ROBERT BOWIE, ESQUIRE, GOVERNOR. NOVEMBER.

1805.

II. BE IT ENACTED, by the General Assembly of Maryland, That the mayor and city council of Bal-
timore be and they are hereby authorised and empowered, to separate, in whole or in part, for a
term of years, or without limitation, the said Rogers's addition from the body of the city of Balti-
more, and to discharge the holders of lots therein from all taxes, dues and levies, laid, or to be laid,

and from the operation of all ordinances, acts and by-laws, of the corporation thereof; provided,
that any such term of years extend to the time of erecting lamps, furnishing a watch, and the com-
mon benefits of the city institutions; and provided further, that no exemption be granted from the
regulations of the corporation aforesaid respecting lotteries, billiard-tables, and other gaming esta-
blishments, theatrical and like exhibitions, by any act or ordinance for the purpose herein specified.

CHAP.
XLII.

CHAP. XLIII.

An ACT to authorise and empower the levy court of Baltimore county
to assess and levy a sum of money for the purpose therein mentioned.

WHEREAS Benjamin Buckingham, of Baltimore county, by his petition to this general assem-
bly hath set forth, that he is now upwards of sixty years of age, having a wife and seven
children, three of whom are dumb, the eldest named Emma, of the age of fourteen years, is an
idiot; that he has been for sometime past supported by his neighbours, and being unable to support
himself and family, he therefore prays that a law may pass, authorising the levy court of Baltimore
county to levy a sum of money on the assessable property of said county for the support of his said
daughter named Emma; and the same appearing reasonable, therefore,

II. BE IT ENACTED, by the General Assembly of Maryland, That the levy court of Baltimore county
shall be and are hereby directed and empowered, at their levy court annually, so long as they may
see cause, to assess and levy a sum of money on the assessable property of said county, not exceed-
ing thirty dollars, for the support and maintenance of the said Emma, and that the same be collected
and paid annually to Benjamin Buckingham by the collector of Baltimore county, for the use, support
and maintenance, of the said Emma, agreeable to the order of the levy court aforesaid.

Passed 25th of
January, 1806.

CHAP. XLIV.

A Supplement to an act, entitled, An act for introducing a copious
supply of wholesome water in the city of Baltimore.

WHEREAS by the second section of the original act to which this is a supplement it is enacted,
that the capital stock of the said corporation shall not exceed five hundred thousand dollars,
be divided into ten thousand shares, of fifty dollars each, and the subscriptions to the said capital
stock shall be opened, and kept open, under the direction of the said president and directors, until
the aforesaid number of shares be subscribed; and it being represented to this general assembly, that
the said number of shares will not be necessary to complete the object of the said law, therefore,

II. BE IT ENACTED, by the General Assembly of Maryland, That the said president and directors of

the Baltimore water company shall have full power and authority, from time to time, at their discre-

tion, to take and receive subscriptions to the said capital stock, and to close the same, so that the
said subscriptions shall not exceed in the whole the said number of ten thousand shares, of fifty
dollars each share.

III. AND, whereas by the fourth section of the said original act it is enacted, that in choosing di-
directors no person or body politic shall have more than twenty votes, and that each person holding
one or more shares under the said number of twenty, shall have one vote for every share so held,
and it being represented to this general assembly, that the said law, in this particular, is contrary
to the terms under which the said company associated and are willing to be governed, and upon the
faith of which they have advanced large sums of money, and progressed very considerably in the
said undertaking; therefore, BE IT ENACTED, That in the choosing directors all persons or bodies
politic, holding stock in the said company, shall vote agreeably to the number of shares they may
hold, in the following proportion; that is to say, for one share, and not exceeding two shares, one
vote each; for every two shares above two, and not exceeding ten, one vote; for every four shares
above ten, and not exceeding thirty, one vote; for every six shares above thirty, and not exceeding
sixty, one vote; and for every eight shares above sixty, one vote; but no person or body politic
shall be entitled to more than eighty votes.

IV. AND, whereas by the last section of the said original act it is enacted, that the same shall
continue and be hi force during the full term of twenty years, and to the end of the next session of

Passed 25th of
January, 1806.