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der of said lot or of said lot and improvements, and an appeal
is taken from said assessment of benefits, the said appeal shall be.
filed in the case in which the said part of said lot or of said lot.
and improvements has been taken, and the exceptions from the
award of damages by the appraisers, if such exceptions are
filed, and the appeal from the assessment of benefits shall be
tried together.

SEC. 3. And be it further enacted, That, upon any appeal
being taken to the Baltimore City Court from any action of
the Commissioners for Opening Streets, in fixing the damages to
be awarded for any property proposed to be taken for a public
highway, or part thereof, the said Court, upon application of
the Mayor and City Council of Baltimore, may appoint three
disinterested appraisers to appraise the damages to be awarded
to the owner of said property; said appraisers shall return their
appraisement within ten days, and, upon payment of the amount
of such appraisement and giving security as hereinabove pro-
vided in Section 2, the Mayor and City Council of Baltimore
may, at any time after Thirty days thereafter, take possession
of said property and proceed with the improvement. And,
thereupon, the said appeal shall be proceeded with in accordance
with the provisions of Section 2 hereof and the provisions of the
City Charter applicable thereto.

SEC. 4. And be it further enacted, That none of the pro-
visions of this Act shall apply to or in any manner affect any
case or cases now pending in any of the Courts of the State of
Maryland. All such case or cases shall be heard and tried to
final judgment or inquisition under the law or laws in opera-
tion before the passage of this Act.

SEC. 5. And be it further enacted, That this Act shall take
effect from the date of its passage.

Approved March 24th, 1914.

CHAPTER 151.

AN ACT to authorize the County Commissioners of Harford
County to levy annually the sums of money for the support of
Vallie H. Pyle and James Alexander Jones, both of said
County.

SECTION 1. Be it enacted by the General Assembly of Mary-
land, That the County Commissioners of Harford County be