1346 HARFORD COUNTY. [ART. 13.

the streets designated on the plat of said city as Jefferson, Madi-
son, Munroe, Van Buren and Erie streets.

1878, ch. 440.

161. They shall determine what was high water mark before
the construction of the basin of the Tidewater canal.

Ibid.

162. Any person aggrieved by the decision of the mayor and
city council, in fixing the line or point of high water mark, may
at any time within one year appeal to the circuit court for Har-
ford county, and said court shall hear testimony and review the
decision.

Ibid.

163. It shall be the duty of the clerk to the council to act
without extra compensation as register of voters; he shall open
the registration books in each and every year, at least one week
previous to the day of election, for the purpose of adding new
names and correcting the registration list; and shall keep open
his books for one day, from nine o'clock in the morning until six
o'clock in the evening; and it shall be the duty of said clerk act-
ing as register, to register all those who shall furnish satisfactory
proof, upon oath or otherwise, that they are upwards of twenty-
one years of age, and citizens of the United States; that they
have been residents of the State of Maryland for one year, and
have bona fide resided within the limits of said city for one year.

Ibid.

164. The mayor and city council, once in every seven years,
or oftener if they think proper, shall appoint two assessors, who
shall value and assess the property in said corporation, in the
same manner and with like authority as county assessors; but in
assessing any of the lands within the limits of the city, which
may be occupied and used as farms, or may be part or parts of
farms, such lands shall be valued and assessed as lots of ten acres,
with the buildings and improvements thereon, and not by the
number of acres in said farms or parts of farms; and said asses-
sors shall make oath before the said mayor and city council that
they will faithfully and impartially make the said assessment, to