EDWIN WARFIELD, ESQ., GOVERNOR.

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or owners of property or rights along or in any street, lane

or alley closed, and to all persons assessed with damages and

benefits arising from said closing, in case such damages and

benefits are assessed or to be assessed, and provided that pro-

vision be made for appeal to the Baltimore City Court, in-

cluding the right of appeal to the Court of Appeals by any

person or persons interested, including the Mayor and City

Council of Baltimore, from the decision of said Commission

valuing or fixing said benefits and damages. And said Com-

Agreements

mission may agree with any person or persons interested in

made with
interested

the closing of any street, lane or alley or any part thereof, or

parties.

who may be liable to be assessed with benefits or damages

for such closing, and may have such damages paid out of

moneys appropriated therefor and carried into the Burnt Dis-

trict Sinking Fund, as this Act provides. Any money paid

for benefits under this section shall be paid to the Comptroller

of the city, to be by him paid over to the City Register, to

be added to said Burnt District Fund.

SEC. 29. And be it enacted, That the Mayor and City Coun-

cil of Baltimore is hereby empowered for the purposes of pro-

Municipality
empowered

viding the money for defraying of the expenses of said Com-

to appropri-
ate money.

mission, and for the expenditures to be incurred in the acquisi-

tion by the city, by purchase, condemnation or any other

method, of the property, interests, rights, franchises, privi-

leges and easements required to execute the powers and to

carry out the work of said Commission, and generally for

the purposes contemplated by this Act, also for the pur-

poses of paving or repaving and curbing or re-curbing

any street, lane, alley, public square or market space, opened.

widened, extended or straightened under this Act, or any part

thereof, to appropriate any moneys from time to time out of

any balance not appropriated at the time for any other pur-

pose, pursuant to authority granted by the General Assembly

of Maryland, of the sum of four million four hundred and

twenty-two thousand four hundred and sixty dollars and sev-

enty-four cents, forming part of the purchase price paid by

the Fuller Syndicate for interests of the City of Baltimore in

the Western Maryland Railroad Company heretofore passed

to the credit of the General Sinking Fund of said city, and the

interest accumulated thereon, or out of the proceeds of any

loan authorized by the General Assembly and approved by the

majority of the legal voters of said city for the purpose of

this Act. And when any such appropriations are duly made as

aforesaid, the Commissioners of Finance of the City of Bal-

timore are hereby authorized to pay the several sums thereby