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SEC. 42." They shall keep a journal of their proceedings, and enter the yeas and nays upon any question, resolve or ordinance, if required by any one member, and their deliberations shall be public.
SEc. 43 .* The Mayor, Counsellor, and Aldermen may repair any private wharves belonging to persons who shall refuse, after two month's notice, to repair the same, and they may receive the wharf- age of such wharves until such repairs are paid for, or until the owners thereof shall pay the same.
Ssc. 49. The Mayor may take the acknowledgment of any deed or instrument of writing required to be ackowledged, and receive therefore the sum of fifty cents ; all by-laws and ordinances of the said Corporation shall be signed by the Mayor ; the Mayor shall dur- ing the first ten days in the month of January of each and every year, cause to be prepared and printed, for the information of the citizens, a statement of the finances of the said Corporation ; he may call upon any officer of the City, entrusted with the receipt and expenditure of public money, for a statement of his accounts, as often as he may deem it necessary ; he shall see that the ordinances are duly and faith- f illy executed.
SEC. 50. They may appoint from time to time, at such periods as they deem most proper and convenient, certain persons as Wardens of the Port of the City of Annapolis, nor more than five in number, who shall be removed at their pleasure.
SEc. 51. The persons so appointed shall, each, take the following oath : "I, A. B., do swear that I will discharge the trust of Warden * The original Sections 42, 43, 44, 45, 40, 47 and 48 repealed by Act of 1867, e. 240.
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of the Port of the City of Annapolis to the best of my ability, with- out favor, affection, or partiality."
SEC. 52. The Wardens, or a majority of them, shall have power to determine upon and regulate all matters relating to the erection or building of wharves in the said port, so far as respects the distance said wharves may be extended into the water, and the materials of which they shall be constructed, and the manner and form of con- struction, always keeping in view the preservation of the navigation of said port by not permitting any wharf to be carried out in such manner as to render the navigation of the same too close and confined, or to be built of such materials or constructed in such manner as may be deemed not sufficiently substantial and lasting.
SEC. 53. No person holding lands on the waters of said port, nor any person whatever, shall build any wharf, or carry out any earth or other material for that purpose, without license from said Wardens, or a majority of them, to do the same ; and if any person shall offend against the provisions of this section, or if any person shall build any wharf a greater distance into the waters of said port, or in a different form, or of different materials than determined and allowed by the Wardens, or a majority of them, he shall be subject to such fine as the Mayor, Counsellor, and Aldermen may ordain.
SEc. 54. In all differences that shall arise between any citizen of Annapolis and the said Wardens, touching the discharge of their duty, an appeal shall lie to the Mayor, Counsellor and Aldermen.
SEC. 55. It shall not be lawful for any person, whether licensed to sell spirituous liquors or not, to sell, dispose of, barter, or give, di- rectly or indirectly, within the corporate limits of the City of Annapo- lis, or within five miles thereof, any spirituous or fermented liquors or cordials of any kind, or in any quantity whatever, to any youth or minor under the age of twenty-one years, without the written order or consent of the parent or guardian of such minor ; nor to any Mid- shipman or Student connected with, or attached to the Naval Academy at Annapolis, or under orders to join or leave the said Academy ; nor to any seaman, ordinary seaman, landsman, marine, or boy, or any employee of the Navy, without a written order from a commissioned officer of the Navy, (not excluding hired laborers. ) nor to any Student of St. John's College without the written order of some Professor of said College ; and any person violating the provisions of this section shall be liable to indictment in the Circuit Court for Anne Arundel county, and, upon conviction thereof, shall be fined a sum of not less than fifty dollars, and not more than four hundred dollars, and shall be confined in jail until the said fine and costs of prosecution shall be paid ; provided, said confinement in jail shall not exceed sixty days ; but if any minor or person referred to in this section shall willfully misrepresent that he is of full age, or that he is not prohibited by this section, and thereby shall obtain any spirituous liquors, and the person selling the same shall be able to prove such misrepresentation, the said person selling to the said minor or other person so falsely representing himself shall not suffer any penalty, but shall pay all the costs incurred in such case ; provided, that the act of any agent under this section shall not be binding upon his principal, if the court or jury shall believe that the said act was committed against the bond fide instructions of said principal.
