JOHN WALTER SMITH, ESQ., GOVERNOR.

said Commissioners are ready and able to give possession to
the said purchaser or purchasers of the property and mate-
rials aforesaid; and the said Commissioners are duly empow-
ered to take and receive a good and sufficient bond from the
purchaser or purchasers aforesaid with a penalty to the
Mayor and City Council of Baltimore, conditioned that the
purchase money be duly paid at such time as the said Com-
missioners shall demand the same, and conditioned further
that said purchaser or purchasers shall remove within sixty
days after notice from the said Commissioners, from the bed
of the street all such materials so sold, and all rubbish or
other obstructions in said street occasioned thereby; and in the
event of the purchaser or purchasers not complying with the
terms of said sale, the Commissioners shall re-sell the said lot

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or lots and improvement or improvements, as the case may be,
at the risk of the former purchaser or purchasers, giving not
less than five days' notice of said re-sale, in two of the daily
newspapers of the city aforesaid; provided, however, that
where in the judgment of said Commissioners a part only of
the whole of a lot, or a part of the whole of the improve-
ments of any lot, can be taken without destroying the whole
of said lot or said improvements, for the purpose for which
lot or improvements are used, or for building purposes, the
said Commissioners shall only condemn such part of said
whole lot or improvements as is necessary for the proposed

May re-sell
property.

object, and shall award to the owner or owners of the part of
the lot or improvements so taken such damages and assess
upon the remainder thereof such benefits as in their judg-
ment shall be right and proper; and provided further, that
in all cases where there are sheds or other obstructions lying
and being in beds of streets, lanes, roads or alleys, in process
of opening or widening where the same will not, in the judg-
ment of the Commissioners for Opening Streets, sell by
public auction for the amount of the expenses of said sale,
then the said Commissioners for Opening Streets may, and
they are hereby authorised, to sell the same at private sale.

SEC. 2. And be it enacted, That this Act shall take effect
from the date of its passage.
Approved March 27, 1900.

CHAPTER 1 10.
AN ACT to repeal Sections seven and twelve, of the Acts of
the General Assembly of Maryland, of eighteen hundred
and ninety-six, Chapter three hundred and nine, entitled

Part of prop-
erty condemn-
ed.