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Dec. Ses. 1817
Board of elec-
tors.
Oath of com-
missioners.
Acts repealed.
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shall be refused, or neglected to be paid within five days, then all
the power and authority invested in the said city commissioners
and port wardens, to open and extend said street, shall be abrogat-
ed and annulled, and all further proceedings under the said act
shall cease, until such payment be made or tendered; and if the
said sum should be claimed by any other person, such claim shall
not impede the execution of this act in opening said street.
11. And be it enacted, That the commissioners for the laying out
and surveying the said street shall be appointed, and all vacancies
happening therein from time to time be supplied, by a board of
electors constituted of Walter Dorsey, Charles W. Hanson, Alex-
ander Nisbet, Owen Dorsey, Robert Walsh, James A. Buchanan
and William Cooke, Esquires; the number of the said commission-
er! shall be seven, and a majority of the said board of electors, of
the board of the commissioners, of the judges of Baltimore county
court, and of the board constituted of the city commissioners and
port wardens, shall respectively be competent to exercise all the
powers, and to perform all the duties, granted or imposed by this
act, upon them respectively; and where legal disabilities exist in
the proprietors of property affected by this act, they may be fully
represented by the persons authorised by law to act for them in
other cases; and before the said board of electors shall proceed to
act under the authority of this law, they shall take an oath to ap-
point said commissioners without favour, affection or partiality, to
the best of their skill and judgment, which oath shall be taken on
or before the first Monday in March next, and the first appointment
of commissioners shall be made within ten days thereafter; and
any vacancy happening in said board, from neglect to take such
oath, or otherwise, shall be filled within ten days thereafter by the
electors, or a majority of them, who shall have so qualified; and
the person so appointed shall within ten days thereafter take the
like oath, or his place shall be filled as aforesaid.
12. And be it enacted, That the commissioners appointed under
this act, shall each take and subscribe the following oath or affir-
mation, before some one of the said board of electors: " I, A. B.
do swear, (or solemnly affirm) that I will execute the duties of a
commissioner in pursuance of an act, entitled, An act to provide
for the opening and extension of Pratt-street in the city of Balti-
more, to the best of my skill and judgment, with diligence, integri-
ty and impartiality;" and if any person appointed a commissioner
shall neglect to take the said oath, (or make the said affirmation)
within ten days after his appointment, he shall be presumed to
have declined it, and his place shall be supplied; and the said com-
missioners shall each be entitled to six dollars per diem as a com-
pensation for his services.
13. And be it enacted, That the act, entitled, An act for the
opening and extending of Pratt-street in the city of Baltimore,
passed November session eighteen hundred and eleven, and the se-
veral supplements thereto, be and the same are hereby repealed.
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