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BALTIMORE CITY.

powered to provide for licensing and regulating the sweeping of chimneys,
(with the consent of the Maryland Insurance Fire Company.)

Their duty.

SEC. 6. And be it enacted. That the special commissioners
or a majority of them, do, from time to time, or as often as there
may be occasion, meet and consult together, respecting what
streets, or parts of streets, what lanes or alleys, are to be paved;
respecting the best method and manner of paving and keeping
clean such of the streets, and public lanes and alleys, of the
said town, as are within the inhabited and settled parts thereof;
and of amending, building or repairing the bridges; and of
amending or repairing the common sewers of said town, made,
or that may be made, for discharging and carrying off the water
into the river or basin ; and of making, amending and repairing
the public streets, roads and highways, within the said town,
leading from any of the public roads in the country to the paved
and regulated parts of the said streets ; and to contract with any
person or persons for all materials for the purposes aforesaid,
and with such and as many workmen as they shall judge ne-
cessary to be employed from time to time in and about the
premises; and to agree on, execute and perform, every other
act, matter and thing, which to them shall appear necessary for
the fulfilment of said act.

Their
power.

SEC. 7. And be it enacted. That the special commissioners shall
have full power and authority to enter upon the lots, grounds and
possessions, of any person or persons, bodies politic or corpo-
rate, through which the common sewers run, or ought to run,
to regulate, make or repair the same ; Provided, that no common
sewer or water course to be laid out, shall be regulated so as to
run through any lot of ground belonging to any private person
or persons, unless the same shall be agreed to, and approved of,
by a majority of the said special commissioners ; and in every
such case, that the damages sustained, or to be sustained, by
reason thereof, by such private owner or owners, shall be valued
and appraised by two indifferent persons, one of them to be
chosen by the said special commissioners, and the other by
such owner or owners ; and also that the said damages shall be
paid to such owner out of the moneys arising by virtue of this
act.

Penalty on
persons ob-
structing,
&c.

SEC. 8. And be it enacted, That if any person or persons
shall wilfully stop up or obstruct the passage of the waters of
any of the common sewers, made or to be made, he or they,
so offending, shall forfeit and pay, for every such offence, any
sum not exceeding the sum of twenty-five pounds.

Scavengers
lo be em-
ployed, &c.

SEC. 9. And be it enacted, That the said special commis-
sioners, from time to time, shall employ proper and capable per-
sons to clean the cart- way of the said streets, lanes and alleys,
which are or may be paved, and to remove and carry off from
thence all mud, dirt, and other filth, there found, that shall OF