SEC. 56. If any person having a license of any kind, authorizing
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the sale of spirituous liquors, shall violate the provisions of the pre- ceding section, or permit any person in his employ to violate the same, at or in his tavern, shop, house, or place of business, or in or upon his premises, with his knowledge and consent, such license shall be sup- pressed by the Judge of said Court, and be declared null and void.
SEC. 57. The Judge of said Court shall, whenever complaint may be made to him by any two or more respectable citizens of said city, or any officer of the county or city, that any person having a license, as aforesaid, is or has been violating the provisions of Section 55 of this Article, examine witnesses and inquire into such alleged viola- tion ; and if, upon such examination and inquiry, it shall appear to his satisfaction that the party complained against has been guilty of such violation, the said Judge shall have full power immediately to suppress the license of such person, and no new license shall be granted to him or her.
SEC. 58. Any one order which may be given to any minor under the provisions of the fifty-fifth Section of this Article, shall not be available for the purpose for which it was given, for a longer period than two days from its date.
SEC. 59. It shall be the duty of the Sheriff of Anne Arundel County and his deputies, and of the Constables of the City of An- napolis, to exercise the utmost vigilance in order to detect all violations of this Article in relation to the sale of liquors to minors and others as forbidden by Section fifty-five, and to report immedi- ately any such violation to the Judge of the Circuit Court for said county, who shall forthwith direct the offending party to be brought before him, and shall require him to give adequate security for his appearance at the next term of said Court, and shall commit such party to jail in default of such security ; and if any Sheriff or Con- stable shall neglect to report to the Judge any such violation of the said section as soon as the same shall come to his knowledge, he shall be liable to a penalty of fifty dollars for each case of such neglect, to be recovered by any person in the name of the State by action of debt in said Court.
SEC. 60. All fines imposed and collected under the provisions of Section fifty-five of this Article shall go, one half to the informer (who is hereby made a competent witness) and the other half shall be divided equally between the State's Attorney and the Sheriff or other officer who shall have made report in the case to the Judge under the fifty-ninth Section of this Article.
SEC. 61. The Mayor, Counsellor, and each Alderman shall, in virtue of their office, have and exercise, within the limits of the Corporation, all the jurisdiction and powers of a Justice of the Peace.
SEC. 63.ª The Mayor may take the acknowledgement of any deed or instrument of writing required by law to be acknowledged, and shall receive therefor the sum of fifty cents.
SEC. 64. The Collector of Taxes in said city shall have the same power to collect the city taxes as the collectors of county taxes, and shall be governed by the same rules.
SEC. 65. When any tax shall be due upon real estate, and no per- sonal property shall be found thereon liable to the payment thereof the Collector shall report the fact to the Corporation at their monthly meeting in December, annually, and the Mayor, Counsellor, and · Sec. (2 repealed by Act of 1867, c. 240.
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Aldermen shall thereupon direct the real estate to be sold by the Col- lector for the payment of the said taxes, after giving notice in the public newspapers in the same manner as Collectors of County and State Taxes are required to do.
SEC. 66. The property in the City of Annapolis belonging to the Corporation is exempt from any tax to be levied by Anne Arundel .County.
SEC. 67. No ordinance of the Corporation shall impose a fine of more than twenty dollars for any one offence, or authorize a commit- ment to jail for more than thirty days at one time.
SEC. 68. All fines, penalties, and forfeitures for violation of any ordinance of the Corporation may be recovered before the Mayor, Counsellor, or some one of the Aldermen, or a Justice of the Peace ; and the Mayor, Counsellor, or Aldermen, or Justice, may commit the offender until the fine is paid, or he be discharged in due course of llaw.
SEC. 69. If any ordinance shall give part of a fine or penalty to the informer, or if such fine or penalty be discretionary, the judgment of the officer imposing the fine or declaring the penalty, shall specify how much of such fine or penalty shall be to the use of the Corpor- ation, and how much to the informer.
