| 1817.
CHAP. 71.
Passed Jan. 29, 1818. |
LAWS OF MARYLAND.
CHAP. LXXI.
An Act to provide for the opening and extension of Pratt-Street,
in
the City of Baltimore. Lib. TH. No. 5, fol. 562.
See 1818, ch. 198. |
Street to be surveyed
and laid out. |
1. BE IT ENACTED, by the General Assembly
of Maryland, That
the commissioners whose appointment is herein after provided for,
be and they are hereby authorised and empowered, to lay out and
survey Pratt-street, in the city of Baltimore, beginning for the
north side thereof, at the south-west corner of Owings's warehouse,
situated on Light-street, and running thence easterly in a straight
line to the south-east corner of Wilson's warehouse, situated on
Franklin-lane; and for the south side thereof, beginning at a point
on Light-street wharf, not less than seventy feet south from the beginning
of the north side of said Pratt-street, and running thence
easterly, parallel with the north side of the said street, to Franklin-lane;
but the said commissioners may widen the said street on its
south side in their discretion, provided the south side shall not be
further south than the southernmost extremity of Prestman's warehouse
on Cheapside wharf. |
| Plot to be made. |
2. AND BE IT ENACTED, That the said commissioners
shall
cause a survey, and two plots, to be made, of the situation of the
ground across which the said street is required to be laid out, and
such lots and docks as are adjacent thereto, and shall mark out and
designate the said street upon the said plots, and upon the ground,
and shall return, under their hands and seals, one of the plots to
be lodged in the office of the register of the city of Baltimore,
there to remain as a part of the said city, and the other plot to the
office of the clerk of Baltimore county court, to be by him preserved
among the records of said court. |
| Damages to be ascertained. |
3. AND BE IT ENACTED, That the said commissioners,
after
having surveyed the grounds and designated the street as aforesaid,
shall proceed forthwith to ascertain and determine what damages
will be sustained by the owners of property lying within or adjacent
to the said street, by reason of the opening and extension
thereof, (taking into consideration all advantages and disadvantages,)
provided that no claim of compensation for damage shall be
adjudged in favour of any property which shall not be taken in
whole, or in part, for the use of the said street, or to which is
not attached a right to the use of one or more of the docks to be
filled up, according to the provisions of this act. |
Property benefitted
to be assessed.
* Ch. 164. |
4. AND BE IT ENACTED, That the said commissioners,
after
having ascertained the damages as aforesaid, and added thereto the
commission allowed to the collector as herein after provided, and
an estimate of the expense of executing their agency herein, including
a reasonable compensation to their surveyor and clerk,
whom they are hereby authorised to employ, and of the expenses
incurred in pursuance of an act, entitled, An act for the opening
and extending Pratt-street, in the city of Baltimore, passed at November
session eighteen hundred and eleven*, which shall be paid
to the parties respectively entitled to receive the same, of which
said sum one-third shall be paid by the mayor and city council of
Baltimore, and they shall then proceed to assess the residue of the
said sum upon the property benefitted by the opening and extension
of the said street, having regard to all circumstances; and having
completed the said estimate and assessment, the said commissioners |
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