498 CITY OF BALTIMORE [ART. 4.

P. L. L., (1860,) art. 4, sec. 637.

677. H any clerk of the market, or any other person or officer
appointed by or under the authority of the mayor or city council
shall demand, receive or collect any tax or other charges from
any person attending the markets of said city as provided in the
preceding section, who shall be standing in the open streets, and
who does not occupy any place or stand in the market, he shall be
liable to a fine of twenty dollars for each offence, to be recovered
before any justice of the peace as small debts, one-half to the in-
former and the other half to the State.

Ibid, sec. 638.

678. The mayor and city council may lease, sell or dispose of
the stalls and stands in any market, in any manner and for any
term they may think proper.

Musgrave v. Staylor, 36 Md. 124. Rose v. Mayor, &c., 51 Md. 256.

Ibid. sec. 639.

679. The mayor and city council may contract for, purchase,
lease and hold, to them and their successors, in fee simple, or for
a term of years, renewable from time to time, forever, any lands,
tenements and their appurtenances in the vicinity of any market,
for the purpose of extending the same.

Ibid. sec. 640.

680. They may agree with the owners of any land or other
property which they may deem it expedient to purchase and hold,
for the purpose of extending any market; and if they cannot
agree, or if there be any incapacity in the owners to contract in
relation thereto, or if such owners be unknown or out of the
State, any justice of the peace for said city, on application to the
mayor and city council, may issue his warrant to the sheriff of
said city, commanding him to summon from the said city a jury
of twenty freeholders, inhabitants of said city, not related to the
owners or persons interested in the real estate or other property,
to meet on the premises on some certain day to be named in said
warrant, of which said warrant and the day therein named for the
meeting of the jury, five days' notice shall be given previous to
such day by the mayor and city council, to every owner or person
interested, and left at his place of abode.