SEC. 70. No ordinance of the said Corporation shall be binding on persons who do not reside in the said city, until the same shall have been published in some newspaper of the said city, unless in case of wilful and intentional violation of said ordinance after notice thereof.
SEC. 71. The said Corporation shall pass no ordinance that shall be contrary to law.
SEC. 72. The inhabitants of the said city, and all persons holding property therein, shall be competent witness in all actions arising under the Charter or Ordinances of said city, if exempt from all other exceptions than that of interest as an inhabitant of said city, or mem- ber of said Corporation.
SEC. 73. All that part of the Charter of the City of Annapolis which gives to the Mayor, Counsellor, or Aldermen the power of holding a Court of Hustings within said city, and all other parts of said Charter repugnant to, or inconsistent with, the provisions of this Article in relation to the City of Annapolis, are repealed.
SEC. 74. The public lands and buildings heretofore purchased and built by this State or Anne Arundel County, in said city, are reserved and continued forever to the uses to which they have been allotted, and the Judges of the several Courts which have usually held their courts in the said city in the public Court House thereof, shall and may continue to do so; and the Justices, Commissioners, and Sheriff of Anne Arundel County, shall have, hold, and exercise the jurisdiction in as full and ample manner in the said city as heretofore.
SEC. 246. It shall not be lawful for any person to carry con- cealed, in Annapolis, whether a resident thereof or not, any pistol, dirk-knife, bowie-knife, sling-shot, billy, razor; brass, iron or other metal knuckles, or any other deadly weapon, under a penalty of a fine of not less than three, nor more than ten dollars in each case, in the discretion of the Justice of the Peace before whom the same may be tried, to be collected as other fines and penalties are now collected provided, the provisions of this section shall not apply to any officer
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of the law, either of the State or City, where any pistol or other weapon is a part of the prescribed outfit of said officer ; and provided further, that either party, feeling aggrieved at the decision of the said Justice of the Peace, shall have the right to appeal to the Circuit Court of Anne Arundel County.
CHAPTER 498.
AN ACT to enlarge the powers of the Mayor, Counsellor, and Alder- men of the city of Annapolis, by adding certain sections to the charter of said city relating to public cemeteries, and the acqui- sition of land by said corporation for that purpose, and the regu- lation thereof, and the construction and maintenance of roads and bridges leading thereto.
SECTION 1. Be it enacted by the General Assembly of Maryland, That the following sections be and the same hereby are added to the Code of Public Local Laws of Maryland, title "Anne Arundel county," sub-title "Annapolis," to be known as sections seventy- five, seventy-six, seventy-seven, and seventy-eight, of said title and sub-title:
SEC. 75. The mayor, counsellor, and aldermen of the city of An- napolis, shall be authorized and empowered, in their discretion, to ac- quire by purchase, condemnation, gift, or grant, for the purposes of & public cemetery or cemeteries for said city, so much land either within or without the limits of said city as they may consider necessary ; and also to make such ordinances, by-laws, rules, or regulations relative to the same, and to the public cemeteries belonging to said city, or within its limits, as may by them be deemed right and proper.
SEC. 76. If the said mayor, counsellor, and aldermen of the city of Annapolis cannot agree with the owner or owners of the land so sought to be acquired for the purpose aforesaid, for the purchase of the same, the said mayor, counsellor, and aldermen shall be authorized to pro- ceed to condemn said land for the purposes aforesaid, in manner as provided by sections one hundred and seventy, one hundred and sev- enty-one, one hundred and seventy-two, one hundred and seventy- three, one hundred and seventy-four, and one hundred and seventy- five of chapter four hundred and seventy-one, of the acts passed by the general assembly of Maryland at the January session, eighteen hundred and sixty-eight, and all the rights, powers, and privileges conferred by said sections upon the corporation therein mentioned, shall be deemed applicable to and vested in said mayor, counsellor, and aldermen for the purposes of this act.
