| 1817.
CHAP. 148. |
LAWS OF MARYLAND.
to value property so required, who shall return, on oath, their
award of the value to Baltimore county court, which award shall
be confirmed by the said court, unless cause to the contrary be shewn,
in which case the said court shall, at the first term thereafter, decide
finally thereon; and such awards shall be recorded by the clerk of
the said court; and upon payment, or tendering in payment, of the
sum of money awarded, such property shall be vested in the mayor
and city council of Baltimore, in fee simple, for the purposes aforesaid. |
When Falls are
rendered navigable
tolls may be
collected.
Proviso. |
11. AND BE IT ENACTED, That should the mayor
and city council
succeed in whole or in part, in rendering Jones's Falls navigable
or boatable, by deepening its bed, or constructing a lock or locks
across it, or otherwise, they are authorised to impose and collect
tolls and wharfages upon vessels or boats navigating the same, or
lying at the public wharves opened or constructed on the banks
thereof; Provided, that the right to wharfage on Liffey-street shall
not accrue to the said mayor and city council, until they shall have
engaged to wharf and fill up said street, and deepen said Falls, on
the side thereof adjoining said street, if the said street be given up
to the city. |
Commissioners appointed
to survey
and lay off streets, |
12. AND BE IT ENACTED, That John E. Howard,
William Gibson,
William Cooke, William McMechen, Henry Thompson, John Hillen,
Joseph Townsend, Nathaniel Williams and John McHenry,
be and they are hereby appointed commissioners, who shall cause
to be surveyed and laid off, within the limits of the city of Baltimore,
all such streets, lanes and alleys, as they shall deem proper
and convenient, and cause the same to be marked with so many
and such durable land marks as they shall think necessary, and return
plots with such survey and location, and with proper explanations,
to the register of the city of Baltimore, and the clerk of Baltimore
county court, to be by them respectively filed and preserved as
other records of their offices, and the said commissioners may employ
such engineer or surveyor as they may see fit, and a secretary;
and the expenses incurred in the execution of the duties hereby enjoined,
shall be paid by the mayor and city council of Baltimore. |
May contract for
ground for public
purposes. |
13. AND BE IT ENACTED, That the said commissioners
be and
they are hereby authorised to contract for and lay out such and so
many parcels of ground within the said city as they shall judge
convenient and necessary, to be used for public purposes, and if the
price demanded therefor shall be deemed reasonable by the mayor
and city council of Baltimore, they are hereby authorised to purchase
the same at the expense of the city, and such lots or parcels
of ground shall be conveyed to the said mayor and city council for
the purposes aforesaid. |
May name streets,
&c. |
14. AND BE IT ENACTED, That the commissioners
aforesaid be
and they are hereby authorised, to assign one name to any street
which in the whole, or in parts, may have acquired different names,
and when two or more streets may be known by the same name, to
alter or change them, so that no two streets have one name, and
also to alter the names of such as in their judgment decorum shall
require; and the names so given of all the other streets shall be
written on the plots thereof to be returned to the said commissioners,
by which names they shall thereafter be called and known. |
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