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Acts relating to municipalities.

Ordinance No. 692 of the Mayor and City Council of Baltimore, providing for
the segregation of white and colored people, held not to violate sec. 221 of the
Baltimore city charter, which is an adaptation of this section. State v. Gurry,
121 Md. 539.

Title of the act of 1904, ch. 274, authorizing Baltimore city to issue stock to raise
money for the condemning, opening, etc., of streets in the Annex, authorizing the
appointment of an "Annex improvement commission" and defining the duties
thereof, held sufficient. Cases involving the portion of this section dealing with
the title of an act, reviewed and summarized. Baltimore v. Flack, 104 Md. 114.

Title of the act of 1886, ch. 280, giving authority to the city of Baltimore to open
streets through a cemetery, held sufficient, although the act made provision for
the removal of bodies from certain parts of the cemetery and for the sale of the land
from which bodies were removed. Catholic Cathedral v. Manning, 72 Md. 133.

Title of the act of 1867, ch. 240, which is "An Act to Amend and Alter the Char-
ter of the City of Annapolis," held sufficient; the subject-matter of the legislation
was the charter of a municipal corporation embracing its powers, rights and duties.
Annapolis v. State, 30 Md. 118.

Title of the act of 1870, ch. 260, incorporating the town of Laurel, held sufficient.
Prince Georges County v. Laurel, 51 Md. 460.

Title of the act of 1900, ch. 75, providing for the establishment of an electric light
plant at Hagerstown, but not stating that- it was to be established by the muni-
cipality, held sufficient. Mealey v. Hagerstown, 92 Md. 743.

Ordinance of the city of Baltimore, No. 684, approved March 3, 1922, prohibiting
the sale at public auction of gold, silver, jewelry, etc., upheld; the fact that certain
auction sales of property of the kind mentioned are exempted in the body of the
ordinance does not make the title misleading. Mogul v. Gaither, 142 Md. 382.

Local act's.

Title of the act of 1912, ch. 823, providing a " people's court " for Baltimore city,
held sufficient. Levin v. Hewes, 118 Md. 631.

Title of the act of 1910, ch. 693, for the regulation of moving picture machines
in the city of Baltimore, held sufficient. State v. Loden, 117 Md. 383.

Title of the act of 1908, ch. 118, providing new appraisers of decedents' estates
in Baltimore city, held sufficient. Barren v. Smith, 108 Md. 317.

Title of the act of 1908, ch. 142, authorizing Baltimore city to publish notices in
German newspapers, held sufficient. Whiteley v. Baltimore, 113 Md. 541.

Title of the act of 1854, ch. 200, regulating inspections in Baltimore city, held
sufficient. Davis v. State, 7 Md. 160.

Title of the act of 1878, ch. 160, repealing certain sections of the Public Local
Laws applicable to Dorchester county, sub-title " County Commissioners," held
sufficient. A law may be repealed by reference to its title alone. Dorchester County
v. Meekins, 50 Md. 40 (cf. dissenting opinion); Montague v. State, 54 Md. 487.

Title of the act of 1894, ch. 25, repealing and re-enacting certain sections of the
local code for Cecil county, so as to provide for the election of a treasurer of said
county in the year 1895 and his appointment in the meantime, held sufficient.
Bad grammar will not vitiate a statute. Cases reviewed and distinguished. Drennen
v. Banks, 80 Md. 315.

Title of the act of 1900, ch. 147, regulating the number, jurisdiction, duties and
compensation of justices of the peace and constables in Baltimore county, held
sufficient. Herbert v. Baltimore County, 97 Md. 642.

Title of the act of 1894. ch. 546, providing for the removal of the county seat of
Charles county from Port Tobacco to La Plata or Chapel Point, if the voters so
determined, etc., held sufficient. Hamilton v. Carroll, 82 Md. 334.

Title of the act of 1890, ch. 183, creating a treasurer for Calvert county, and pro-
viding for the collection of taxes therein, held sufficient, although it provided that
the deputy treasurer should be the clerk of the county commissioners. Calvert
County v. Hellen, 72 Md. 605-6.

Title of the act of 1878, ch. 108, which was "An Act to Add an Additional Article
to the Code of Public Local Laws to be Entitled Garrett County," held sufficient.
State v. Fox, 51 Md. 414.

Title of the act of 1878, ch. 143, repealing a certain act and reviving and amend-
ing a certain section of the Public Local Laws and validating certain condemnation
proceedings, held sufficient. Baltimore v. Reitz, 50 Md. 579.

Title of the act of 1918, ch. 122, creating a sanitary district, or a special taxing
district, within two counties, upheld as containing a clear and definite description
of the subject matter of the act. Dahler v. Wash. Sub. San. Comn., 133 Md. 647.