FRANK BROWN, ESQUIRE, GOVERNOR.

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hold his office until his successor is appointed and qualified,
and who shall receive as compensation for his services as such
clerk, the sum of three hundred dollars per annum, and no
more, to be levied for by said commissioners, as is usual in
such cases; and hereafter it shall be the duty of said Board
of Commissioners, immediately after any general election,
when a new commissioner or commissioners is or are elected
and their board shall have been re-organized, to appoint a clerk
to serve for the term of two years or until his successor is
appointed and qualified, and who shall receive the same salary
as hereinbefore provided.

Clerk to be
appointed...

SEC. 2. And be it enacted, That all Public Local Laws or
parts of laws, or section 3 of ehapter 183 of the Acts of 1890,
relating to the treasurer of Calvert county, so far as they are
inconsistent with this act, be and the same are hereby repealed.

Repeal.

SEC. 3. And be it enacted, That this act shall take effect
from the date of its passage.

Approved April 3d, 1894.

CHAPTER 210.

AN ACT to authorize and empower the Mayor and City
Council of Baltimore to pass and enforce an ordinance
requiring passenger railway companies in said city to pro-
vide proper fenders to their cars for the prevention of
accidents.

Effective.

SECTION 1. Be it enacted by the General Assembly of
Maryland, That the Mayor and City Council of Baltimore be
and they are hereby authorized, empowered and enabled to
pass an ordinance or ordinances requiring passenger railway
companies in said city to provide proper fenders to their cars
for the protection of human life, and to lessen the danger
thereto arising from collisions with such cars. And the said
Mayor and City Council of Baltimore be and they are hereby
authorized, empowered and enabled to prescribe and enforce
such penalties for the violation of such ordinance or ordinances,
not inconsistent with laws of this State, as they may deem

May pass a
fender ordi-
nance.