Mayor of Baltimore v. Howard
Court of Appeals of Maryland
Appeal from Baltimore county court Assumpsit to recover a sum of money due for paving taxes imposed by the plaintiffs, (the appellants,) on the defendant, (the appellee.) .Plea non assumpsit.
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Appeal from Baltimore county court Assumpsit to recover a sum of money due for paving taxes imposed by the plaintiffs, (the appellants,) on the defendant, (the appellee.) .Plea non assumpsit. At the trial, the plaintiffs gave in evidence an act of the general assembly, passed at No vember session 1796, ch. 68, entitled, “An act to erect Baltimore town, iri Baltimore county, into a city, and to incorporate the inhabitants thereof. ” They also gave in evidence, another Act of the general assembly, passed at November session 1797, ch. 54, entitled, “A supplement to the act, entitled, An act to…
1Opinion of the Court
Buchanan, Ch. J.
at this term, delivered the opinion of the court. This case difters essentially from the case of The Mayor, &c. of Baltimore, vs. Moore and Johnson, (ante 375.) In. that case the streets were . directed to be paved, and the taxes imposed by special ordinances passed for that purpose. And in this case the paving, For which the aiaouht of the tax sued for was imposed, was determined on by the city commissioners, under the audiority of the ordinance of the 9th of March 1807, “to appoint city Commissioners, and prescribing their duties;” and it is objected, on the part of the…
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