1803.

NOVEMBER. LAWS OF MARYLAND.

CHAP.
LXXXII.

convenience derived in consequence oF the opening and extending the said street, and praying that
a law may pass authorising the mayor and city council of Baltimore to appropriate part of the city

funds cowards defraying the expence thereof; therefore,

Mayor, &c.
may appropri-
ate city funds,
&c.

II. BE IT ENACTED, by the General Assembly of Maryland, That It shall and may be lawful for the
mayor and city council of Baltimore, by their ordinance, to appropriate so much of the city funds
as they may deem adequate for the benefit which the public have derived by the opening and extend-
ing Second-street in the city of Baltimore, and to apportion and. pay such sum or sums of mo-
ney, so appropriated and apportioned, to each and every person whose property has heretofore been
charged and made liable for the expence incurred under the operation of an act of the general assem-
bly, entitled, An act for the opening of Second-street in the city of Baltimore, and the several sup-
plements thereto.

CHAP. LXXXIII.

Passed 7th of
January, 1804,

An ACT relating to the inspection of flour and other artictes in the
precincts of the city of Baltimore.

Preamble,

WHEREAS it is represented to this general assembly, that many persons residing in the pre-
cincts of the city of Baltimore labour under great disadvantages by reason of the inspectors
of said city not being authorised to inspect flour and other artictes within the said precincts; fur
remedy whereof,

Laws to extend
to the precincts,
&c.

II. BE IT ENACTED, by the General Assembly of Maryland, That the laws heretofore passed, or here-
after to be passed, respecting the inspection of flour, provisions, butter and liquors, and the ordi-
nances of the corporation of the city of Baltimore, so far as the same relate to the inspection of
flour, provision, butter and liquors, shall extend, and are hereby extended, to the precincts of said
city, in as full and ample a manner as if the precincts of the city of Baltimore had been mentioned
therein, and the different inspectors, authorised for that purpose by the mayor and city council,
shall have the same power to inspect any flour, provisions, butter or liquors, in the precincts of the
city of Baltimore, that they now have in said city, and shall, when called upon, inspect flour, pro-
visions, butter or liquors, in the precincts, in the same manner, and under the same restrictions and
penalties, that are imposed in case of failing to inspect the like artictes in the city of Baltimore,
and the different inspectors shall be entitled to the same fees for inspections in the precincts as they
are authorised to receive for inspections under the laws of this state, or under the ordinances of the
corporation of the city of Baltimore, in said city, and all acts done by the inspectors appointed for
the city of Baltimore, within the precincts of said city, shall be as valid as if the said inspections
had been made within the said city; provided that nothing in this act contained shall extend, or be
construed to extend, to authorise any inspector of flour to inspect the same in or at any mill within
the said precincts.

CHAP. LXXXIV.

Passed. 7th of
January, 1804.
Preamble.

An ACT to revive and aid the proceedings of Calvert county court.

WHEREAS it is represented to this general assembly, that the county court of Calvert county
stood adjourned until the twelfth day of the present month of December, and that no one of
the justices, or cterk of the said court, attended to call and adjourn the same, whereby divers acti-
ons, suits and proceedings, both civil and criminal, were discontinued, and the said justices cannot
legally hold the said court until the next meeting appointed by law; for aiding therefore the said
actions, suits and proceedings, and for saving as far as may the suitors from the damage that might
otherwise be occasioned by such discontinuance.

Actions, &c.

directed, &c

II. BE IT ENACTED, by the General Assembly of Maryland, That all actions, suits, indictments, pleas,
process and proceedings, depending in the said court on the said twelfth day of December instant,
and all actions since commenced, or hereafter to be commenced, shall be and are hereby revived and
continued, and shall be in the same state and condition, to all intents and purposes, as if the
said court had met and been continued by regular and lawful adjournments, any thing in any law
to the contrary notwithstanding; provided always, that nothing in this act shall extend to, or
aitect or make liable, the bail or security for any person's appearance at the said court to have been
held on the twelfth instant, In any action or indictment, unless in the case of a person under prose-
cution for any crime or misdemeanor a default was entered on the recognizance before the said dis-
continuance, or the sheriff was amersed before such discontinuance for default of the defendant's
appearance in any civil suit, but any recognizance entered into by the principal shall stand as an
obligation for him to appear at the next meeting of the court, in the same manner as if the condition