278 CITY OF BALTIMORE. [ART. 4.

This law further provides that this act shall take effect upon its passage, and that
the said mayor shall immediately appoint trustees of the poor of Baltimore city, as
in case of a vacancy, under the existing laws and ordinances.

In force and approved January 22,1868.

AUCTIONS.

1868, c. 171 amends and re-enacts sections 86 and 87 of this article so as to read as

follows:

1868, c 171 Auction duties

86. All real estate and vessels, all wines and ardent spirits, foreign or domestic, all goods, wares, merchan- dise and effects imported from any place beyond the Cape of Good Hope, all stocks of banks or other incor- porated institutions, state or city loans, goods and effects of deceased persons or insolvent debtorsj or property sold under an order or decree of any court at the rate of fifty cents on every hundred dollars, and coffee, tea, sugar and molasses, foreign or domestic, at the rate of ten cents on every hundred dollars. 87. All other goods, wares, merchandise and effects which are the production of any foreign country, all domestic manufactures, and all goods, wares, merchan- dise and effects and property, of what kind soever not enumerated above, at the rate of seventy-five cents on

Exception.

every hundred dollars, save and excepting that class of goods known as groceries and dry goods, which shall only be subject to a duty of ten cents on every hundred dollars. In force and approved March 20, 1868.

1868, c. 13 repeals section 127 of this article and substitutes the following therefor :

1868, c 13. Deepening channel and harbor.

127. The proceeds of auction duties to the amount of twenty thousand dollars shall be appropriated annually for the purpose of deepening and improving a channel in the Chesapeake bay and Patapsco river, and the har- bor of the city of Baltimore; and the treasurer shall, upon the warrant of the comptroller, disburse and pay