EDWIN WARFIELD, ESQ., GOVERNOR.

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CHAPTER 87.

AN ACT to create a Commission on the Burnt District of

Baltimore City; to define its duties and powers; to regulate

its methods of procedure ; to define the extent of said district ;

to provide for opening, extending, widening, straightening

and closing streets, lanes and alleys; for establishing public

squares and market spaces, building lines and the width of

sidewalks in said district ; for adding to, extending and partly

filling the harbors or basin of Baltimore City ; and for estab-

lishing public wharves and docks ; and to provide for appro-

priating a portion of the general sinking fund of Baltimore

City and other moneys for the purposes of this Act.

SECTION 1. Be it enacted by the General Assembly of Mary-

land, That the Mayor of the City of Baltimore is hereby author-

Appointment
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ized to appoint at once, in the manner prescribed in Section

District Com-

25 of Article 4, entitled "City of Baltimore," of the Public Local

mission.

Laws of Maryland, and subject to the condition that two of the

appointees shall be members of the minority party within

the meaning of Section 30 of said Article, four capable and

upright citizens of the City of Baltimore, who, together with

the Mayor, himself ex--officio, shall constitute a Special Com-

mission, to be known as "The Burnt District Commission,"

and who shall continue in office until the work of said Com-

mission has been completed. If, however, the Second Branch

of the City Council of Baltimore shall reject two several and

successive nominations by the Mayor to position on said Com-

mission, he shall be empowered to make an appointment there-

to without its confirmation. No municipal officer, or other of

the Mayor and City Council of Baltimore, whether holding a

Eligibility of

paid or unpaid office or position under the said corporation,

said board.

shall be eligible for appointment to said Commission, and all

persons appointed to said Commission shall qualify and be sub-

ject to removal by the Mayor, except that there shall be no

removal at any time save for cause, after charges preferred.

as prescribed by Section 25 of Article 4, entitled "City of Bal-

timore," of the Public Local Laws of Maryland. Any member

of said Commission may, at any time, resign therefrom by ten-

dering his resignation, in writing, to the Mayor ; and any

vacancy in said Commission occasioned by his resignation,

removal, death or permanent absence from this State of the in-

cumbent or by supervening incapacity upon his part, whether

physical or mental, to discharge his duties, or by any other