330 CITT OF BALTIMORE. [ART. 4.

said North Avenue, both in said city and Baltimore county, for
which said owners ought to be compensated, or ought to pay a
compensation by reason thereof; and may provide for assessing
and levying on the property of persons benefited within the same
limits, the expenses thereof, in the same manner as if the same
were a street in said city, with the same right of appeal from
any assessment of benefit or damage as is provided for appeals
within the city of Baltimore or Baltimore county in similar
cases.

859. They shall, before they proceed to grade or pave that por-
tion of North Avenue lying between the Northern Central Bail-
road and Pennsylvania Avenue, divide the same into sections, as
near as may be, not less than. five, and shall advertise in the
usual manner for proposals for paving or grading, or both; and
the contracts shall be awarded to the lowest bidder, if he give
good security for the same, but the division into sections shall
not apply to the cost of executing the work, which shall be
levied generally from Pennsylvania Avenue to the Northern
Central Railroad.

860. Any assessment levied or charged upon the property
along the line of said avenue, which is designated on Poppleton's
Plat of said city as the bed of a street, shall be paid by the city
of Baltimore; Provided, the owner or owners thereof shall convey
not less than one square of the said street to said corporation.
within thirty days after said assessment shall have been made,
by a good and sufficient deed in fee for that purpose.

861. They shall not cause any unpaved street, lane or alley
within said city to be paved without the assent in writing of the
proprietors of a majority of the ground binding and fronting
thereon, or the part thereof to be paved.

862*. The mayor and city council of Baltimore shall have power
to clean the streets and remove the dirt and filth therefrom, and
to prohibit and punish by ordinance the placing of any dirt, filth
or other matter therein, and may protect any pavement by pro-
hibiting the travel thereon; and the said mayor and city council
may also erect lamps in any of the streets, lanes or alleys of said
city, and cause the same to be lighted at the expense of the city.

863. The mayor and city council may regulate the breadth of
the wheels of wagons, carts and drays, to be used for hauling