1835.

LAWS OF MARYLAND

CHAP. 391.

grades of streets, lanes and alleys, within the limits of

said city before the opening of the same for public

use; — Therefore;

Mayor and City Council authoris-

SECTION 1. Be it enacted by the General Assembly of

cil to grade, &c.

Maryland, That the Mayor and City Council of Balti-

more be, and is hereby authorised to fix and establish

the permanent grade of all the streets, lanes and alleys,

According to plans

marked, located and laid out upon the plan of the said

city, made and returned by virtue of the acts of De-

cember Session, of the year eighteen hundred and

seventeen, chapter one hundred and forty-eight, and it

shall be the duty of the Mayor and City Council of

Baltimore to cause such grades to be fixed and establish-

On application

ed whenever application shall be made therefor by per-

sons owning more than one half of the ground fronting

on the streets, lanes, or alleys, respectively required

to be graded, although such streets, lanes or alleys

shall not have been opened, nor any application for that

purpose made.

May fix and estab-

SEC. 2. And be it enacted, That it shall be lawful

lish grades

for the Mayor and City Council of Baltimore to pro-

vide from time to time, by general ordinance, for the

fixing and establishing such grades, through the city

commissioners or other persons to be appointed or em-

ployed as such ordinance may direct, and on applica-

tion to such commissioners or persons, and notice of

such application as may by the said ordinance be

prescribed, and the expenses of such grading shall be

paid as such ordinance shall direct.

CHAPTER 391.

Passed June 4,1836

An act fo authorise the removal and discontinuance of a

certain Drawbridge, in the City of Baltimore.

Authority to re-

Be it enacted by the General Assembly of Maryland,

move

That it shall and may be lawful for the Mayor and

City Council of Baltimore, to cause to be removed,

and henceforth to discontinue the drawbridge hereto-

fore erected in the city of Baltimore, near Union

Dock, at Block street; provided however, that, this art