| CHARLES RIDGELY, OF HAMPTON, ESQ. GOVERNOR.
rights and privileges, from waste or encroachments, and
for promoting the great interests and ensuring the good government
of the city, not repugnant to the rights of the citizen, nor inconsistent
with the provisions of any act of the general assembly of
this state, or the constitution thereof. |
1817.
CHAP. 143. |
8. AND BE IT ENACTED, That all the powers,
privileges, rights
and property, vested in or granted to the commissioners of the western
precincts, the commissioners of the eastern precincts of Baltimore,
or their respective officers, the commissioners of the western
precincts market, or the commissioners of the eastern precincts
market, shall be and the same are hereby vested in the mayor and
city council of Baltimore, as fully, and for the like purposes, as the
same were possessed by the above named boards or officers respectively;
and that the acts (a), entitled, " An act to appoint commissioners
to grade and level the several streets, squares, lanes and alleys,
in the precincts of Baltimore," and " An Act to appoint commissioners
to grade, level, pave and repair, the streets, squares,
lanes and alleys, in that part of the eastern precincts of Baltimore
therein described, and for other purposes," and the several supplements
to those acts, be and the same are hereby repealed, except so
far as relates to rights acquired under the said boards, and to suits
now depending in which any of the said commissioners are parties,
or there remain contracts unexecuted, or claims unliquidated, in
which they are respectively interested, for the completion of which
the mayor and city council shall provide.
(a) Nov. 1809, ch. 131, and 1811, ch. 138. |
Powers transferred
to mayor and
city council. |
9. AND BE IT ENACTED, That the mayor and city
council of
Baltimore be and they are hereby authorised and empowered to improve
Jones's Falls, within the limits of the city, in such manner
as to prevent the overflowing of its banks, and to render it navigable
or boatable, as far as practicable, and otherwise to make it more
useful and ornamental to the city; and for that purpose they are hereby
invested with the right and title to the soil over which the said
Falls now flows, or may be directed to flow, (for the use and benefit
however of the public;) and if its bed should be changed or diverted
in any part, the old bed so left dry may be disposed of by
the said corporation, and the proceeds applied towards effecting the
proposed improvement; Provided, that no private right of property
in the bed of said Falls shall be affected by any thin herein contained,
nor shall the said mayor and city council have a right to
change the present bed of the Falls, without the consent of the person
or persons through whose land or property it may be hereafter
directed to flow, nor to widen Liffey-street on its west side without
the consent of the proprietors of the ground fronting thereon. |
Jones's Falls may
be improved.
Proviso. |
10. AND BE IT ENACTED, That if it shall be
found necessary or
advisable for accomplishing the intended improvement of the said
Falls, and for opening streets, or constructing wharves on its
banks, to purchase the property of individuals, the said corporation
are hereby authorised to purchase such property; and if the proprietor
of any such property is under any legal disability to contract
for a sale, or is unwilling to make such sale, or the corporation
cannot agree on the terms offered therefor, in either case the
judges of the sixth judicial district, or any two of them, on the application
of the corporation, shall appoint three disinterested persons |
Corporation authorised
to purchase
property. |
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