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Passed 28th of
January, 1806.
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An additional supplement to an, act, entitled, An act to erect Balti-
more-town, in Baltimore county, into a city, and to incorporate
the inhabitants thereof.
WHEREAS it is represented to this general assembly, by the mayor and city council of Balti-
more, that certain alterations in the charter of that city would be productive of considerable
advantage, and they having prayed that the following amendments may be made thereto; and the
same appearing reasonable, therefore,
II. BE IT ENACTED, by the General Assembly of Maryland, That the mode of voting at the city elec-
tions shall hereafter be by ballot, in the same manner as delegates to the general assembly now are
elected, and that such elections shall commence and close at the same times of the day as other elec-
tions do now open and close.
III. AND, whereas by the act of incorporation of said city, the corporation are to provide for the
safe keeping and preservation of the standard of weights and measures fixed by congress, and for
the regulating thereby all weights and measures, used within the city and precincts, and in as much
as congress have not yet fixed any standard of weights and measures, and as. much fraud and imposi-
tion may be practised from a want of such standard, BE IT ENACTED, That the mayor, and city coun-
cil shall have and exercise the right of regulating all weights and measures within the city, and pre-
cincts aforesaid, by the present standard, until one shall be determined on by congress.
IV. AND BE IT ENACTED, That, this act shall, take effect and be in force, on and after, the first
day of February next.
V. AND BE IT ENACTED, That all and every provision of the act to which this, is a supplement;
that is inconsistent with this act, be and the same is hereby repealed.
VI. AND, whereas by the act to erect Baltimore-town, in Baltimore county, into a city, and to
incorporate the inhabitants, thereof, certain principles have been established, which are found inju-
rious, and inconvenient in their practical operation upon the police and municipal regulations of the
said city, therefore this, legislature, willing to remove such obstructions to the advancement of the
general welfare, by enlarging the range of selection, without impairing the public security, and. by
giving more full and complete effect; to the elective franchise in the choice, of the constituted autho-
rities of the said city, ordain and establish the following amendments, and alterations, as calculated
to remedy the inconveniencies which are now experienced; therefore, BE IT ENACTED, That: on the.
first Monday in October, eighteen hundred and seven, and on the first Monday in October in every
year thereafter, the mayor shall be elected by a plurality of all the ballots, given in by the voter-
qualified to vote in the respective wards of the said city for delegates to the general assembly, and
the judges of the said election in the several wards, shall conduct the same in the manner and form
prescribed by the act to regulate elections, passed at the present session of the legislature, and shall
make return, under their hands and seals, of the person so elected mayor, and lodge the said return
with the register of the city, and in case two or more persons shall have an equal number of ballots
for the office of mayor, the said judges shall determine by lot, before they separate, which of the
said persons, so having an equal number of ballots shall be appointed to the office of mayor, and
shall make their return accordingly..
VII. AND BE IT ENACTED, That the mayor shall not continue in office more than five years sue,
cessively, nor be eligible as mayor until the expiration of three years after he shall have been out of
office; and in case of vacancy, by the death, resignation, disqualification or removal, of the said
mayor, the members of the first and second branch of the city council shall immediately convene,
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