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Federal Gazette & Baltimore Daily Advertiser 1807/01-1807/06 msa_sc3722_2_6_1-0401 Enlarge and print image (4M)      |
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(BY AUTHORITY.)
AN ORDINANCE
Waking appropriations for the year one thou-
sanu eight hundred and seven.
I. BE it enacted and ordained by-the mayor
and city council of Baltimore, That there be
appropriated to the deepening and preserving
the harbor of Baltimore, to be paid out of
any money arising from the duty on ton-
nage of yessels and auctioneers, the sum of
six thousand dollars :
For cleansing the streets, a sam not ex-
ceeding three thousand five hundred dollars :
For removing nuisances, a sum not ex-
ceeding one thousand five hundred dollars :
For the health-officer, his salary, one
thousand dollars :
For the health department, a sum not ex-
ceeding fifteen hundred dollars :
For the commissioners of health, each four
hundred dollars, and one hundred dollars for
their secretary :
For printing and incidental expences, a
sum not exceeding one thousand dollars :
For repairing the paved streets, lanes and
alleys, a sum not exceeding one thousand
dollars :
For paving cross-streets, lanes and alleys,
a sum not exceeding three thousand dollars :
For ¦watching and lighting the city, a sum
not exceeding thirteen thousand dollars :
For altering and widening footways, a sum
¦ot exceeding two thousand dollars :
To the clerk of the centre market, in ad-
dition to his salary, the sum of one hundred
dollars ; to the clerk of Fell's Point market,
seventy-five dollars ; and to the clerk of the
Hanover market, for:y dollars :
Forj^oiling, winding and regulating the
-clock in the steeple of the German Reform-
ed Church, the sum of seventy-tive dollars :
For securing and repairing Billingsgate-
street, to be expended under the direction of
the pity commissioners, a sum not exceed-
ing three hundred dollars :
For extending the fish market one hun-
dred and eleven feet from the west end
thereof to the distance of sixty feet from the
west side of Jones's Falls, a sum not exceed-
ing two thousand two hunched dollars, to be
expended under the direction of Joseph
Towasend, Michael Diffenclerffer and iSalt-
.zer Scliaffer, with the approbation of the
mayor :
For filling in New Church street, between
Calvert and North-streets, a sure not exceed-
ing two hundred and fifty dollars, to be ex-
pended uncier the direction of the city com-
missioners :
"For repairing Hanover market, a sum not
exceeding two hundred and thirty dollars,
to be expended under the direction of Jacob
Small and vVilIiam Waterhouse :
To pay Joshua Reynolds a balance due
him for paving cross-streets, the sum of
three hundred and nine dollars and fifty-
eight cents :
To the Union, Friendship, Mechai
Deptford, Liberty,, Federal, Vigilant, Colum-
bia and Franklin lire companies, to aid in
keeping their fire engines in good order and
to defray other expences, .(an account of
which shall be returned-to tile register on
or before the first day of February next,) a
sum not exceeding three hundred dollars
each, to be drawn for by the presidents of
said companies from time to time, orso much
thereof sis may be necessary for the purposes
aforesaid :
To discharge a balance due Joshua Enniss,
the sum of fifty dollars :
For building footbridges on each side of
the stone-bridge in Wiikes-street, at the in-
tersection of Harford-street, a sum not ex-
ceeding two hundred and fifty dollars to be
expended under the direction of George
Ilussey and Frederick Schasffer:
T-o William Patterson, the sum of one
hundred and eight dollars and seventy-five
cents, due him for filling in Hanover and
Conway-streets, under the direction of the
city commissioners :
For filling in Conway and Lee-streets, a
sum not exceeding six hundred dollars, to
be expended under the direction of the city
commissioners :
For tilling in Fish-street, a sum not exceed-
ing one hundred dollars, to be expended un-
der tile direction of the city commissioners :
For each of the city commissioners and
their clerks, five hundred dollars their salary
the ensuing year :
For paving the south-east end of South-
"Street (provided that the proprietors thereon
-pave at the same time half the street) a sum
not exceeding two hundred dollars.
For keeping in repair Great York-street
from the stone-bridge east of Hartbrd-street
to the limits of the city eastward1, a sura
not exceeding three hundred dollars, to be
expended under the direction of tht city
commissioners.
To the harbor-master, his salary for the
ensuing: year, fifteen hundred dollars.