SEC. 77. The said mayor, counsellor, and aldermen shall be author ized to open roads, ways, or streets to said cemetery or cemeteries, and condemn property for that purpose under the powers conferred by the preceding sections of this act, or to acquire title to the land necessary for that purpose by purchase, gift or grant, as provided by said seo-
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tions ; and they shall furthermore be authorized to erect or construct bridges over the navigable waters of College creek or of Spa creek, on either side of said city, for convenience of access to such cemetery or cemeteries.
SEC. 78. The said mayor, counsellor, and aldermen shall be author- ized to lay off into burial lots the land required by them under this act, and to lease, sell, and convey said lots as they may deem right and proper. They shall be authorized to make all such rules and regulations, relative to the maintenance and use of such roads and bridges as may be constructed by them under the provisions of this act as they may deem expedient, in the same manner as by existing laws they can make and enforce relative to public streets within said city.
SEC. 2. And be it enacted, That this act shall take effect from the date of its passage.
Approved April 8, 1884.
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A
Abuse of the house by Ed- ward Erberry 41
A brief struggle. 57 Abigail and Nancy. .. 125
Abraham Lincoln, election of.284 Abbott, Wm. M. .. .324 Abridgement of Fr. White's J.327 Acknowledgement can be tak. 338 Acadians in Annapolis .. .. . .
119 Act of attainder of R. Clarke. 85 Accomplishments of Annapo. 91 Act of Assembly on charter .. 93 Acton, Richard. 19
Act of Assembly to punish In- dians for murder .... 22 Academy of King William .... 80 Acts against Quakers repealed 44 Act to build State House and
prison at St. Mary's ...... 59
Accessibleness of St. Mary's .. 60 Acton's Cove. 63 Advance of Gov. Stone's forc. 33 Address of Mayor, &c., of St. Mary's .. 58
Advantages of St. Mary's 60 Addison, Col. John. 78
Admittance to the House 92
Addison, Col. Thomas. 96
Addition to Annapolis called New Town. 97 Addition to the city of Annap. 97 Advertisement in the Gazette. 99 Adultery 101 Admiralty, court of, at Annap114
Adams Express Office. 147 Adverse Meeting 166
Adventures cargo refused land- ing. .176 Adams, Lieut. Col. Peter .... 188 Address of Annapolis to
Washington. ......... 193 Address of A. to Gen. Greene.195 Addresses to La Fayette. ... 196-7 Address of Council of State
to Washington. . .. .202
... Address of A. to Washington.203 Address of State to Wash .... 203 Address of Washington ...... 206 Address of Gen. Mifflin to W.207 Advantages of St. John's Col. 211 Adams, Thomas. . .329 Address to La Fayette. 239 Additions to Naval Academy266-7 Advantage of Naval Academy to Annapolis. 268
A Disastrous Accident. 321
Advertiser, Anne Arundel. . 324-5 Adams, Richard. 168 A. & E. R. Railroad. 262
A Notable Bowl. .309
A. & E. R. R. pays to State ... 313 A. & B. Short Line R .... 320, 323 Affirmative commands urged. 27 Affirmed, charter of Annap .... 93 African slavery 108
Affray at Annapolis .151
Affability of Gov. Eden. 154 Agents fail to receive orders ... 57 Aged rector to drop into grave 72 Agricultural fair grounds ...... 159 Age of poplar on College Campus 309
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A Galaxy of Annapolitans ... . 275 Anne Arundel changed to Co.
Allen Rev. B .. & notorious of Providence. . 31 pastor . . 72 Anne Arundel men. 34
All Saints Parish rector of being dead. 72
Allen, Rev. Mr. gives
with
lavish hand.
72
Allen, Mr. rec. of 2 parishes 72
Allen, Rev. Mr. personal chas-
tisement of.
72
Allen, Rev. Mr. mobbed .. 72
Allen, Rev. M. resigns All
Saints.
