whether any damage and what amount of damage has been caused or whether any benefit, and what amount of benefit has accrued to them; and to provide for collecting and paying over the amount of compensation adjudged to each person to receive the same, or investing in stock of said corporation bearing interest of five per centum per annum for the use of any person who because of infancy, absence from the city, or other cause, may be prevented from receiving it before any sewer shall be constructed, opened, enlarged or straightened in any street, lane or alley, or through any private property, and to enact and pass all ordinances from time to time which shall be deemed necessary and proper to exercise the power and effect the objects herein specified.

Benefits assess

808. The amount of benefit assessed on any pro- Ibid. s. 2. perty for constructing, opening, enlarging or straight-ed, a lien. ening any sewer in any street, lane or alley, or through any private property constructed, opened, enlarged or straightened by virtue of any ordinance passed by the mayor and city council of Baltimore, shall be a lien on the property and recoverable as city taxes are.

Passage of ordi

809. Before the mayor and city council of Balti- Ibid. s. 3. more shall pass any ordinance under the first section of nance. this act, notice shall be given of an application for the Notice to be passage of such an ordinance in at least two of the daily newspapers of said city twice a week for sixty days.

given.

Commission

810. Before any commissioners appointed by any Ibid. s. 4. ordinance of said corporation under the preceding sec- ers. tions of this act shall proceed to the performance of their duty, they shall give daily notice in at least two Notice to be newspapers in the city of Baltimore of the object of of ordinance. the ordinance under which they propose to act, at least thirty days before the time of the first meeting to execute the same.

given of object

Tax.

811. Should the commissioners appointed by thelbid. s. 5. mayor and city council of Baltimore to levy any part of the expense and damage incurred in the construction, opening, enlarging or straightening any sewer in

the city, the said mayor and city council may levy a tax on the assessable property of the city for the amount of such assessment, or they may raise the necessary amount by a loan, for the payment of which Sinking fund. they may create a sinking fund to meet the liabilities incurred, and may also levy on the assessable property of the city of Baltimore from time to time such sums as may be necessary to provide therefor, and for the principal and interest of the liabilities incurred, and may pass all ordinances necessary to carry out the provisions of the same.

In force and approved March 28, 1868.

WATER.

1868, c. 467 repeals section 939, as enacted by 1866, c. 38, [Sup. 473] and re-enacts the same so as to read as follows:

1868, c. 647. Baltimore water stock.

Water rates.

939. For the purpose of defraying all the expenses and costs of said lands, waters and water-rights as shall have been taken for the purposes aforesaid, and of constructing all works necessary to the accomplishment of said purposes, and all expenses incident thereto, the said mayor and city council of Baltimore shall have authority in the name of the city to issue certificates of debt to be denominated on the face Baltimore water stock, to an amount not exceeding four millions and five hundred thousand dollars, bearing interest not exceeding six per cent. per annum, and to provide by ordinance for the redemption of the same at a certain time, and under such provisions as the mayor and city council may deem expedient and proper; the said mayor and city council are hereby authorized and empowered to assess rates for the supply and use of water at any point in Baltimore city and county, and the mayor and city council are hereby authorized to enforce payment for the use of water, and other expenses incurred in the introduction of water from the water mains, according to the rates established by the said

police force.

mayor and city council, said payments to be enforced by the same process that city or state taxes are collected, or they may be collected by process before a justice of the peace, or in any of the courts of the city of Baltimore having jurisdiction in such cases; and the said mayor and city council are hereby authorized and empowered to appoint watchmen or such police force Watchman and as may be necessary for the protection of their water works in the city and county of Baltimore, and to impose fines and penalties for interference with or injury to the works or their appendages, to prevent the water from being obstructed or contaminated, and to prohibit all meddling or tampering with the water works and their appurtenances; said fines and penalties Fines and penshall be enforced as provided in this article, sections two hundred and twenty-nine to two hundred and thirty-five, inclusive.

In force and approved March 30, 1868.

alties.

1858, c. 439, entitled an act to regulate the time of holding the respective circuit courts for the counties composing the seventh judicial circuit of Maryland, and to repeal the Local Laws for the said counties in reference thereto, enacts the following:

Regular terms

in seventh judi

cial circuit.

