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MSA SC 5796-3-1
Collection	Potomac History (PotomacHistory website) Collection
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Dates	1745
Medium	Original
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Storage	Contact the Department of Special Collections for location.
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Chapter 9. Allowing riparian owners in Baltimore to build piers and other structures; states "[t]hat all Improvements of what Kind soever, either Wharfs, Houses, or other Buildings, that have, or shall be made out of the Water, or where it usually flows, shall as an Encouragement to such Improvers, be fore ever deemed the Right, Title and Inheritance of such Improver or Improvers, their Heirs and Assigns for ever." 50 Op. Atty. Gen. 452 states that the Baltimore Harbor cases are sui generis in that it was "clearly intended by its own terms to encourage the growth and commercial development of that harbor, and has been consistently so construed (e.g., B.&O. R.R. Co. v. Chase, 43 Md. 23, 36 [1875])." It was intended to develop the Baltimore Harbor into an international seaport capable of accommodating "vessels of the deepest draft." [as]

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