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set forth from the said wards, in affording to the residents within
said wards the rights and privileges accorded to and enjoyed by
the residents within the other twenty wards of said city; but
nothing in this section shall be so construed as to require the
expenditure by said city of .any greater sum. From and after
the year nineteen hundred the property, real and personal, in the
said wards so annexed shall be liable to taxation and assessment
in the same manner and form as similar property within the-
other twenty wards of said city may be liable; provided, however,
that after the year nineteen hundred the Baltimore county rate
of taxation for the year eighteen hundred and eighty-seven shall
not be increased for city purposes on any landed property within,
the said two wards until avenues, streets or alleys shall have been
opened and constructed through the same, nor until there shall be
upon every block of ground so to be formed at least six dwelling;
or store-houses ready for occupation.

1888, ch. 98.

6. The annexation to the city of Baltimore of the territory
constituting said two new wards twenty-one and twenty-two,
shall not affect the right of any turnpike or toll-road company
heretofore chartered by this State from collecting tolls upon such
parts of their said roads as lie within said two wards, or either
of them, nor shall any provision in the charter of said com-
panies, which prohibits the erection of a toll-gate within one mile
of Baltimore city, operate to require the removal of any toll-gates
now located within said two wards, or either of them.

F. L. L., (1860,) art. 4, sec. 4. 1870, ch. 116. 1888, ch. 897.

7. The inhabitants of the city of Baltimore qualified to vote
for members of the house of delegates, shall, on the Tuesday
after the first Monday in November, eighteen hundred and
eighty-nine, and on the same day and month in every second year
thereafter, elect by ballot a person of known integrity, experi-
ence and sound judgment, twenty-five years of age, ten years a
citizen of the United States and five years a resident of said
city next preceding the election, and .assessed with property in
said city to the amount of five hundred dollars, to be mayor of
the city of Baltimore.