380 LAWS OF MARYLAND.

deepening and improving a channel in the Chesapeake bay and
Patapsco river and the harbor of the City of Baltimore.

275. It shall be the duty of the Mayor and City Council of
Baltimore, on or before the fifteenth day of September in each
year, to report to the Comptroller of the State a fair and strict
account of their disbursement of the fund arising from said auc-
tion duties, as to the amount the same are appropriated in the
preceding section, in relation to the deepening and improving
said channel, Patapsco river and Baltimore City harbor; and
the said Comptroller shall report the same to the General
Assembly.

276. If the net proceeds of said auction duties shall exceed
the sum of twenty thousand dollars, the excess of said duties
above that sum shall, for each and every year that they shall
exceed that sum, be paid over by the Comptroller of the
City of Baltimore to the Treasurer of the State; and in
case of such excess as aforesaid, the Comptroller of the City
shall also render to the Comptroller of the State a brief
statement or account, showing the amounts received by him on
account of auction duties, the amount paid the Mayor and City
Council of Baltimore, under section 274, and the balance due
the State and payable to the State Treasurer—which said bal-
ance, if any, and whenever the same shall arise from said auc-
tion duties, shall be paid to said Treasurer on or before the
twenty-fifth day of September in each and every year.

277. The provisions of the three preceding sections shall
not have any effect if the City of Baltimore, by ordinance or
otherwise, shall make any charge on articles passing over or
deposited on the wharves of said City for a less time than one
day, for the purpose of delivery only, from or on board of any
vessel trading within the limits of this State, other than the
regular wharfage chargeable on such vessel.

278. Nothing contained in this sub-division of this Article
shall prohibit the sale of leather, iron or tobacco, by the person
who manufactured the same, without the license herein re-
quired.