LAWS OF MARYLAND.
shall have been made, of the time and place of which sales ten
days previous notice shall be given in writing to the persons
chargeable with such payments, if resident in the city of Baltimore,
or left at their places of abode, and the property, and upon
such sales the collector aforesaid shall make conveyances of such
estate or interest as the persons chargeable with such assessment
may have held in the property sold to the purchasers thereof, and
the amount of the valuation of sid lot shall be paid over by the
said collector to the orphans court of Baltimore county, to be invested,
under the direction of said court, in such stock or funds as
they may deem most beneficial for those now interested in the said
lot, and to be held and enjoyed by them in the same rights and
benefits as they now hold the lot aforesaid. |
Obstructions to be
removed.
Proviso. |
3. AND BE IT ENACTED, That when the said valuation
shall
have been so paid over to the orphans court aforesaid, and not before,
the city commissioners of Baltimore shall proceed to have all
obstructions or buildings removed from the said lot, and the same
shall be and remain a public highway for ever thereafter; Provided
however, that if the mayor and city council of Baltimore shall at
their next session determine that a fire-engine house might be
erected upon the said lot, without impeding or obstructing the public
convenience, and shall then permit the same to be done, in such
case the valuation aforesaid shall be paid by the city, and not assessed
or collected as provided by this act. |
| Acts repealed. |
4. AND BE IT ENACTED, That the several acts
of assembly
heretofore passed relating to the opening or making public said
lot, be and the same are hereby repealed.
See 1807, ch. 100; Nov. 1812, ch. 119; and 1816, ch. 161. |
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Passed Jan. 31, 1818. |
CHAP. LXXXVI.
An Act for the preservation of Buoys in the Patapsco River and
Chesapeake Bay. Lib. TH. No. 5, fol. 580. |
Persons convicted
of injuring buoys
to be confined in
penitentiary. |
BE IT ENACTED, by the General Assembly of Maryland,
That
every person, his or her aiders and abettors, who shall be convicted
before any court exercising criminal jurisdiction at the place
where the offender may be arrested, or may reside, of the crime of
stealing, cutting away, or in any manner wilfully injuring, any of
the buoys, their mooring claims and stones, which are now moored,
or may hereafter be moored, in the Patapsco river, or in the
Chesapeake bay, by the direction of the insurance companies of
the city of Baltimore, shall be sentenced to undergo a confinement
in the penitentiary-house of the state of Maryland, for a period
not exceeding seven years, at the discretion of the court who may
try the offence, and the persons sentenced as aforesaid shall be
kept therein, and in all things be treated and dealt with as other
criminals, under the like sentences, in the penitentiary aforesaid. |
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Passed Jan. 31, 1818. |
CHAP. LXXXVII.
An Act to provide for the appointment of Trustees of the Poor-House
of Baltimore County. Lib. TH. No. 5, fol. 581.
A Supplement, 1818, ch. 122.
See Nov. 1773, ch. 30; 1797, ch. 100; 1799, ch.
39; and 1805, ch. 34, s. 4 and 5. |
Governor and
council to appoint
trustees. |
1. BE IT ENACTED, by the General Assembly
of Maryland, That
five persons shall be annually appointed by the governor and council |
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