GEORGE HOWARD, ESQ. GOVERNOR.

1831.

session, of the year eighteen hundred and seventeen, chap-
ter one hundred and forty-eight; and the said street, when

CHAP. 257.

opened and extended, in the manner herein mentioned, shall

be deemed and taken, and is hereby declared to be a public

Street made pub-
lic.

street and highway, forever thereafter, and the said com-

missioners, or a majority of them, are hereby required to

return a plot of said street, when opened and extended, to

Plot.

the office of the register of said city, there to be filed; and

if a vacancy should occur by the refusal to act, resignation,

death, or other inability of any commissioner, the vacancy

Vacancies in com-

shall be supplied by a new appointment or appointments, to

missioners

be made by as many of said commissioners as may consent

to act.

Sec. 2. And be it enacted, That the aforesaid commis-

Assess damages

sioners, or a majority of them, shall, after having given at

and benefits.

least ten days notice, In the daily newspapers published in

said city, proceed to assess and value, on oath or affirma-

tion, as the case may be, what damages may be sustained

by any person or persons whomsoever, by opening and ex-

tending said street; and shall also declare what sum of money

each individual or company, benefited thereby, shall res-

pectively contribute and pay towards compensating those

who are injured by the opening and extending said street,

and defraying the expenses incurred in the execution of

this act; and the name or names of the person or persons or

company , and the, sum of money which they respectively

shall be obliged to pay, or which they may be entitled to

receive, shall be returned under the hands and seals of the

Returns thereof.

said commissioners, or a majority of them, to the register

of said city, to be filed and kept in his office.

Sec. 3 And be it enacted, That the register of said city

Notice required.

shall give notice of the said returns, in the daily newspapers

published in said city, immediately after the same are made

and by him received; and all persons or corporations, con-

sidering themselves agrieved, may, within thirty days after

the first publication of such notice, appeal therefrom, by

Appeal provided.

petition in writing, to the judges of Baltimore city court,

praying the said judges to review the same; and it shall be the

duty of said register to state in his said notice, that every

party interested therein is entitled to an appeal; and on such

an appeal being made, the said judges, or a majority of them,

or the chief judge, if the said court is not in session, may

appoint a day for hearing said appeal, not less than five nor

more than thirty days after the expiration of thirty days,

limited for making appeals as aforesaid; and shall direct the

clerk of said court to issue a subpoena duces tecum, to the

Proceedings there-

said register, requiring him to produce before said court

in.