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LAWS OF MARYLAND.

CHAPTER 282.

AN ACT to repeal Section eight hundred and
sixty-one of Article four of the Public Local
Laws, entitled City of Baltimore, sub-title
Streets, and to re-enact the same so as to read
as follows:

Repealed and
re-enacted.

SECTION 1. Be it enacted by the General Assembly
of Maryland, That Section eight hundred and
sixty-one of Article four of the Public Local Laws,
entitled City of Baltimore, "sub-titled Streets,"
he and the same is hereby repealed and re-enacted
so as to read as follows:

Majority to
assent in writ-
ing.

861. They shall not cause any unpaved street,
lane or alley within said city to be paved or re-
paved without the assent in writing of the pro-
prietors of a majority of the ground binding and
fronting thereon, or the part thereof to be paved
or repaved, except where streets, lanes or alleys
have been opened, widened, straightened or altered
within the limits of direct taxation, in which cases
they may pass such ordinances as may be necessary
to have such streets, lanes or alleys paved or re-
paved without first obtaining the assent of such
owners thereto; and in all cases of paving or re-

Assess.

paving streets, lanes or alleys, they shall have full
power to assess upon the owners of property on
the street, lane or alley, or part thereof to be
paved or repaved, their proportional part of the
expenses, and to collect the same in like manner
as other city taxes are collected.

In force.

Sec, 2. And be it enacted, That this Act shall
take effect from the date of its passage.

Approved April 4, 1870.