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LAWS OF MARYLAND.

seventy, entitled an act to add additional sections to

the fourth article of Public Local Laws, relating to

the city of Baltimore, sub-title "Streets," be and the

same are hereby repealed and the following enacted

in lieu thereof:

1. The Mayor and City Council of Baltimore, are

hereby authorized and empowered to provide by gen-

Establish per.

eral ordinance for the establishment of the perma-

manent grade
lines.

nent grade lines of any street, lane or alley, or part

thereof, now or hereafter to be marked, located or

laid out, upon the plan of said city, on application of

the owner of any property binding thereon, and from

time to time for a change in any such grade lines,

which may have been previously so established, and

for the assessment and collection of the cost of said

work, either through the general tax levy or by spe-

cial assessment upon the party making the applica-

tion.

2. The said Mayor and City Council shall have,

Provide for

and are hereby vested with, full power and authority

grading, &c.

to provide by ordinance for the grading, shelling.

graveling, paving and curbing, or for the regrading,

reshelling, regraveling, repaving and recurbing of any
street, lane or alley in said city, or part thereof, now

condemned, ceded, or opened as a public highway,

or which may hereafter be condemned, ceded,

opened, widened, straightened, or altered according

to the laws and ordinances regulating the same; and

also for assessing the cost of any such work in whole

or in part pro rata upon the property binding on

such street, lane, or alley or part thereof, and for col-

lecting such assessments asother city taxes are col-

lected.

3. The said Mayor and City Council shall also

Power to grade

have, and are hereby vested with power and author-

ity, to provide by general ordinance for the grading,

graveling, shelling, paving or cubing, or for the re-

grading, regraveling, reshelling, repaving or recurb-

ing of any street, lane or alley, or part thereof, in

said city without the passage of a special ordinance

in the particular case, whenever the owners of a ma-

jority of the front feet of property binding on such

street, lane or alley, or part thereof, shall apply for

the same upon terms and under conditions to be pre-