FREDERICK COUNTY. 2505
voters of the city of Frederick, at any general or special election that may
be hereafter held in said city, who, at said election, shall determine by a
majority of the votes duly cast, whether slaughter houses shall be per-
mitted or prohibited within the corporate limits of said city. And the
Mayor and Aldermen of Frederick are hereby authorized and empowered
to pass all laws and ordinances which may be necessary or proper for the
purpose of carrying out the powers hereby conferred. And be it further
enacted, that the provisions of this section giving the Mayor and Alder-
men of Frederick the power to prohibit the keeping of swine, hogs and
pigs within the corporate limits of Frederick City, and to prohibit
slaughter houses within the corporate limits of said city under certain
conditions, shall in no way repeal or modify, abrogate or impair any au-
thority which said city now has relating to hog pens and slaughter houses
under Sections 283, 289 and 296 of this Article.
Etchison v. Frederick City, 123 Md. 283.
1908, ch. 560, sec. 270G. 1918 Code, sec. 326.
302. The Mayor and Aldermen shall have power to acquire by pur-
chase or condemnation any land or property, or any interest therein which
it may require for any public or municipal purpose, and may provide
such methods of condemnation of any land or property or interest therein,
situated within or without the city of Frederick, as they may deem proper,
under such procedure as it may adopt; it shall provide reasonable notice
to the owner or owners and for appeals to the Circuit Court for Frederick
County by any person interested, including the Mayor and Aldermen of
Frederick, from the decision of any jury, commissioners or other persons
appointed to value any such land or property, or interest therein. Nothing
herein contained shall deprive the city of any power of condemnation for
any purpose, already invested in it.
ORDINANCES.
P. L. L., 1888, Art. 11, sec. 200. 1918 Code, sec. 327.
303. All ordinances of said corporation shall be signed by the Mayor.
1914, ch. 9, sec. 225. 1918 Code, sec. 328.
304. No ordinance of the corporation, which imposes a penalty by
way of fine or imprisonment for a violation thereof, shall be binding on
any person who does not reside in said city, until the same shall have been
published in some newspaper in said city, except in case of wilful and
intentional violation of such ordinance, after notice thereof.
1908, ch. 560, sec. 225A. 1918 Code, sec. 329.
305. The revised codified and printed ordinances of the Mayor and
Aldermen of Frederick, adopted by the Mayor and Aldermen of Frederick
on the first day of February, A. D. 1901, except such as have been subse-
quently amended or repealed, are declared valid and binding, and the
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