JAS. BLACK GROOME, ESQUIRE, GOVERNOR. 659

act passed January session of the General Assembly
of Maryland, in the year eighteen hundred and sev-
enty-two, chapter seventy-eight, entitled an act
entitled a supplement to an act entitled an act to lay	Repealed
off streets in Baltimore county, adjoining Baltimore
city, and repeal certain acts inconsistent therewith,
passed by the General Assembly of Maryland at the
January session, eighteen hundred and seventy,
chapter ninety-nine; and also sections one, four,
section two and section three, of an act passed at the
January session of the General Assembly of Mary-
land, eighteen hundred and seventy-two, chapter
three hundred and eighty-seven, entitled an act to
repeal section four, of an act passed by the General
Assembly of Maryland, at its January session,
eighteen hundred and seventy, chapter ninety-nine,
entitled an act to lay off streets in Baltimore county,
adjoining Baltimore city, and to repeal certain acts
inconsistent therewith, and to re-enact the same with
amendments; and each of said acts just above-men-
tioned, and each and every section of each and every
act just above-mentioned, be and the same are hereby
repealed.
SEC. 2. And be it enacted, That the County Com-
missioners of Baltimore county may, upon the appli-	May appoint on application.
cation, in writing, signed by the owner or owners of
a majority of front feet of ground fronting and
binding on such proposed street, avenue or alley,
appoint three discreet tax-payers of Baltimore county,
not related to any party interested in the opening
of the proposed street, avenue or alley, not owning
property fronting or binding on said proposed	Compensation
street, avenue or alley, the pay of whom shall
be two dollars and fifty cents for each and every
day actually and necessarily engaged ; but to whom
no mileage shall be allowed, who, or a majority
of whom, after having taken an oath before some
justice of the peace of the State of Maryland, in
and for Baltimore county, that he or they will
well and truly, and without prejudice or partiality,
assess the benefits and damages happening, arising
or ensuing from the opening, laying out, grading
and constructing of said proposed street, avenue or al-	Assess benefits
ley ; and in all respects act without prejudice or par-	and damages.
tiality in said matter, proceed to lay off and open
said street, avenue or alley, so petitioned for, and as-