| 1817.
CHAP. 12. |
LAWS OF MARYLAND.
also a reasonable compensation to their surveyor and clerk, whom
they are hereby authorised to employ, apportion the whole damage
amongst the persons benefitted by such opening and extension, and
shall also declare what sum of money each individual benefitted thereby
shall respectively contribute and pay towards compensating the
person or persons injured by opening and extending said street; and
the names of the persons, and the sums of money which they shall
respectively be obliged to pay, and the time within which it is to be
paid, not in any event to exceed sixty days, shall be returned, under
the hands and seals of the said commissioners, or a majority of
them, to the register aforesaid, to be filed and kept in his office, and
the persons benefitted by the opening and extending of said street,
and assessed as aforesaid, shall respectively pay the sums of money
so charges and assessed to the collector of the city of Baltimore on
demand. |
Collector to demand
payment of
monies assessed. |
3. AND BE IT ENACTED, That it shall be the
duty of the collector
of the city of Baltimore, and he is hereby authorised, at an
upon the expiration of the time limited by the return of the commissioners
aforesaid for the payment of the said sums of money assessed
and charged as aforesaid, to demand payment of the same,
by giving ten days notice in one or more newspapers printed in the
city of Baltimore, to the persons interested, to pay the same; and
in default of such payment, he is hereby authorised, upon ten days
notice as aforesaid, to sell the property of such person benefitted
thereby, as shall neglect to pay, and after deducting the amount of
the sum due by such person, with interest, and the expenses of advertising
and of the sale, and a commission of six per cent. for his
own trouble, he shall pay the balance over to the person or persons
owning such property; and he shall execute a deed for the property
sold, to the purchaser or purchasers, which shall be good and
available in law to pass the fee simple estate in the same; and the
said collector shall in all cases in which he may receive monies from
the persons benefitted as aforesaid, or by sale as aforesaid, pay over
the same, on demand, to the persons entitled to receive it, after
first deducting a commission of three per centum which he is hereby
authorised to charge. |
Sums assessed to
be a lien on property. |
4. AND BE IT ENACTED, That the sums of money
so assessed and
charged as herein before directed, to each individual benefitted by
opening and extending said street, shall be a lien upon and bind
all the property so benefitted to the full amount thereof. |
Streets not to be
opened until damages
are paid. |
5. AND BE IT ENACTED, That the street aforesaid
shall not be
extended or opened through the property of any individual injured
thereby, until the damages by him, her or them, sustained and assessed
as aforesaid, shall be first paid to the said collector, or until
the assent in writing of the person or persons so injured shall
be first had and obtained, in which case the said assent shall be
filed with the register aforesaid, who shall record it among the
other papers herein before mentioned, after which the said street
shall be deemed and taken as a public street and highway for ever,
to all intents and purposes. |
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