1844.

THOMAS G. PRATT, ESQUIRE, GOVERNOR.

CHAP. 283.

Mayor ex-
officio to give
15 days notice

same, and for all other necessary expenses that may be
incurred in the execution of this act.
SEC. 6. And be it enacted, That where the president of
the first or second branch of the City Council shall ex of-
ficio become Mayor by virtue of the second section of the
act of Assembly of eighteen hundred and thirty-two, chap-
ter two hundred and six, it shall be the duty of said pre-
sident within five days after he shall so succeed to the
Mayoralty, to give the notice for an election of Mayor,
required by said section, which notice shall be for fifteen
days instead of twenty days as required by said section.

Term of of-
fice of Mayor
2d Monday of
November.

SEC. 7. And be it enacted, That the term of office of
the Mayor of the city of Baltimore, shall be understood to
commence on the second Monday of November succeed-
ing his election.

Laws and or-
dinances to
apply to this
act

SEC. 8. And be it enacted, That all laws and ordinances
relating to elections in the city of Baltimore whether as to
appointment of judges or otherwise applicable to the pre-
sent division of wards in said city, shall be deemed to ap-

Election on
2nd Wednes-
day.

ply to the division into twenty wards by this act directed.
SEC. 9. And be it enacted, That hereafter, elections
for Mayor and City Council shall be held on the second
Wednesday instead of the third Monday of October as
heretofore.

Repealed.

SEC. 10. And be it enacted, That all acts or parts of
acts of the General Assembly, and ordinances of the Mayor
and City Council of Baltimore, inconsistent with the pro-
visions of this act shall be, and the same are hereby re-
pealed.

CHAPTER 283.

Passed March
10, 1845.

An act to exempt free negroes of this State, from the oper-
ation of an act therein mentioned, in certain cases.

Permit from
Orphans court

Be it enacted by the General Assembly of Maryland,
That the provisions of an act passed at the present ses-
sion of the General Assembly, entitled an act to repeal a
part of the second section of an act, passed at December
session, eighteen hundred and thirty-one, chapter three
hundred and twenty-three, shall not be construed to re-
strain the free people of color, residents of the State of
Maryland from going and remaining out of this State more
than thirty days between the first day of May, and the first
day of November, in every year; provided, when such