E. LOUIS LOWE, ESQUIRE, GOVERNOR.
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CHAPTER 253.
AN ACT to provide for carrying into effect, in part, the
valuation and division of the joint property of the
City and County of Baltimore, and for adjusting their
mutual concerns.
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Passed May
21, 1853.
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WHEREAS, pursuant to an act of
the General Assembly,
passed at the session of eighteen hundred and
fifty-two, commissioners were appointed by the mayor
and city council of Baltimore, and by the county commissioners
of Baltimore county, to value and divide
the property held jointly by the city and county; And
whereas, the commissioners so appointed did report a
valuation and division of the said joint property; And
whereas, there are alleged long standing accounts between
those parties for rents due to, and advances
made by the county; and for interests and payments
made by the city; And whereas, it is their mutual desire
forthwith to carry into effect the valuation and division
aforesaid, so far as regards all the joint property
except the almshouse property; and also to finally adjust
and close up all unsettled accounts, and mutual
demands between them; Therefore,
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Preamble.
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SECTION 1. Be it enacted
by the General Assembly
of Maryland, That the county commissioners of Baltimore
county, be, and they are hereby authorised and
empowered to execute, acknowledge and deliver to and
in favor of the mayor and city council of Baltimore, a
deed of conveyance of all the undivided moiety or half
part heretofore belonging to Baltimore county, of, in and
to the several lots, on which are situated the court
house, record office and jail, and all improvements
thereon and appurtenances thereto; and also of, in and
to two several lots, situated in that part of the city called
Fell's Point, to have and to hold the said moiety
and half part to the mayor and city council of Baltimore,
their successors and assigns; and the county
commissioners aforesaid are further authorised and empowered
to include in the deed aforesaid, a release of all
demands of every nature and kind due to, or claimed
by them, of and from the said mayor and city council
from the earliest times to the present period; Provided,
that the furniture in the actual possession of the officers
of the county, shall not be included in the aforesaid
conveyance, but shall thereafter be the exclusive property
of the county.
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Authorised to
deliver deed
of conveyance.
Proviso.
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