The Ordinances of the Mayor and City Council of Baltimore, Passed at the January Session, 1858

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Excerpt from The Ordinances of the Mayor and City Council of Baltimore, Passed at the January Session, 1858: To Which Is Added Mayor's Communication, Reports of City Officers, and a List of the Members of the City Council, and Officers of the CorporationAnd whereas, said George Peabody, deeming it advisable preamble to perpetuate by a more formal instrument than said letter tinned. First above recited, his views and purposes in relation to said institute, by deed dated the 4th day of March, 1857, and r'ecorded among the charter records of the city of Baltimore, in liber E, D., No. 3, folio 186, &c., , did expressly ratify and confirm in all things said letter, and all and singular the statements therein contained, and did make said letter a part of said deed, and did declare and provide, that the persons named in said letter, with the exception of William Prescott Smith, Esq., who declined to accept the trust by said letter created, their associates and successors should hold the moneys in said letter designated to have been given, as the same might by them be received, and any further sums whichhe, the said Peabody, might appropriate in trust for the erection, endowment and perpetual maintenance in the city of Baltimore, of an institute of the character in said letter designated, and to be held, owned and managed by them, 'in the manner and pursuant to the directions therein set forth, and whereas, in addition to, but not in derogation of said directions, the said Peabody by said deed further de clared, if from any cause whatever, of which said trustees, their associates and successors should be the exclusive judges, there should be a failure on the part of the Maryland histo rical society to undertake or prosecute the functions which he the said Peabody had indicated in his said letter, as thereporated.About the PublisherForgotten Books publishes hundreds of thousands of rare and classic books. Find more at www.forgottenbooks.comThis book is a reproduction of an important historical work. Forgotten Books uses state-of-the-art technology to digitally reconstruct the work, preserving the original format whilst repairing imperfections present in the aged copy. In rare cases, an imperfection in the original, such as a blemish or missing page, may be replicated in our edition. We do, however, repair the vast majority of imperfections successfully, any imperfections that remain are intentionally left to preserve the state of such historical works.