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mine to construct; and it shall not be necessary, in order to
make such changes in the grades of said streets, to obtain the
assent of any of the proprietors of the ground fronting on said
streets or affected by such changes.

SEC. 5. And be it further enacted, That the Mayor and City

Council of Baltimore are hereby authorized to make" such pro-
visions an to it shall seem best, for the defraying of the cost

of the grading and paving of any streets or avenues which it
may lay out and condemn along the margin or sides of said

Jones' Falls.

SEC 6. And be it further enacted, That none of the pro-
visions of Article four, Public Local Laws, in reference to
constructing sewers and opening and paving streets in the

City of Baltimore, shall apply to the construction of the sew-
ers, and to the opening and paving of the streets and ave-
nues, for which provision is made in this Act, save in so far
as the said provision may be made applicable thereto by an
ordinance or ordinances of the Mayor and City Couucil of
Baltimore passed for that purpose; and provided fur/her, that
no appeal shall lie from the decisions of Baltimore City Court
in proceedings in said Court under this Act.

SEC. 7. And be it enacted, That all of the provisions of an

ordinance of the Mayor and City Council of Baltimore, en-
titled "An ordinance to provide for the improvement of
Junes' Falls, within the limits of the City of Baltimore,"

approved January 31st, 1870, shall have the same force, ef-
fect and operation, and be in all respects as valid as if the

said ordinance had been passed after the approval of this
Acf, or had been passed after the enactment of a law by the
General Assembly of Maryland, authorizing and empower-
ing the Mayor and City Council of Baltimore to pass such
ordinance.

SEC. 8 And be it furtJier enacted, That this Act shall take

effect from the date of its passage.

The amendments were severally read, and adopted,

And the bill as amended was read a second time, and or-
dered to be engrossed for a third reading.

The hour having arrived for taking up the order of the

day,

The House proceeded to the consi4eration of the bill enti-
tled an Act to authorize James S. Morsell, Jr., of Calvert

county, Mason L. Weems, and George F. Needham, to con-
struct a pier at No. 3, Tobacco Warehouse Wharf, in the

City of Baltimore.

Said bill being upon a second reading,

Mr. Martin submitted the following amendments :