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LAWS OF MARYLAND.

Dec. Ses. 1817.

Amount to be
collected.

Obstructions
to be removed.

Proviso.
Acts repealed.

2. And be it enacted, That the city collector of Baltimore be and
he is hereby authorised and required, to collect from the persons
so chargeable the amount of the said valuation, with six per cen-
tum thereon for collecting the same, and if need be to sell the pro-
perty, or such part thereof as may be necessary to satisfy and pay
the portion of said value assessed thereon, if the same be not paid
within two months after the return of such assessment shall have
been made, of the time and place of which sales ten days previous
notice shall be given in writing to the persons chargeable with such
payments, if resident in the city of Baltimore, or left at their places of
abode, and the property, and upon such sales the collector afore-
said shall make conveyances of such estate or interest as the per-
sons chargeable with such assessment may have held in the proper-
ty sold to the purchasers thereof, and the amount of the valuation
of said lot shall be paid over by the said collector to the orphans
court of Baltimore county, to be invested, under the direction of
said court, in such stock or funds as they may deem most beneficial
for those now interested in the said lot, and to be held and enjoy-
ed by them in the same rights and benefits as they now hold the
lot aforesaid.
3. And be it enacted, That when the said valuation shall have been
so paid over to the orphans court aforesaid, and not before, the
city commissioners of Baltimore shall proceed to have all obstruc-
tions or buildings removed from the said lot, and the same shall
he and remain a public highway forever thereafter; Provided howe-
ver, that if the mayor and city council of Baltimore shall at their
next session determine that a fire-engine house might be erected
upon the said lot, without impeding or obstructing the public con-
venience, and shall then permit the same to be done, in such case
the valuation aforesaid shall be paid by the city, and not assessed'
or collected as provided by this act.
4. And be it enacted, That the several acts of assembly hereto-
fore passed relating to the opening or making public said lot, be
and the same are hereby repealed.

Passed Jan. 31.

Any person
convicted of
injuring buoys
to be confined
in penitentiary.

CHAPTER 86.

An act for the preservation of Buoys in the Patapsco River
and Chesapeake Bay.
Sec. 1. Be it enacted by the General Assembly of Maryland, That
every person, his or her aiders and abettors, who shall be convict-
ed before any court exercising criminal jurisdiction at the place
where the offender may be arrested, or may reside, of the crime of
stealing, cutting away, or in any manner wilfully injuring, any of
the buoys, their mooring chains and stones, which are now moor-
ed, or may hereafter be moored, in the Patapsco river, or in the
Chesapeake bay, by the direction of the insurance companies of
the city of Baltimore, shall be sentenced to undergo a confinement
in the penitentiary-house of the state of Maryland, for a period
not exceeding seven years, at the discretion of the court who may
try the offence, and the persons sentenced as aforesaid shall be
kept therein, and in all things be treated and dealt with as other
criminals, under the like sentences, in the penitentiary afore-
said.