71
Allen, Rev. resigns St. Anne's 71 Allen, Rev. returns to Eng .. 72 Allen. Rev. Mr. challenges L. Dulany . 72
Allen, Rev. kills L. Dulany .. 72 Allen, Rev. dies in poverty 72
Allen, Rev. Mr. gifted but degraded. 72
All Saints, Calvert county .... Aldermen of Annapolis, 1708. 86 Allen, Mr. writes of St. Anne's108 Allison, Patrick .209
Alkman, William
168
Alexander, Charles.
210
Allyne, Capt ..
111
All America in a flame.
164
Alumni of St. John's
215
Almshouse burned .. .224 Alexander, Wm .... 225, 226, 229 Alarms of citizens of A. . 234, 238 Alms House. 257 Alexander, Thos. S. 263 Alms House of A. A. Co., 267 Altham, Father .331 Alkman, Wm 168
Alleys, powers over.
338
Amerciaments, fines, forfeit- ures. . 107
American women, beauty of. . 140 American Company .... ... 140 American ladies, ease of. .. 142 American Com. of Comedians. 147 American House. 301 American tobacco 127
Amateur Dramatic, A. N. A. . 320 Amendment to City Charter. . 342 Annapolis Town. 18 Annapolis, Port of. 19
Anne Arundel Co., formed ... 21 Anne Arundel named in honor
of Lady Anne Arundel ... 21
Anne Arundel required to sub. 36
Annarundel.
37
Anne Arundel County. 39 Annapolis. 34, 35, 40, 57, 58, 62, 63, 68, 72, 78, 82, 95, 97.
Annapolis, not as large as St. Mary's .. 57 Anne Arundel Town, (now Annapolis, ) 57 Annapolis, remv'l. of Capital. 55 Annapolis has forty dwelling houses . ..
57 Annapolis, State House in ... 57 Annapolis, Free School in .... 57 Annapolis, good lodgings in .. 57 Annapolis has two market days in a week .. 57
79 Anne Arundel Town .. 58 Annapolis, Records reach .. 63, 78 Anne Arundel County 63 Anne Arundel Town, & port of entry .. 63 Annapolis puts on its honors. 63 Annapolis give its pres. name .. 63 Annapolis, rules and orders. . 63. 64.
Annapolis, gates of .. 64 Annapolis, Town Clerk to keep his papers in. 66
Annapolis, busy times in ... 68 Annapolis, First Mayor of .... 76. Ancient communion vessels .. . 77 Annapolis, mem. residing in .. 79 Annapolis, 2nd State House in 80 Annapolis, printed charter of. 80 Annapolis, attempt to burn ... 81 Annapolis, plot that struck ... 82 Annapolis, attempt upon Town ot 82
Annapolis is made a City 85 Annapolis has two delegates .. 85 -Annapolis merged in A. A. C .. 86 Annapolis reduced to one del. 85 Annapolis loses its delegation. 85 Annapolis cont'd. as Capital .. 86 Annapolis. petition of Cor. of. 86 Annapolis wants a charter .... 86 Annapolis wants delegates .... 80 Annapolis, Common Council- man of, 1708. 87
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Annapolis, Aldermen of ...... 86
Annapolis, Charter of, grauted 87
Annapolis, Charter of City of 87
Annapolis, "a very pleasant
healthful comd. place." .. 87 Annapolis, town and port of .. 87 Annapolis, Sheriff for ..... .. Anne Arundel, Sheriff for .... 89 89 Anne, by the Grace of God, &c. 87 Annapolis, Free-holders of .... 89 Annapolis, two fairs yearly in. 90 Annapolis on the advance .... 91
Annapolis, accomplishments of 91 Annapolis, French writer on .. 91 Annapolis, described in verse. 92
Annapolis, description of ..... 92
Annnpolis, delegates denied .. 92 Annapolis, complaints from .. 92
Annapolis, port of. 94
Annapolis, shipping of. 95
Annapolis, members of port of 96
Annapolis, prospect to ... 96 Annapolis, Corporation of. . . Annapolis, area of. 97
96
Anne Arundel, Schools of 97 Annapolis, Public School in .. 98 Anderson, Ether. 102 Annapolis in 1745. 102 Annapolis, delegates of .. ... 102 Annapolis, a severe storm in .. 103
