E. LOUIS LOWE, ESQUIRE, GOVERNOR.

1852.

time they may deem wise, equitable and expedient for
the comfort, health, convenience and prosperity of said
town and its inhabitants, for the prevention and re-
moval of nuisances, preservation of health, and sup-
pression of vice and immorality, within the limits of
said town, and shall have power to lay an equal tax
on the property within the limits of the said town, to
such amounts as may from time to time be deemed
necessary to accomplish the purposes aforesaid, which
tax shall be collected and paid to the said burgess and
commissioners, by a collector, by them appointed, who
shall have the same power to destrain therefor as the
collector of the public county assessment has to distrain
for the same, and that the said burgess and commis-
sioners shall fix the term of office, responsibility and
compensation of such collector.

CHAP. 183.

SEC. 11. And be it enacted. That nothing in this
act shall be so construed as to authorise this corporation
to issue any note, token, device, scrip or other evidence

of debt, to be used as currency.

Banking for-
bid.

SEC. 12. And be it enacted, That this act shall take
effect and go into full operation from and after the date

of its passage.

CHAPTER 183.

In force.

AN ACT pursuant to the sixth section of the tenth
article of the Constitution, relative to Judges of
Elections.

Passed May
25, 1852.

SECTION 1. Be it enacted by the General Assembly

of Maryland, That the act entitled, an act to reduce
into one the several acts of Assembly respecting elec-
tions, and to regulate said elections, passed at the ses-
sion of eighteen hundred and rave, chapter ninety-seven,
and the several supplements thereto, shall be in force
and have effect in all elections, held pursuant to the
present Constitution, so far as the same are applicable,
and are not altered or supplied by this act.

Act of 1805,
chap. 97, in
force, so far as
rot altered by
this act.

SEC. 2. And be it enacted, That the judges of
elections shall be appointed annually, that is to say,
those for the several counties, by the county commis-
sioners; and for the city of Baltimore, by the Mayor,
and a convention of the two branches of the city
council, as city officers are now appointed.

Judges to be
appointed an-
nually.