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sioner, the said company shall forfeit and pay to the
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use of the city, for every such neglect, such sum, not
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exceeding twenty dollars, as any justice of the peace
for said city shall adjudge, on a warrant to be issued
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Penalty.
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in the name of the Mayor and City Council of Balti-
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more, against said company; and also, the sum of
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five dollars, to be recovered as aforesaid, for every
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day they shall neglect or refuse so to do after the
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issuing of the first warrant before mentioned, for the
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recovery of the said penalty of twenty dollars.
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SEC. 9. And be it enacted, That the Citizen's Gas
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Company of Baltimore, hereby incorporated, shall
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be entitled to and may have, hold and exercise all
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May have, hold
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the rights and privileges granted to the Gaslight
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and exercise.
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Company of Baltimore, by the second, third, fourth
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and fifth sections of the ordinance of the Mayor and
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City Council of Baltimore, entitled an ordinance to
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provide for more effectually lighting the streets,
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squares, lanes and alleys of the City of Baltimore,
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approved June seventeenth, eighteen hundred and
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sixteen, and the act of Assembly of December ses-
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sion, eighteen hundred and sixteen, chapter two
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hundred and fifty-one ; and shall be liable to all the
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Liable.
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duties, restrictions and penalties provided for in said
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sections of said ordinance, and in said act of Assem-
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bly, so far as the same are not inconsistent with the
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provisions of this act.
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SEC. 10. And be it enacted, That nothing in this act
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shall be so construed as to authorize the said com-
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pany to issue any note, token, scrip or other evidence
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Construed.
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of debt, to be used as currency, and the legislature
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reserves to itself the right to alter, amend or repeal
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this act at pleasure.
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SEC. 11. And be it enacted, That this act shall take
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effect from the date of its passage.
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In force.
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Approved April 11th, 1874.
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