SEC. 22. There shall be two regular terms for the 1868, c. 439, s. 1. respective circuit courts for the several counties of St. Mary's, Prince George's, Calvert and Charles, composing the seventh judicial circuit of this state,

Ibid. s. 2. Intermediate terms.

Ibid. s. 3. Jurors.

to which jurors shall be summoned, and that said terms shall be held at the following times: for St. Mary's county, at Leonardtown, on the third Mondays of March and September in each year; for Prince George's county, at Upper Marlboro,' on the first Mondays of April and October in each year; for Calvert county, at Prince Frederick, on the first Monday of May and the Wednesday next after the first Monday of November in each year, and for Charles county, at Port Tobacco, on the third Mondays of May and November in each year.

23. There shall be two other and intermediate terms of each of said courts, to which jurors shall not be summoned, to be held at the several places mentioned, and at the following times: for St. Mary's county, on the first Mondays of June and December; for Prince George's county, on the third Mondays of June and January; for Calvert county, on the first Mondays of July and February, and for Charles county, on the third Mondays of July and February in each year.

24. The jurors drawn for or summoned to any of said circuit courts, which under existing laws would have taken place at times different from those herein provided, shall be the jurors for the terms of said courts as so changed, and shall be summoned or notified, as the case may require, to attend at the time or times so herein fixed and provided.

This act further enacts that sections 24 and 30 of Article XVIII of Public Local Laws for St. Mary's county; sections 40 and 41, Article XVI of same for Prince George's county; sections 22 and 23, Article V of same for Calvert county, and sections 31 and 32, article IX of same for Charles county, as amended by c. 75 of the acts of assembly for the year 1866, be and are hereby severally and respectively repealed. [Sup. 532.]

In force and approved March 30, 1868.

JUSTICES OF THE PEACE AND CONSTABLES.

1868, c. 95 repeals section 32 of this article and substitutes the following:

32. There shall be the following number of justices of the peace and constables for Calvert county, to wit: for election district number one, four justices of the peace and two constables; for election district number two, four justices of the peace and two constables; and for election district number three, four justices of the peace and two constables.

In force and approved March 3, 1868.

1868, c. 95. tices and con

Number of jus

stables.

INTERNAL IMPROVEMENTS.

1868, c. 454 recites that whereas by section thirty-four of the third article of the constitution, authority is given to extend the aid of the state in behalf of the construction of works of internal improvements in the counties of St. Mary's, Charles and Calvert, which said counties have beretofore received no direct benefit from works heretofore aided by the state; and whereas it is deemed right and proper that such appropriation should be now made; therefore it enacts that the sum of five hundred thousand dollars be and the same is hereby appropriated and set apart for the construction of works of internal improvements in the said counties, to be distributed to the said counties respectively as follows: to Charles county, the sum of one hundred and seventy-five thousand dollars; to St. Mary's county, the sum of one hundred and seventy-three thousand dollars; and to Calvert county, the sum of one hundred and fifty-two thousand dollars; and as soon as it shall appear to the treasurer of this state, by the affidavit of the president of any railroad company, now chartered, or which may hereafter be chartered in said counties respectively, that bona fide subscriptions to the capital stock of any such company, equal in amount to the sum by this act authorized and directed to be given to such county, shall be actually made either in land or money, the treasurer of this state shall be and he is hereby authorized and required, in the name and behalf of the state, upon the recommendation of the county commissioners of said county making such application, to subscribe for so many shares of the capital stock of the company as shall amount to the sum which, by this act, is distributed and applied to said county; and the said treasurer shall, out of any unappropriated money in the treasury, pay the instal ments on each share of the capital stock of said company or companies, for which he shall subscribe as aforesaid, on the warrant of the comptroller, which the latter officer is hereby directed to issue, as the said instalments may be called for by the county commissioners of said county and agreeably to the provisions of the act incorporating said company or companies; provided, that the treasurer shall not at any time pay upon the state's subscription to the capital stock of any of the said companies a greater amount than shall have actually been subscribed and paid, as required by this act, by other subscribers to the capital stock of the said companies;