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Session Laws, 1878
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JOHN LEE CARROLL, ESQUIRE, GOVERNOR. 685

quehanna river and the basin of the Tidewater

 

canal the streets designated on the plat of said city

 

as Jefferson, Madison, Munroe, Van Buren and Erie

 

streets.

 

SEC. 21. And be it enacted, That the Mayor and

Determine

City Council shall determine what was high water

nigh water

mark before the construction of the basin of the

mark.

Tidewater canal.

 

SEC. 22. And be it enacted. That if any person

 

aggrieved by the decision of the Mayor and City

 

Council in fixing the line or point of high water

Bight of ap-

mark, may at any time within one year appeal to

peal.

the Circuit Court for Harford county, and said court

 

shall hear testimony and review the decision.

 

SEC. 23. And be it enacted, That the Mayor and

 

City Council shall cause a registration to be made of
all the voters of the city, which registration shall be

Voters to be
registered.

completed on or before the second Wednesday in

 

December, eighteen hundred and seventy-nine. It

 

shall be the duty of the clerk to the Council to act

 

without extra compensation as register. He shall

 

give fifteen days' notice of the time and place when

 

he shall sit for the registration of voters, and shall

 

set apart days from time to time by giving sufficient

 

notice, so that all citizens who are entitled to vote

 

may have an opportunity to be registered. He shall

 

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-

Open regis-
tration books
every year.

recting the register 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 acting 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.

 

SEC. 24. And be it enacted, That the Mayor and

 

City Council shall once in every seven years, or

 

oftener if they think proper, appoint two assessors,

Appoint as-

who shall value and assess the property in said cor-

sessors.



 

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