The Baltimore County union. [volume] (Towsontown, Md.) 1865-1909, 1874-04-25
Local L0Us.
DUBLIC LOCAL LAW.

AN ACT to extend the limits of Baltimore City
by including and annexing part or portion
of Baltimore County in and to the said city,
and to provide for taking vote of the peo-
pie residing in said part or portion to be so
annexed for or against such annexation.
Sec. l; Be i enacted By the General Assembly
of Maryland, That all that portion of Balti-
more county which is included within the fol-
lowing metes and bounds, that is to say :
Bounded on the east by line parallel to and
distant easterly one mile from the east side of
East avenue, as laid out on the Canton Compa-
ny's grounds, and extending and running from
point where it intersects the north or second
ly herein described line southerly to the chan
mel OF the Patapsco river, or the boundary be-
tween Baltimore and Anne Arundel counties
and bounded on the north by line distant
northeriy two miles from the north side of
Boundary or North avenue at North street, and
to run parallel with and to Townsend street,
as laid down on Poppleton's Map of Baltimore,
to the eatward of Cathedral street, said line ex.
tending from point where it intersects the
line first herein described to a point where it
intersects a line thirdly herein described, and
bounded on the west by line run parallel to
and distant westerly one mile from the west
side of Payson street, as laid down on Popple-
toms Map of Baltimore city, and extending
from the north or secondly herein described
line to point where it intersects the southern
or fourthly herein described line, at low water
mark, on the south shore of the Patapsco, and
running thence for the southern boundary with
the shore of the said river at low water mark,
to the eastern boundary of the Main Hospital
property, and thence by straight line, to the
south terminus of the first herein described
line in the channel of the Patapsco from the
eastern to the western boundary lines as herein
described, be and the same is hereby annexed
and made part of the city of Baltimore pro-
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sense of the people by ballot shall be complied
with.
Sec. 2. And be ii enacted, That the Govern
or of the State shall appoint three Judges of
Election for each election district or portion of
each district or precinct to be annexed as here
in provided for the said Judges shall be resi-
dents and voters in Baltimore county, and the
County Commissioners of Baltimore county
shall designate the place for holding said cleo
ton, and said election shall be held on the first
Tuesday in May, 1874, and in the same manner
that elections are held for Delegates to the Gen
eral Assembly of Maryland. The Judges of
Election shall not receive the ballot of any per-
son whose name is not upon the registration
books, and who does not reside within the linn
its proposed to be annexed, and the Return
Judges shall certify the result of such voting
to the Governor, and to the Clerk of the Circuit
Court of Baltimore county, and to the Clerk of
the Superior Court of Baltimore city, and if the
highest number of votes of those voting for or
against said annexation shall be for annexation,
then the said part of Baltimore county within
the bounds and courses described in this act
shall become and constitute part or portion
of Baltimore city, and the Governor shall issue
his proclamation to that effect, and the inhabi-
tants thereof shall thenceforth enjoy all the
rights and privileges now held and enjoyed BY
the citizens of Baltimore city.
Sec 3. And be 1t enacted, That if the said
part of Baltimore county shall be annexed as
required by the provisions of this act, then all
the provisions of the act entitled Gan Act to
erect Baltimore town in Baltimore county into
a city, and incorporate the inhabitants thereof"
and all acts supplementary and in addition to
the said act shall be and the same are hereby
extended and applied to said part of Baltimore
county so annexed and to the inhabitants there
of; provided that nothing in this act contain
ed shall be held to repeal, or in any manner
affect or interfere with the provisions Of the acts
of 1870, chapter 80, entitled, Gan Act to lay off
streets in Baltimore county, adjoining Balti
more city," and to repeal certain acts inconsis-
tent Herewith, and the acts of 1872, chapter
rs, entitled entitled "a supplement thereto
and chapter sS7, entitled can Act to repeal and
re-enact with amendments part thereof and all
other supplements and amendments thereto or
to inYalidate any proceedings that may have
been taken, or may be pending, or may hereaf-
ter be taken under the provisions of said acts,
or any supplements thereto, but the said acts
and supplements and every part thereof and
including all rights of appeal and other rights
created and guaranteed thereby, and all offices,
duties and powers now existing and exercised,
or hereafter to exist and be exercised under and
according to the provisions of said acts and
supplements shall continue in full force and
effect until the next session of the Legislature,
when, if the said annexation shall have been
effected and required by this act, proper pro-
visions shall be made by the Legislature for
distributing equitably between Baltimore coun-
ty and the city of Baltimore the expenses which
may have hitherto and hereafter be incurred
by the County Commissioners and the Street
Commissioners OF Baltimore county in the ex-
ecution of the aforesaid acts and supplements
thereto.
Sec. 4. And be IL enacted, That the Mayor
and City Council Of Baltimore shall be and are
hereby authorized and empowered to appoint
two Commissioners, and the County Commits
sieners of Baltimore county shall appoint one
Commissioner, and it shall be the duty of said
Commissioners, or majority of them, upon no.
tice given, to cause the metes and bounds, de-
scribed in the first section of this act, to be
forthwith surveyed and distinctively marked,
and if the said portion of Baltimore county be
annexed, as required by the provisions of this
act, to have said bounds and limits distinctive
ly marked, and suitable boundary stones mark
ed as boundaries between the said city and
county, to be placed at the beginning and ter
miEation of each line, and boundary stones
marked as aforesaid, and not at greater dis
lance than one hundred perches from each
other, to be placed on all lines which are not
in the water and do not run with some natural
boundaries, and the Mayor and City Council of
Baltimore shall cause plat of the said survey
to be made and duly certified, to be returned
and be recorded in the Clerks Office of the Su-
perior Court of Baltimore city and in the Office
of the Clerk of the Circuit Court for Baltimore
county, among the Land Records of Baltimore
city, and certified copies of said plat shall be
admitted as evidence in all the Courts of this
State; and the said Mayor and City Council
shall pay the said Commissioners So per day
for the time they may be engaged in the dis
charge of their duties, and shall pay all other
expenses that may be incurred in carrying cut
the provisions of this act
Sec. 5. and be 1t enacted, That when the
said annexation shall have been effected as re-
quired by this act, that the Mayor and City
Council of Baltimore shall cause the said pur-
ton so annexed to be divided and laid out into
such number of new wards as to give to each
as nearly may be possible the same numhe.
OF inhabitants as are required for the present
wards of the city and to have an even number
of wards and such diversion shall from time
to time be altered and corrected as is provided
for each new ward there shall be one member
of the First Branch of the City Council aud for
all two wards created there shall be one mem
Der of the Second Branch of the City Council
qualified and selected as from the present
wards
Sec. g. And be ii enacted, That after said an
nexation required by this act, that the said
new wards to be laid off by this act, and the in
habitants thereof, shall in all respects and to
all intents and purposes be subject to the pow
ers, jurisdiction, authority vested OF to be vested
by law in the Mayor aud City Council of Bal
timore and in the Corporation of said city, and
to all ordinances of the Mayor and City Coun-
Gil now in force or hereafter to be enacted, and
said portion so annexed shall in all respects be
taken and considered part of said city aud
corporation providad that all property real and
personal having its stus within the territory
SO to be annexed, shall be assessed for the pur
pose of city taxation at one-half of the amount
Of its cash value for the period of ten years after
the passage of this act, except where five are
actually built upon any square or block of
ground in said territory SO annexed and front
upon paved street, then the said property so
built on. and the personal property of the per-