| 1818.
CHAP. 194.
Inhabitants to be
competent witnesses
in all actions
arising under this
act. |
LAWS OF MARYLAND.
15. AND BE IT ENACTED, That the inhabitants
of the said city,
and all persons holding property therein, shall be competent witnesses
in all actions arising under this act, or the by-laws and ordinances
of said corporation, if exempt from all other exceptions
than that of interest as an inhabitant of the said city or member of
said corporation. |
No ordinance to be
binding on non-residents,
unless it
has been published
in a newspaper of
the city.
Proviso. |
16. AND BE IT ENACTED, That no ordinance of
the said corporation
shall be binding on persons who do not reside within the limits
of the said city, until the same shall have been published in
some newspaper of the said city, unless in the case of wilful and
intentional violation of said ordinance, after notice thereof; Provided
always, that the said corporation shall not pass any ordinance
inconsistent with the laws of this state or of the United States. |
All parts of the
charter inconsistent
with this act,
repealed. |
17. AND BE IT ENACTED, That all that part
of the charter of the
city of Annapolis, which gives to the mayor, recorder and aldermen,
the power of holding a court of hustings within said city, and
all such parts of the said charter, and all acts of the legislature, respecting
the same, which are repugnant to or inconsistent with the
provisions of this act, be and the same are hereby repealed.
See 1708, ch. 7. June 1777, ch.
3; 1784, ch. 49; 1785, ch. 26; 1790, ch. 46;
1791, ch. 49; 1796, ch, 39; 1802, ch. 89; and Dec. 1813,
ch. 48. |
Nothing in this act
to authorise the
extension of any
street, &c. |
18. AND BE IT ENACTED, That nothing in this
act contained shall
in any wise be construed as authorising the mayor, recorder or aldermen,
to extend any street, lane or alley, beyond the bounds originally
laid down for the city of Annapolis, or the additions thereto,
unless by the consent of the party or parties interested, any thing
herein contained to the contrary notwithstanding. |
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Passed Feb. 18, 1819. |
CHAP. CXCV.
An act to incorporate the Cape Sable Company for making Copperas
and Allum. Lib. TH. No. 6, fol. 422. |
| Preamble. |
WHEREAS, by a deed of trust from John Gibson to
Charles Carroll
of Carrollton, bearing date the twenty-eighth day of June,
eighteen hundred and thirteen, and recorded among the records of
Anne-Arundel county court, an association was entered into between
Richard Caton, John Gibson, and others, for making copperas
and allum, and for raising and selling coal, and other minerals
and fossils, and for establishing manufactories on the lands
contained within the deed of trust aforesaid: And whereas by the
said deed of trust it is stated, that the property of said company or
association shall consist of sixty parts or shares: Now, to enable
the said association better to carry into effect the objects for which
they were associated, |
| Persons incorporated. |
1. BE IT ENACTED, by the General Assembly
of Maryland, That
Richard Caton, John Gibson, and others, constituting the said association,
their heirs, successors and assigns, be, and they are hereby
declared a body corporate and politic, by the name of The Cape
Sable Company, and by that name to have succession until the said
company shall be dissolved, by a resolve of three-fourths of the share
holders, holding three-fourths of the whole stock of the said company;
and the company, and the successors, by the name and title
of Cape Sable Company, may sue and be sued, answer and be answered,
defend and be defended, in any court of law or equity in
this state or elsewhere; they shall have a common seal, and the |
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