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CHAP. 148. |
LAWS OF MARYLAND.
immediately proceed to ascertain and mark out the limits within
said city, so far as the same is in their judgment thickly settled,
built up, or improved, and in which the usual regulations for
watching and lighting, or clearing the streets, are or ought to be
applied; and the mayor and city council of Baltimore shall not
have power to impose any direct tax upon the property, without the
said limits, so to be ascertained as aforesaid. |
Plots of the same
to be made. |
20. AND BE IT ENACTED, That the said commissioners
shall
have power to employ a surveyor or surveyors, and shall return a
plot of the limits so ascertained to the register of the city, and one
other plot to the clerk of Baltimore county, to be by them recorded
in their respective offices, authenticated copies of which shall be
evidence; and the said commissioners shall each receive six dollars
per diem for the time in which they may be necessarily employed
in the execution of the provisions of this act, which, together
with the expenses of the survey, shall be paid by the levy
court of Baltimore county, to be by the said court levied upon the
assessable property contained between the limits to be ascertained
as aforesaid, and the bounds prescribed by the act to enlarge the
bounds of Baltimore city. |
Election made valid,
and acts repealed. |
21. AND BE IT ENACTED, That the election made
in October
last for members of the second branch of the city council for the
new wards, shall be deemed valid, and that all acts and parts of
acts of assembly, which are supplied by, or are inconsistent with,
the provisions of this act, be and the same are hereby repealed. |
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Passed Feb. 9, 1818.
* 1816, ch. 252. |
CHAP. CXLIX.
An Act to confirm an act*, entitled, An act to alter and change
such
parts of the Constitution and Form of Government as
relate to the
division of Anne-Arundel County into Election Districts,
and to
change the place of holding Elections in the Second
Election District
of said County. Lib. TH. No. 6, fol. 71. |
| Act confirmed. |
BE IT ENACTED, by the General Assembly of Maryland,
That
an act passed at December session eighteen hundred and sixteen,
entitled, An act to alter and change such parts of the constitution
and form of government as relate to the division of Anne-Arundel
county into election districts, and to change the place of holding
elections in the second district of said county, shall be and the
same is hereby confirmed. |
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Passed Feb. 11, 1818. |
CHAP. CL.
A Further Additional Supplement to the act (a), entitled,
An act for
making the River Susquehanna navigable from the line
of this
State to tide water. Lib. TH. No. 6, fol.
71.
(a) Nov. 1783, ch. 23. See 1801, ch. 99, and 1803, ch. 102. |
| Preamble. |
WHEREAS the proprietors of the Susquehanna Canal,
have incurred,
in the prosecution of that great and important public work,
considerable debts, which their corporate funds are incompetent to
discharge: And whereas the said canal, with all its appertenances,
has been sold by the sheriff of Cecil county, at the instance of the
Bank of Maryland, and purchased by Samuel Sterett of Baltimore,
acting for himself and several persons associated with him, and
there are doubts as to the validity of said sale; but the purchasers
are willing to relinquish to the said corporation their right under |
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