EDWIN WARFIELD, ESQ., GOVERNOR.

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the owner or owners of lots affected thereby shall not be

made in the case of additions to the basin or harbor of Bal-

timore, or to public wharves or docks; but no benefits shall

be assessed for such additions or extensions, and the Mayor

and City Council of Baltimore shall pay all the damages, pur-

chase prices and expenses assessed for, agreed upon or arising

from such additions or extensions.

SEC. 9. And be it enacted, That in every case when it shall

Claims of

be necessary, in order to effect the objects proposed in laying

owner or

out. opening, widening, extending or straightening, in whole

owners of
portions of

or in part, any street, lane, alley or market space or square,

lots.

or in establishing any building line or the width of any side-

walk, or in making any addition or extension to the basin

or harbor, or to the public wharves or docks, that a portion

only of a lot or of a lot and improvements shall be taken,

us€d or destroyed, and the owner or owners thereof shall claim

to be compensated for the whole, the said Commissioners may,

in such cases, if they deem it best, and not otherwise, accept

a surrender in writing of the whole of said lot, or the whole

of said lot and improvements, or the whole of said improve-

ments, if any, from said owner or owners, in which event the

said Commission shall ascertain the full value thereof, as if

the whole lot or lots and improvement, or improvements, as

the case may be, when necessary to be taken and used for

such proposed object: and the whole amount of such valua-

tion, when finally decided on, shall be paid or tendered the

said owner or owners before any part thereof shall be de-

stroyed, removed or used, unless such owner or owners shall

assent thereto in writing as now provided for by law ; and

the said Commission, after giving ten days' notice in two of

the daily newspapers of the city of the time and place, man-

ner and terms of sale, shall sell by public auction to the highest

bidder the materials of any building or buildings, or the debris

thereof, which it shall be necessary to remove in whole or

in part, and also the residue of any lot of which a part shall

be taken and used to effect the object confided to the Com-

mission, and which residue shall have been with the consent

of the Commission aforesaid surrendered by the owner afore-

said, said purchase money to be paid when full possession

shall be given of the property or materials or debris so sold,

Sale of lots
and material

and the said Commission, or a majority of the members thereof

on them.

on receiving the purchase money aforesaid, and not before,

shall, by a good and sufficient deed, convey the lot or lots of

ground by them so sold to the purchaser, but no such sale