| CHARLES RIDGELY, OF HAMPTON, ESQ. GOVERNOR.
shall make a full and particular report thereof, under their hands
and seals, to Baltimore county court designating precisely the property
ascertained to be injured, and the property assessed as benefitted,
and the names of the proprietors of both species of property,
as fully as they can ascertain the same, and the relative or respective
rights of such proprietors. |
1817.
CHAP. 71. |
5. AND BE IT ENACTED, That the clerk of Baltimore
county
court shall publish notice of the report being returned as aforesaid,
within five days after the said return, in all the newspapers printed
in the said city; and if any person or body corporate shall conceive
himself, herself or themselves, aggrieved by the award in
such report, he, she or they, may petition the judges of Baltimore
county court to review the same, who thereupon shall proceed to
examine fully the subject, and for that purpose they are hereby authorised
and empowered to summon witnesses, to call for papers,
and to hear the representations of parties, and finally to decide
upon the subject matter, and to alter, modify and correct the said
report, in all or any of its parts, as to them shall seem just and
equitable, giving to all parties affected by any proposed modification,
reasonable notice; the said court shall allow costs against the
parties controverting the said report, to the clerk, in their discretion;
and after all applications for a review shall have been disposed
of, and the report of the commissioners shall have been finally
approved of and passed by the said court, they shall order the said
report, as finally acted on, to be recorded by their clerk, in their
discretion;
and after all applications for a review shall have been disposed
of, and the report of the commissioners shall have been finally
approved of and passed by the said court, they shall order the said
report, as finally acted on, to be recorded by their clerk, at the
cost of the city, authenticated copies of which shall be good evidence
in all the courts of this state and elsewhere; provided that
all petitions for a review shall be lodged in writing with the clerk
within thirty days after his first publication of the report being
returned; and the said court shall decide finally thereon, within
ninety days from the day on which the said report is returned. |
Persons conceiving
themselves aggrieved,
judges to
decide. |
6. AND BE IT ENACTED, That at the expiration
of ninety-five
days after the report of the commissioners as aforesaid shall have
been decided on by Baltimore county court, the city commissioners
and port wardens of the city of Baltimore, shall proceed to open
and extend Pratt-street in the manner prescribed in the first section
of this act, and conformably with the plot returned by the
commissioners aforesaid, with as little delay as practicable; and
they shall have full authority to remove all buildings and obstructions
in the way of the said street between Light-street and Franklin
Lane aforesaid, or lying south thereof, and may dispose of the
materials of the buildings so to be removed, for the benefit of the
city, unless the commissioners shall have otherwise disposed of
them in their report, with a view to lessen any claims for compensation;
and to fill up all docks running within, across, or above
the said street, and to dig out and deepen the ground south of the
said street, all which shall be done at the expense of the said city;
and the said street and spaces where the docks now are, shall be
taken and considered as public streets and highways, except as
herein after provided. |
Street to be opened
and extended. |
7. AND BE IT ENACTED, That the wharf forming
the south side
of the said street shall be deemed to be public, subject to the regulations
of the corporation of Baltimore relative to public wharves;
and that in the event of the docks, or either of them, or any part of |
Public wharf. |
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