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BALTIMORE CITY.

street, lane or alley, in the city of Baltimore, the mayor and

city council of Baltimore, shall appoint three or more persons,

who, or a majority of whom, shall be empowered to act as

commissioners, for ascertaining and assessing the damages that

shall be sustained by such opening, extending, widening or

straightening, and ascertaining, and assessing the benefits to

be derived therefrom, and apportioning and charging the said

Proceedings

damages on the property benefitted ; and the said commissioners

directed.

shall proceed, in all jespects, as prescribed by the act, passed at

December session of the year eighteen hundred and twenty-six,

chapter ninety-one, and the act passed at December session of

the year eighteen hundred and twenty-seven, chapter twenty-

one, and the proceedings as respects the said opening, widen-

ing, extending or straightening, the ascertainment, assessment,

apportionment, and charge of damages and benefits aforesaid,

and return of the same, and appeal and trial by a jury thereon,

and in all other respects shall be as is prescribed by said last

mentioned acts in regard to the subjects of said acts.

Vacancies.

SEC. 2. And be it enacted, That the mayor and city council

of Baltimore, in any case aforesaid, may provide for the filling

the places of any commissioners who shall die, resign, or de-

cline, or fail to act.

Authority
to open,
&c.

SEC. 3. And be it enacted. That the mayor and city council
of Baltimore, may open, extend, widen, or straighten any street,

lane or alley, under the act to which this is a supplement, upon

application of the proprietors of the major part of any property

that may be intended to be taken for such opening, extending,

widening or straightening.

AN ACT to provide Indemnity to the Sufferers by certain Riots in the City

of Baltimore.— 1835, ch. 184.

SEC. 1, 2. Relate to compensation to be made to the sufferers by the

riots in Baltimore city.

Auction du-
tiea appro-
priated to
pay.

SEC. 3. And be it enacted, That the sum of twenty thou-
sand dollars yeaily, heretofore by the twenty-first section of the
act of assembly of eighteen hundred and twenty-seven, chapter

one hundred and eleven, appropriated for the purpose of deepen-

ing and improving the harbour of the city of Baltimore, be, and

the same is withdrawn, and hereby pledged and appropriated to

the redemption of the stock aforesaid, principal and interest, to

be by the said treasurer, distributively applied to that purpose as

the same shall accrue.

Or autho-
rities of
Baltimore
empowered
to levy for
the amount.

SEC. 4. And be it enacted, That the mayor and city council
of Baltimore, shall be and they are hereby authorized to provide
for the redemption or payment of the said stock, by assessment
and levy, upon the assessable property in the said city, or by a
loan upon the credit of the city, and upon the redemption