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BALTIMORE CITY.

For grant-

provide for granting appeals to Baltimore city court, from the

ing appeals.

decisions of any commissioners, or other persons appointed in

virtue of any ordinance, to ascertain the damage which will be

caused, or the benefit which will accrue to the owners, or pos-

sessors, of ground or improvements by locating, opening, ex-

tending, widening, straightening, or closing up, in whole or in

Jury trials.

part, any street, square, lane, or alley, within said city, and for

securing to every such owner and possessor, the right, on appli-

cation within a reasonable time, to have decided, by a jury trial,

whether any damage has been caused, or any benefit has ac-

crued to them, and to what amount; to provide for collecting

For paying

and paying over the amount of compensation adjudged to each

over com-
pensation.

person entitled, or investing it in stock of the said corporation,

On in vest-

bearing an interest of five per cent, per annum, for the use of

ing it.

any of such persons, who, because of their infancy, absence

from the city, or any other cause, may be prevented from receiv-

ing it, before any street, square, lane, or alley, in whole or in

part, shall be so opened, extended, widened, straightened, or

Pass

closed up, and to enact and pass all ordinances from time to

ordinances.

time, which shall be deemed necessary and proper to exercise

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the powers, and effect the objects above specified ; Provided

notice
required.

nevertheless, that before the mayor and city council of Balti-

more proceed to execute any of the powers vested iu them by

this act, at least sixty days notice shall be given of any appli-

cation which may be made for the passage of any ordinance,

by advertisement in at least two of the daily newspapers in the

city of Baltimore.

Public

SEC. 2. And be it enacted. That before any commissioners,

notice of
intended
proceedings

appointed by any ordinance to be passed in virtue of this act,
shall proceed to the performance of their duty, they shall give

notice in at least two of the daily newspapers in the city of Bal-

timore, of the object of the ordinance under which they propose

to act, at least thirty days before the time of their first meeting,

to execute the same.

SEC. 3. And be it enacted, That upon the return of any

assessment to be made under any ordinance to be passed in

virtue of this act, the register of the city of Baltimore shall

cause a copy of said assessment to be published for thirty days,

in at least two of the daily newspapers of said city.

within 30
days.

SEC. 4. And be it enacted, That the time within which any
appeal is to be made from any assessment, shall be computed

from and after the expiration of the thirty days mentioned in

the preceding section.