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LAWS OF MARYLAND.

in its book of proceedings and certified under the hands and

seals of the members of said Commission, or a majority of

them, and their clerk, and shall deposit the same, .together

with the explanatory map or maps, as finally corrected by it

and similarly certified to, in the office of the City Register,

and it shall be the duty of the City Register, within five days

after the said proceedings shall have been deposited in his

office, to notify all persons interested by an advertisement, to

be inserted twice a week for two successive weeks in two of

the daily newspapers of the city, that the said assessment and

maps have been so placed in his office, and that the parties

affected thereby are entitled to appeal therefrom by petition

in writing of the Baltimore City Court.

SEC. II. And be it enacted. That it shall be the duty of the

To serve no-

clerk of the Burnt District Commission to serve written or

tice upon
parties inter-

printed notice upon each and every party or parties assessed

terested.

for benefits or to whom damages have been awarded in the

condemnation proceedings of said Burnt District Commission;

provided, however, that the service of such notice shall not be

so construed as to be one of the prerequisites to the con-

demnation and opening, laying out, widening, extending or

straightening of any streets, lanes or alleys under this Act,

or establishing a building line or width of any sidewalk, or

for opening any square or market space or making any addi-

tion or extension to the basin or harbor or public wharves

and docks.

SEC 12. And be it enacted, That the Mayor and City Coun-

Rights of par-

cil of Baltimore, or any person or persons or corporations who

ties dissatis-
fied with

may be dissatisfied with the award of damages or benefits as-

award of
damages or

sessed as hereinbefore provided, may, within fifteen days after

benefits.

the return of the corrected statement and map or maps to

the Register, and the first publication of the notice thereof

by the Register, appeal therefrom, by petition in writing to

the Baltimore City Court, praying the said court to review

the same, and on any such appeal the court may, and shall.

appoint a day for hearing said appeal, which shall be not less

than five nor more than twenty days after the expiration of

the fifteen days limited for taking appeals as aforesaid, and

shall direct the clerk of said court to issue a subpoena duces

tecum to the City Register, requiring him to produce and de-

liver to said court the record af the proceedings of the said

Commission in the case, and all maps, plates, documents and

papers connected with such record, and the said City Court

shall have full power to hear and fully examine the subject