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Passed May
31, 1852.
Authority to
appoint per-
sons to value
property held
jointly by city
and county of
Baltimore,
&c.
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AN ACT to provide for the valuation and severance
of the ownership of property now held jointly by the
City and County of Baltimore.
SECTION 1. Be it enacted by the General Assembly
of Maryland, That on or before the first Monday of
August, eighteen hundred and fifty-two, the county
commissioners of Baltimore county, shall appoint three
discreet persons, inhabitants of said county, and the
Mayor and City Council of Baltimore city, shall also
appoint by ordinance, three discreet persons, inhabi-
tants of said city, who shall, and are hereby required to
estimate the present actual value of the entire property
of every description, now held jointly by the city and
county of Baltimore, and shall proceed to divide the
same equally between the parties, so far as the same
may in their opinion be susceptible of specific division,
without prejudice to the interests of either party, or in
case the division thus contemplated cannot be effected,
then the persons respectively appointed by the county
commissioners of Baltimore county, and by the Mayor
and City Council of Baltimore, shall assign to the one
or to the other, any particular part of the whole, with
such sum of money added to the lesser valued pro-
perty, as shall make the lesser equal to the greater
valued properly, and which difference shall be stated in
the report hereinafter required to be made, and said per-
sons so appointed, shall have free access to every part
of the property, held by the county and city of Balti-
more jointly, and to all records and memoranda what-
soever, appertaining to the subject matter of their investi-
gation, and shall have the power to compel the pro-
duction of papers, and also, if in their opinion, neces-
sary to the ends of justice, shall have power to summon
witnesses, and administer to them the usual oaths to
testify according to the truth.
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