Mayor of Baltimore v. Moore & Johnson
Court of Appeals of Maryland
Appeal from Baltimore county court. Assumpsit for money due for paving taxes, imposed upon the property of the defendants, (the appellees.) They pleaded non as-sumPs^‘ .At the trial the plaintiffs, (now appellants,) save in evidence an act of assembly of this state, passed at November session 1796, du 68', entitled, “An act to erect Baltimore-i'own, iii Baltimore county, info a city¿ and to incorporate tile inhabitants thereof,” and also another act of the general assembly…
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Appeal from Baltimore county court. Assumpsit for money due for paving taxes, imposed upon the property of the defendants, (the appellees.) They pleaded non as-sumPs^‘ .At the trial the plaintiffs, (now appellants,) save in evidence an act of assembly of this state, passed at November session 1796, du 68', entitled, “An act to erect Baltimore-i'own, iii Baltimore county, info a city¿ and to incorporate tile inhabitants thereof,” and also another act of the general assembly aforesaid, passed at November session 1797, ch. 54, entitled* “A supplement to the act, entitled, An act to Ci-ect…
1Opinion of the Court
Buchanan, Ch. J.
at this term, delivered the judgment, of the court. The decision of this case involves the construction of the second section of the act of 1797, ch. 54, a supplement to the act incorporating the .city of Baltimore. That'section of the act, after conferring upon the. corporation full power and' authority to enact and pass all ordinances ' necessary for paving arid keeping in repair the' streets, lanes and alleys, in the city of Baltimore, gives the further power “to tax any particular part or district of the city, for paving the streets, lanes or alleys therein, or for sinking…
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