1250 ARTICLE 4.

SEWERS.

P. L. L. (1860), Art. 4, sec. 836. P. L. L. (1888), Art. 4, sec. 798.

817. If any person shall wilfully stop up, obstruct, injure or damage
the passage of the waters of any of the common or private sewers or drains,
he shall be fined a sum not exceeding one hundred dollars, to be collected
as other fines are collected.

1868, ch. 181. P. L. L. (1888), Art. 4, sec. 794.

818. The Mayor and City Council of Baltimore shall have full power
to provide for constructing, opening, enlarging or straightening, subject
to the provisions hereinbefore contained as to the Board of Public Im-
provements and the Board of Estimates, any sewer or drain, public or
private, through any private property, upon giving thirty days' notice
in writing to the owner or agent of said private property, or to one of
them, if more than one, leaving such notice at the usual place of abode of
such owner or agent, or at the usual place of abode of one of them, if
more than one, or if none of said parties live in the City of Baltimore,
by setting up said notice on the land or premises.; to provide for ascer-
taining what amount of actual benefit will thereby accrue to the owner
or possessor of any ground or improvements within or adjoining the city,
being governed as far as practicable by the number of superficial feet
drained, and to provide for assessing and levying, either generally on the
whole assessable property of the said city, or by a loan for the special
purpose for constructing, opening, enlarging or straightening any sewer,
the sum necessary to pay the expense or cost, or specially on the property
of persons actually benefited, the whole or any part of the damages and
expenses which they shall ascertain will be incurred in constructing,
opening, enlarging or straightening any sewer in any street, lane or alley,
or through any private property in said city; to provide for granting
appeals to the Court having jurisdiction thereof in Baltimore City, from
the decision of any commissioners or other persons appointed in virtue of
any ordinance to ascertain the damage which will be incurred or the
benefits which will accrue to the owners or possessors of any ground or
improvements for constructing, opening, enlarging or straightening in
any street, lane or alley, or through any private property, any sewer
which in their opinion the public welfare or convenience may require,
and for securing to every such owner or possessor the right on application
within a reasonable time to have decided by a jury trial whether any
damage and what amount of damage has been caused, or whether any
benefit and what amount of benefit, has accrued to them; and to provide
for collecting and paying over the amount of compensation adjudged to
each person to receive the same, or investing in stock of said corporation,
bearing interest of five per centum per annum, for the use of any person
who because of infancy, absence from the city, or other cause, may be
prevented from receiving it, before any sewer shall be constructed, opened,
enlarged or straightened in any street, lane or alley, or through any pri-