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CHAPTER 123.

AN ACT to repeal Article 4, entitled "City of Baltimore," of
the Code of Public Local Laws of Maryland, and the several
Acts and parts of Acts amendatory thereof, and to re-enact
said Article 4, with amendments, under two sub-titles, to be
known as "Charter" and "Miscellaneous Local Laws."

SECTION i. Be it enacted by the General Assembly of Mary-
land, That Article 4, entitled " City of Baltimore," of the Code
of Public Local Laws of Maryland, and the several Acts and
parts of Acts amendatory thereof, be and the same are hereby
repealed, and the said Article 4 is hereby re-enacted, with
amendments, under two sub-titles to be known as " Charter "
and " Miscellaneous Local Laws," so as to read as follows :

ARTICLE IV.

CITY OF BALTIMORE.

CHARTER.

MAYOR AND CITY COUNCIL OF BALTIMORE.

Corporate Name, Power to Hold Property, Annex. -

1. The inhabitants of the City of Baltimore are a corpora-
tion, by the name of the " Mayor and City Council of Balti-
more," and by that name shall have perpetual succession, may
sue and be sued, may purchase and hold real, personal and
mixed property, and dispose of the same for the benefit of
said City, as herein provided, and may have and use a common
seal, which may be altered at pleasure.

2. All of the property and franchises of every kind be-
longing to or in possession of the Mayor and City Council of
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