| 1807.
CHAP. 160.
Proviso. |
LAWS OF MARYLAND.
a majority of them, be and they are hereby appointed commissioners
(a) for the time being, of the market-house hereby to be erected,
and as such shall have full power and authority hereby vested
in them, to receive from any person or persons a suitable lot of
ground in the eastern precincts of the city of Baltimore, in such
situation as in the judgement of a majority of them, shall be considered
as most eligible and convenient for a market-house, and
to receive a deed or deeds therefor, executed in due form of law,
to them and their successors; and the right and title of the said lot
of ground, when conveyed as aforesaid, shall be, and the same is
]hereby declared to be, vested in eh said commissioners, and their
successors, for ever, to hold, possess and enjoy the same, and the
market house thereon, to and for the use and benefit of Baltimore,
and the precincts thereof, in as full and ample a manner as if the
said commissioners had been legally constituted a body politic and
corporate, in deed and in name; and the said commissioners are
hereby authorised and empowered to erect and build a market-house
upon the said lot so to be conveyed as aforesaid, and for that
purpose to contract for and purchase materials, and to contract and
agree for the building of the same; Provided always, that the said
commissioners, or a majority of them, shall, within sixty days after
obtaining the aforesaid piece of ground, enter into bond to the
state of Maryland, in the penalty of thirty thousand dollars, with
condition that they the said commissioners, or a majority of them,
within two years thereafter, shall erect and build, or cause to be
erected and built, a market house, in a good and substantial workmanlike
manner, according to such plan as the levy court of Baltimore
county shall approve, and shall finish and complete the same
within the time heretofore prescribed; which bond shall be lodged
with the clerk of Baltimore county court for safe keeping, and upon
such bond, or office copy thereof, suit or suits may be instituted
against the obligors therein named, for any breach or non-performance
of the condition thereof.
(a) By 1817, ch. 148, all the
power, &c. granted to the commissioners herein
mentioned, are vested in the Mayor and City Council. |
Subscriptions authorised
for defraying
expenses
of building. |
3. AND BE IT ENACTED, That to defray the expense
of building
said market-house, the said commissioners, or a majority of
them, be and they are hereby authorised and empowered to
open books of subscription, and to receive subscriptions for
the same, and the sums of money so subscribed to collect and receive,
and the same, when received, to expend in the erecting and
building the market-house aforesaid. |
Vacancies, how to
be filled. |
5. AND BE IT ENACTED, That in case of the
death, refusal to
act, or removal from the city of Baltimore, or precincts thereof,
of any of the commissioners appointed by this act, that the levy
court of Baltimore county be and they are hereby authorised and
empowered, to appoint a fit and proper person to fill up such vacancy,
and so from time to time to fill up such vacancies, that the
said commissioners may have perpetual succession for ever thereafter. |
