1837.

LAWS OF MARYLAND.

CHAP. 38.

suitable and convenient to effect the purposes of this
act, and the discharge of his other duties.

CHAPTER 37.

Passed Feb. 7,
1838.

A supplement to an act, entitled, an act relating to the
city of Baltimore, passed at December session eighteen
hundred and thirty-seven.

Mayor & C. C
authorised.

SECTION 1. Be it enacted by the General Assembly of
Maryland, That the Mayor and City Council of Bal-
timore shall have power to open and condemn, as a
public highway, the alley described in the act to which
this is a supplement, on the application of the persons
owning a major part of the front on said alley; and that

Prescribed cen-
tre.

the centre of said alley shall be one hundred and forty
nine feet distant from the north-east intersection of
Hanover and Barre streets.

Repealing
clause.

SEC. 2. And be it enacted, That so much of the origi-
nal act, to which this is a supplement, as is repugnant
to or inconsistent with this act, be, and the same is
hereby repealed.

Approval requi-
red.

SEC. 3. And be it enacted, That this act shall not
take effect unless ft be approved by the Mayor and
City Council of Baltimore at their present or next an-
nual session,

CHAPTER 38.

Passed Feb. 8,
1838.

An act to confer certain powers over the lot of ground
therein mentioned, upon James H. McCulloh, of the
city of Baltimore.

Preamble.

WHEREAS, Dr. James H. McCulloh, of the city of
Baltimore, by his, petition to this General Assembly,
hath set forth that in the year eighteen hundred and
thirty-one he purchased a house and lot in the city of
Baltimore, the consideration for which he paid himself,
but in order to have the same settled upon his wife and
children, he caused the conveyance to be made to his
father, the late James H. McCulloh, in trust for him-