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shall show the street, lane or alley, or part thereof, intended to
be closed, and also the abutting lots and improvements thereon.
It shall be the duty of the commissioners to endorse on said
map their names, with the date of it being filed in their office,
and to keep the said map where the public may have access to
it, whenever said map may be needed for the purpose of being
shown at any meeting of the City Council, or of any committee
thereof, they may, on the written order or request of the presi-
dent of either branch of the City Council, or of the chairman
of such committee, and, on obtaining his receipt therefor, allow
the said map to be taken from their office for that purpose, to be
returned on the following day. At any time before the final
passage of said ordinance, said map and said ordinance may
be amended, provided such amendment shall not substantially
depart from the published notice, so as to, substantially affect
parties who would not be warned by such notice.

829. Before any commissioners appointed by any ordinance
of said corporation, under the two preceding sections, shall pro-
ceed to the performance of their duty, they shall give notice in
at least two of the daily newspapers in the City of Baltimore
of the object of the ordinance under which they propose to act,
at least ten days before the time of their first meeting to execute
the same.

SEC. 2. And be it further enacted, That this act shall take
effect from the date of its passage, but nothing herein contained
shall be construed to affect any right or liability of any party
accrued, or any proceedings begun, or pending, prior to the
passage of this act, but all such rights shall remain and such
proceedings shall continue, in the same manner, and to be of
the same effect, as if the provisions hereinabove mentioned had
remained as they were prior to the passage of this act.

Approved March 14, 1912.

CHAPTER 33.

AN ACT to add an additional section to Article 1 of the Code of
Public Local Laws, title "Allegany County," sub-title
"County Treasurer," the same to be known as section 4lA of
said article, and to follow section 41 of said article, and to
provide for quarterly reports by said County Treasurer to
the County Commissioners of said county. <

SECTION 1. Be it enacted by the General Assembly of Mary-
land, That an additional section, to be known as section 4lA,