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A Supplement to the act entitled an act concerning Crimes and Punishments. 1817 62 (1817)

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Dec. Scs. 1817 shall be refused, or neglected to be paid within Dve days, then all
6'r-*'   the power and aut.hority 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 st.eet.
Board of lec-  11. And be it enacted, That the commissioners for the laying out
tors.      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 commissions
ers 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 co 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 fillet as aforesaid.
Oath of com.  12. Asid be it eatcted, That the commissioners appointed und-r
missioners,  this act, shall ea;ch 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
commissionerin 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.
Acts repealed.  13. .And be it enacted, That the act, entitled, An act for the
opening and extending ot 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.
CIAPTER 72.
Passed Jan 29 A Supplement to the act, entitled. Ai act concerning Crimes
Directors to                   and Punishments.
appoint keeper  Sec. 1. Be it enacted by the.cneral Assembly of .ifaryland, That
and assistants, the Inspectors of the Penitentiary be hereafter styled the Direc.
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