Annapolis a century cld ...... 108
Annapolis, chief trade at ..... 109 Annapolis, aurora borealis in. 109 Annapolis, chronicles from 1746 to 1773. 109
Annapolis, importance of ..... 109 Annapolis, by-laws of 1746 ... 109
Annapolis, Whitfield visits ... 110 Annapolis, manufacture of
osnabrigs . . . .111
Annapolis to Kent Island .. .112 Annapolis, Admiralty Court at.114 Annapolis, prison at, guarded.114 Annapolis, gallows at .. .114 Annapolis, convicts arrive at. 116
Annapolis, robbery in. . ... 117 Annapolis, fortified .. . ... 117, 118 Annapolis, Earthquake in 1755,
1758, 1772. .... 118, 120, 121 Annapolis, Acadians in. ...... 119 Annapolis, small-pox in ...... 119 Annapolis, gang of miscreants
in .120
Annapolis, pillory in .... ... 131
Annapolis, old clock, old hall. 123 Annapolis, Capital 50 years. 127 Annapolis, Latin notes in ...... 127 Annapolis, Coffee House .. 130, 221 Annapolis, clubs in .. 131
Anniversaries of clubs. ...... 134 Annapolis loyal to England. . 136 Anniversary of King observed. 137 Annapolis, emigrants to ...... 137 Annapolis, electricity in 1749.138 Annapolis, Masons estab. in .. 138 Annapolis Theatre 139, 226
Annapolis belles. 140
Ancient City. 146
Annapolis outlives raillery 145
Annapolis, stamp act in. .... .149 Annapolis and B. & S. L .... . 157 Annapolis, Wash. & B. R. Dep.159 Annapolis entrenched, 1755 .. 160 Annex to State Library ...... 164 Annapolis, in Dec. of Indepd. 164 Annapolis, during Revolution. 165 Annapolis sympathizes with
Annapolis, addition to 97 Boston .. 165
Anderson, John. 167
Annis, Robert. 167
Anderson, J. H. 168
Anne Arundel. 172
Annapolis deserted, 1775 175
Annapolis, consternation in .. 177
Annapolis, Associators of .... 181 Annapolis blockaded. .. ... 187 Annapolis after Revolution ... 192 Annapolis, a city of importance 193 Annapolis wants to be the
Capitol of the U. S ... .... 198 Annapolis and Trenton ...... 200 Annapolis quaint & agreeable. 201 Annapolis, address of. to
Washington .. 203 Annapolis, Wash.'s reply to. . 203 Annapolis from 1777 to 1810.220 Annapolis first to make silver
coin .220
Annapolis, commerce of .. .... 223 Annapolis Jockey Club. .. 223 Ancient Regime disappears. .. 228 Annapolis during the war of 1812. .233
Annapolis a milit'y camp. 233, 238
Annapolis riflemen 40
Annapolis infantry.
.240
Annapolis artillery
240
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Annapolis, join to 356
Anne Arundel. 257
Anti-Caucus party
.258
Anderson, T.
258
Annapolis & Potomac Canal Company. .260
Ancient Landmark burnt .. .. 273 Annapolis, population of. 280, 323 Annapolis seized by the Fed. Government .. . ... 281
Anne Arundel, vote in, 1860.281 Annapolis, vote of, in 1860 ... 281 Annapolis & E. R. R. seized. . 296 Annapolis an important Mili- tary Station .. .296
Annapolis has strong secession sentiment .. .297
Annapolis to rival Baltimore.297 Annapolis Gazette established.300 Anne Arundel enrollment .... 300
Annapolis, enrollment of ..... 301 Andrews, James ........ 304, 316
Annapolis Pub. School Build-
ing .208
Anti-Huckster Ticket. .313
Annapolis witnesses 314
Annapolis excited over Early's invasion 314
Annapolis fortified. ,314
Annapolis Confederates. 314
Annapolis reduced to a post .315 Anne Arundel His. Society. .320
Annapolis revenues .. 320 Annapolis of the present. 323 Annapolis Glass Works .. 323
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