For building a mud-machine, scows and
other apparatus thaf may be necessary for
the preservation of the harbor, a sum not
exceeding four thousand dollars, to be ex-
pended under the direction of theory com-
missioners, with the approbation of the
mayor:
To erect a watch-house in market-street
between Fleet and Alisanna streets*, in the
seventh ward, to be expended under the di-
rection of the city commissioners, with the
approbation of the mayor, a sum not exceed-
ing three thousand dollars:
For placing stepping stones at the inter-
section of Liberty and Lombard-streets and
Howard and Pratt-streets, a sum not exceed-
ing sixty dollars :
For the repair of Hill-street, the sum of
fifteen dollars :
For placing stepping stones at the inter-
section of Caroline.and Wilkes-streets, twen-
ty-five dollars—which sums shall be expend-
ed under the direction of the city commis-
sioners :
For gravelling that part of the west side
.of Market-Space lying south of the paved
part thereof, one hundred dollars, to be ex-
pended under the direction ©f the city com-
missioners : „
For the superintendant of streets for the
western district, one hundred dollars ; and
for the superintendant of the eastern district,
sixty dollars, in addition to their salaries :
For repairing pumps., a sum not exceeding
fourteen hundred dollars :
For placing stepping or flag stones in Bal-
timore-street at the intersection of the several
oross streets from Harrison to Calvert street,
inclusive, a sum not exceeding two hundred
dollars, to be expended under the direction
of the city commissioners :
For filling up the ¦ gully in Smith-street,
between Hat/ord .and Market-sheet, two
hundred dollar? to tie expenrfed under tha di-
rection of the city commissioners :
A sum not exceeding live thousand dol-
lars to defray the expense of purchasing a
water lot, and wharting in the sain* for the
use of the city, to be expended by Henry
Payson, Jacob Small and Baltzer Schaeffer,
in conjunction with the mayor :
For John Hargrove one hundred dollars,
as a compensation for his transcribing bills,
passed at the present session of the city
council :
For the register of the city, five hundred
dollars, as a compensation for his services
in preparing a correct index and marginal
notes to the ordinances passed, and those
declared permanent at the present session of
the city council, and correct references to all
such acts of the legislature as relate to the
I police and regulations <»'f the city, before it
was incorporated, with notes, to be by him
prepared, expressive of the contents of the
said acts—and for collating, revising and
abridging said ordinances :
! i For the payment of the journal of ac-
counts, &c. fourteen hundred fifteen dollars
and fifty cents ; and that the mayor be au-
thorised from time to time to draw on the
register to the amount of the aforesaid seve-
ral appropriations for their respective purpo-
ses, who is hereby directed to lay before the
I city council a particular account of the ex-
I penditures of said money with the vouchers
j therefor.
And be it enacted and ordained., That there
be and hereby is apptopriated the amount of
, the several sums, which have been expend-
ed during the last year, in completing the
different objects for which inadequate ap
propriations were made, the said expendi-
tures appearing to have been proper and ne-
! cessary.
And be it enacted and ordained. That the
, several annual salaries herein mentioned be
payable quarterly.
BALTZER SCII/EFFER,
President of thc,first branch of the city
Council.
JAMES C >LHOUN,
President of the second branch of the
City Council.
Approved, April 10, 1807.
(L. S. Or) THOROWGOOD SMITH,
Mayor of the City of Baltimore.
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Baltimore Theatre.
(Not acted here these ten years J
On WEDNESDAY EVENING, April 29th,
Will be presented, a ceieliratt-d Comic Opera in
three acts, catted
Love m a Village.
Young Meadows, (with the additional Songs
of " I'll (ell her I Love her," k •' the Willow,")
Mr. Webster, from the Theatre Royal Dub-
lin, his.first appearance on this stage.
In act I A Statue Fair and Dance.
Pawhich ".nill he added, a much admired-Farce,
in two acts, called
Fortune's Frolick ;
OR, THE TRUE USE OF RICHES.
Rattle, Mr. Rutherford,
His fii''it appearance on this stage these
twelve mwnths
Box, one Dollar—Pitt, Three Fourths-of a
Dollar.
(0~J The doors Will be opened at six, and the
performance commence at seven o'clock, .pre-
cisely.
»% Tiskets to be had, and places in the
boxes to be taken of.Mr. Evans, at the office
in front of the theatre, on days of-non-perform-
ance from ten till two 1 and 011 days of perform-
ance, from ten till lour j'clock.
' OC?" Gentlemen cannot be permitted tosmoak
cigars in the Theatre, on any account_______
Sale by Auction.
TO-MORROW,
WEDNSSDAT, the 29M, at 4 o'clock in the
afternoon, on O' Donnel's wharf, near the head
of Frederick-street dock, villi be sold on a credit
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