JOHN LEE CARROLL, ESQUIRE, GOVERNOR. 685
quehanna river and the basin of the Tidewater
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canal the streets designated on the plat of said city
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as Jefferson, Madison, Munroe, Van Buren and Erie
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streets.
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SEC. 21. And be it enacted, That the Mayor and
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Determine
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City Council shall determine what was high water
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nigh water
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mark before the construction of the basin of the
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mark.
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Tidewater canal.
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SEC. 22. And be it enacted. That if any person
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aggrieved by the decision of the Mayor and City
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Council in fixing the line or point of high water
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Bight of ap-
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mark, may at any time within one year appeal to
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peal.
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the Circuit Court for Harford county, and said court
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shall hear testimony and review the decision.
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SEC. 23. And be it enacted, That the Mayor and
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City Council shall cause a registration to be made of
all the voters of the city, which registration shall be
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Voters to be
registered.
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completed on or before the second Wednesday in
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December, eighteen hundred and seventy-nine. It
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shall be the duty of the clerk to the Council to act
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without extra compensation as register. He shall
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give fifteen days' notice of the time and place when
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he shall sit for the registration of voters, and shall
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set apart days from time to time by giving sufficient
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notice, so that all citizens who are entitled to vote
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may have an opportunity to be registered. He shall
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also open the registration books in each and every
year at least one week previous to the day of elec-
tion, for the purpose of adding new names and cor-
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Open regis-
tration books
every year.
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recting the register list, and shall keep open his
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books for one day from nine o'clock in the morning
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until six o'clock in the evening, and it shall be the
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duty of said clerk acting as register, to register all
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those who shall furnish satisfactory proof, upon oath
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or otherwise, that they are upwards of twenty-one
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years of age and citizens of the United States ; that
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they have been residents of the State of Maryland
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for one year, and have bona fide resided within the
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limits of said city for one year.
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SEC. 24. And be it enacted, That the Mayor and
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City Council shall once in every seven years, or
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oftener if they think proper, appoint two assessors,
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Appoint as-
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who shall value and assess the property in said cor-
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sessors.
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