The Baltimore County union. [volume] (Towsontown, Md.) 1865-1909, 1886-01-02

authorized and required to appoint one Commi |
soner; and it shall be the duty of said Commit |
soners, or a majority of them, to cause the NETS |
and bounds of the territory described in the Firt
Section of this Act to be forthwith surveyed, fir |
ed, located and distinctly marked by the count, |
of Baltimore county and the Surveyed |
of Baltimore city and if the portion of Baltimore
described in said section, shall be annex
ed to Baltimore city, under the provisions of this
Act, the said Commissioners shall have the bounds
and limits thereof distinctly marked, and suitable
boundary stones planted at the end and begin
ming of each of the said lines, and at such lte
walls on the said lines as they shall iconsits. ne
cessary and proper; and the Mayor and Cit.:-
Council of Baltimore shall cause two plats of said
survey to be made by said surveyors, and to be
duly certified and filed and recorded-one of
them among the Land Records in the Office of the
Clerk of the Superior Court of Baltimore city,
and one of them among the Land Records of the
Circuit Court of Baltimore county and certified
copies of said plats shall be admitted as evidence
in all the Courts of this State and The said Mayor
and City Council of Baltimore shall pay each of
the said Commissioners five dollars day for the
time he shall be properly and reasonably engaged
in the discharge of the duty
Sec 10. And be it enacted by the General As
sembly of Maryland, that when the territory men,
toned in this Act, shall have been annexed to the
city of Baltimore, under its provisions the Police
coed to divide and lay off the same into precincts,
and shall, in doing so, proceed under the provis-
ions of the Act of the General Assembly of Mary
land, of eighteen hundred and eighty two, Chap
ter two, and when said precincts have been so
laid out, the Mayor and City Council of Balti-
more shall divide the said precincts into such mum.
Der of wards shall give to each ward, as nearly
as may be practicable the same number of inhab-
itants as are now contained in one of the present
wards of the city of Baltimore the said number
of wards so to be created to be an even numbers
there shall be elected one member of the First
Branch of the City Council of Baltimore, from
each of the said new wards, and one member of
the Second Branch of the City Council of Balti
more shall be elected from every two COR
wards and all the said new wa,
habitants, thereof shall, in ai. respects, d. III,
intents and purposes, be subject to the powers ia
risdiction ard authority vested, to be vestet by
law in the Mayor and City Council of Baltimore,
or in the various departments of the city g0virn-
ment, and in the Supreme Bench of Baltimore
city, and in all of the Courts of said city, and the
Justices of the Peace and other officers, and to all
ordinances now in force or hereafter to be enact
ed, except so far as they may be expressly excep
ted therefrom, and except so far as the same mag
be inconsistent with the provisions of this Ad
and the parts so annexed, shall in all respects lie
taken and considered as part of the said city #
Baltimore provided, however, that all Officers
appointed by the Governor, with the advice ard
consent of the Senate, shall continue in the dis
charge of their duties for the full term of their
appointment or election, in the same manner asif
this Act had not passed; and the Governor shall
nominate and appoint one additional Justice Of
the Peace for each ward that shall be established
under the provisions of this Act.
Sec. III. And be it enacted by the General As
sembly of Maryland, that the territory described
in the first section of this Act, if it be annexed 10
the city of Baltimore, shall become and form part
of the Second Legislative District of Baltimore
city.
SEC II. And be it enacted by the General As
sembly of Maryland, that the county taxes levied
for the year 1885, upon property which is now as
sessed in Baltimore county, but which after the
annexation contemplated by this statute will be
assessable in Baltimore city, shall be payable to
and collected by the Mayor and City Council of
Baltimore, and until the year 1900 the rate of
taxation for city purposes of all real property
having its situs within the territory which under
the provisions of this Act shall be annexed to
Baltimore City, and of all personal property be-
longing to residents of said territory which would
pay taxes in Baltimore county if said territory
had not been annexed, but which by reason of
said annexation will pay taxes in Baltimore city,
shall at time exceed the present tax rate in
Baltimore county, and there shall be no increase
for the purpose of taxation of the present assess
menL VI any sucu pTopeTty uhtii tho eaiu yoai
1900, provided, however, that any new property
acquired by the residents of the said territory
whether in the form of personal property or of
improvements by the erection of buildings upon
real estate shall be assessed at the true valuation
thereof, and the rate of taxation thereon shall be
seventy per centum of the city rate until the
year 1900 and provided, further, that the city
authorities shall expend within said territory the
revenue derived from taxation on the basis herein
fNrfh frOra in fordi 10
the residents thereof all the rights and privileges
accorded to, and enjoyed by the citizens of said
city generally, but the expenditures for such pur-
poses within the said territory until the year
1900, shall not be required to exceed the revenue
derived therefrom after the lapse of the said
term, the said property, real and personal, of the
territory so annexed, shall be liable to taxation
in the same manner and form as shall be thssese
city or paying taxes to the Mayor and Cit
Council of Baltimore.
SEC. Is. And be it enacted by the General As
sembIy of Maryland, that if the territory describ
ed in this Act, shall, under its provisions become
annexed to Baltimore city, the County Commits
sioners of Baltimore county are hereby directed,
in lieu of such places for holding elections in
Baltimore county as are now fixed by law, which
are situated within the territory so annexed, to
fix other places outside of the territory so annex
ed and if the annexation of the territory, under
the provisions of this Act, shall leave part of
any election precinct Of Baltimore county still
within the limits of said county, and part with
in the annexed territory, then the part so left |
within the lines of Baltimore county, shall con-
sttute the same election precinct of Baltimore
county as the whole now constitutes.
Sec. IA. And be it enacted by the General
Assembly of Maryland, that if the said portion of
Baltimore county be annexed to the city of Balti-
more, the Mayor and City Council of Baltimore
shall cause to be copied and thereafter to be
tilted by the Clerk of the Circuit Court for Balti-
more county, all of the land and mortgage indexes
and records, judicial records, and dockets and |
other books in his Office essential to or used in |
the examination of titles to real and personal |
and shall also cause to be made and |
thereafter to be certified by the Register of Wills
for Baltimore county, all of the books, records |
and indexes in the Office of the Register of Wills |
for Baltimore county, anu uause the copies made |
in the Office of the Clerk of the Circuit Court for
Baltimore county, to be deposited public records
in the office of the Clerk of the superior Court of
Baltimore city, and the copies made in the office |
Of the Register of Wills for Baltimore county to |
be deposited as public records in the Office of |
The Register of Wills for Baltimore CITY,
Sec 16. Aud be it enacted by the General As |
sembly of Maryland, that NO spirituous or fer |
nented liquors shall be sold after annexation |
within any portion of said territory so annexed |
where the same are now prohibited by law to be
sold !; and the Clerk of the Court of Common Pleas |
If Baltimore city is hereby prohibited from issu-
ng any license licenses for the sale of the same
within any part of the annexed territory where |
he Clerk of the Circuit Court for Baltimore coun-
y is at the time of the passage Of this Act pro-
libited from issuing licenses.
Sec. Is. And be it further enacted by the Gen. |
,ral Assembly of Maryland, that this Act shall
AXE effect from the date of its passage.