incorporated and empowered to sue and be sued, and was brought. supervisors. Sub-Sec. 2. The supervisors of the district, and con- Powers of tractors under them, shall have the right of going upon adjoining lands for material or for the purpose of drainage, the district being liable in all cases for actual damage done to the owners of lands by such encroachment, the amount to be determined by the local boards, with appeal to the central board in case of any party feeling Appeal. aggrieved by the decision of the local boards. Sub-Sec. 3. In all cases the warrant of the central Payment of any money due, time allowed. board upon the local boards for the payment of new road, how board. Sub-Sec. 4. Whenever any person shall desire the Application for opening of a new road, to which they may deem them- made. selves entitled, he or they may make application by petition to the local board of such district as the proposed road will traverse, and it shall be the duty of Duty of local the said board to visit and examine the locality and determine upon the propriety of granting the said road, and shall proceed to assess the expense therefor upon the parties interested and the districts respectively in such proportion as they may deem just and proper. payment. Sub-Sec. 5. Whenever there shall be insufficient Certificates of money in the treasury of any district to meet the requirements of this law for immediate expenses of construction or repair, it shall be the duty of the supervisors of said district to provide the money by issuing List of persons assessed. Rules and regulations. certificates of payment for road purposes, based upon the next annual levy of taxes, said certificates to bo disposed of by them to the best advantage. Sub-Sec. 6. The commissioners of Baltimore county, upon the application of the local board of any primary district shall furnish a list of all persons assessed in that district, and the valuation of their property. Sub-Sec. 7. The various boards created by this act shall have full authority to adopt and enforce all rules and regulations necessary to carry into full effect all the provisions of this act. This act further provides that it shall take effect from the date of its passage, and the general assembly reserves the right to alter, amend or repeal this act at pleasure. In force and approved March 30, 1868. 1868, c. 281 also repeals and re-enacts section 155 of this article to read as follows: 155. The county commissioners of Baltimore county are authorized and empowered to lay out, condemn and open for the length of not exceeding one mile, in Baltimore county, any street or streets, leading from the city of Baltimore, and which may have been paved to the line of Baltimore county. In force and approved March 30, 1868. SCHOOLS. By the act of 1868, c. 393 the county commissioners of Baltimore county are authorized and required, for and in consideration of the sum of five dollars, to convey a half acre of land to the board of school commissioners of Baltimore county, to be used as a public school house site, the same being part of the land owned by Baltimore county, and designated as lot No. 2, on the map of the almshouse property, and which is described as follows: Beginning for the same at the angle formed by the intersection of the Calverton road and the Garrison Forrest road, and having for its boundaries the intersected sides of said roads, and an east and west line running from one of said roads to the other, which line shall be parallel with the Franklin turnpike road. That the said board of school commissioners shall have said lot of ground surveyed by the county surveyor, and the deed for the same shall be made in accordance with the courses and distances determined by said survey, and the said county commissioners shall forthwith execute said deed. CITY COUNCIL. 1868, c. 451 repeals section 20 [Sup. 383] and re-enacts the same as follows: 1868, c. 451. Time of meet ing. Provisos. Proviso. SEC. 20. The city council of Baltimore shall meet on the first Monday of November of each and every year, and may continue in session for one hundred and twenty days, and no longer; provided, that they may by ordinance or resolution so arrange their sittings that the same may be held continuously or otherwise; and provided further, that the mayor may convene the said city council in extra session as he may now do by virtue of the 4th section of the 11th article of the constitution; and provided further, that the city council of Baltimore shall not sit during the present year, ending October 30th, 1868, for more than one hundred and twenty days, including the days of the extra sessions of 1867, and the present regular sessions, unless convened in extra session, as aforesaid, by the mayor. In force and approved March 30, 1868. CITY OFFICERS. 1868, c. 2 repeals section 26 and substitutes the following therefor: 1868, c. 2. What officers to sure of mayor. evidence. 26. All persons holding office under the corporation hold at plea- of the city shall, unless a different term of holding be provided by law or ordinance, hold such office at the Commission, pleasure of the mayor, and the issuing of a commission by the mayor to any person as an officer of said corporation shall be evidence prima facie in any court in this state of the regularity and sufficiency of the appointment and qualifications of such person as such officer. In force and approved January 22, 1868. ALMSHOUSE. 1868, c. 1 entitled an act to repeal sections thirty-four, thirty-five, thirty-six, thirtyseven and thirty-eight of the fourth article of the Code of Public Local Laws, relating to the city of Baltimore, and to substitute in lieu of sections thirty-four, thirty-five and thirty-seven the following, repeals sections 34, 35, 36 and 37 of this article and enacts that the following be substituted for sections 34, 35 and 37: [Sup. 383.] Trustees of the pointed. 34. The mayor and city council have power to pro-1868, c. 1. vide by ordinance for the appointment, as other city poor, how apofficers are appointed, of the trustees of the poor, of Baltimore city, and to prescribe the powers and duties of such trustees. Provided, that until the mayor and Proviso. city council shall have acted in the premises, the powers and duties of the trustees of the poor of Baltimore city shall be such as are prescribed in and by those sections of this article under the title almshouse not hereby repealed; and provided further, that when Proviso. the said mayor and city council shall have, by ordi- Ordinance to nance, prescribed the powers and duties of the trustees of the poor of Baltimore city, then, and in that event, the operation of the sections of this article, from thirtynine to sixty-nine inclusive, shall cease, and the said Effect of same. sections, from thirty-nine to sixty-nine, inclusive, shall be ipso facto repealed. be passed. perty. 35. All titles to property of any and every kind Title to pronow held by the trustees of the poor of Baltimore city shall be, and they are hereby transferred to and invested in the mayor and city council of Baltimore to all intents and purposes, and all powers and privileges heretofore conferred upon the said trustees of the poor of Baltimore city shall be, and they are hereby transferred to and conferred upon the mayor and city council of Baltimore. 37. Each trustee so appointed shall, before he proceeds to act, take and subscribe before the mayor the oath of office prescribed in the sixth section of the first article of the constitution. Powers and pri vileges. Oath of trus tees. |