1838.

LAWS OF MARYLAND.

CHAP. 94.

CHAPTER 93.

Passed Feb. 25,
1839.

A supplement to an act authorizing the appointing of
inspectors and wood corders, and to regulate the cord-
ing of fire wood, brought by water to the City of Bal-
timore, for sale, passed December session, eighteen
hundred and sixteen, chapter one hundred and ninety
nine.

Clause requiring

wood to be 2 inch-

es, repealed.

Be it enacted by the General Assembly of Maryland,
That so much of the fifth section of the original act, to
which this is a supplement, as requires that the cord
wood, shall be not less than two inches in diameter at
the small end, be and the same is hereby repealed.

CHAPTER 94.

Passed Feb. 25,
1839.

An additional supplement to the original act incorpora-
ting the Town of Williamsport, in Washington Coun-
ty.

Empowered in re-

lation to fires.

SECTION 1. Be it enacted by the General Assembly of

Maryland, That the Burgess and Commissioners of
Williamsport, in Washington county, be and they are
hereby clothed with full and sufficient powers to enact
all such ordinances and regulations, from time to time,
as they shall deem wise and proper, for the prevention
and extinguishment of Fires in said town.

Restriction as to

time of making

levies, repealed.

Sec. 2. And be it enacted, That so much of the first
section of the additional supplement, to the original
charter, passed, March the fifteenth, eighteen hundred
and thirty four, as authorizes and requires the Bur-
gess and Commissioners of said town, annually here-
after, to levy on all the taxable property in said town,
in the same manner and at the same time and to be

collected in the same way as other town taxes are le-

vied and collected in said town, a sum of money not
exceeding twenty-five cents on every hundred dollars
worth of taxable property in said town, be and the same
is hereby so amended as to give to the Burgess and
Commissioners aforesaid, the power to levy the said
tax, whenever in their judgment it may become neces-

Only once annual-

ly.

sary or expedient; provided, it be not levied oftener
than once annually.