THOMAS W. VEAZEY, ESQUIRE, GOVERNOR.

for the purpose of effecting the object contemplated by

CHAP. 311

the act of eighteen hundred and thirty-three, chapter

three, have not been carried into full effect, for remedy

whereof;

SECTION 1. Be it enacted by the General Assembly of

Commissioners

Man/land, That Captain William Jewett, William H.

Whittington and Doctor Thomas Robertson, be, and

hereby are appointed commissioners to effect the pur-

pose contemplated by the first section of said act, and

are hereby authorised and empowered, or a majority

Authorised to com

of them, to construct said road through the lands of

struct road

Elisha Riggin, Junior, exclusively or according to the

provisions of the before mentioned act, as said commis-

sioners in their discretion may deem fit.

SEC. 2. And be it enacted, That the powers and

Powers conferred on levy court to

authorities conferred by said act upon the levy court

remove

of said county, shall remain as conferred by said act,

except as they are hereby altered in the first section.

CHAPTER 311.

A further supplement to an act, entitled, an act to erect

Passed April 2,1836

Baltimore town, in Baltimore county, into a City, and

to incorporate the inhabitants thereof.

Be it enacted by the General Assembly of Maryland,

In absence of May-

That in case of the sickness or necessary absence of

or, President of 1st & 2d Branch

the Mayor of Baltimore, the president of the first

to act

branch, or if no president of the first branch or in his

absence from the city or sickness, the president of the

second branch shall ex-officio he mayor of the city, dur-

ing the continuance of such sickness or necessary ab-

sence of the mayor, and shall have and possess all the

powers, and exercise the functions of Mayor of the city

of Baltimore for the time being.

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