1256 ARTICLE 4.

or owners, and for appeals to the Baltimore City Court, including the-
right of appeal to the Court of Appeals, by any person interested, includ-
ing the Mayor and City Council of Baltimore, from the decision of any
Commissioners or other persons appointed to value any such land or prop-
erty, or interest, franchise, easement, right or privilege therein.

Taylor v. M. & C. C." 130 Md. 135.

Provision in a contract requiring contractor to exhibit receipts from a sub-con-
tractor does not give the sub-contractor a claim against the city.

Lombard Governor Company v. Baltimore, 121 Md. 304.
See notes to Section 824N.

1904, ch. 349, sec. 4.

824D. All individuals and corporations lawfully having buildings,
structures, works, conduits, mains, pipes, tracks or other physical obstruc-
tions in, over or under the public lanes, avenues, streets, alleys or high-
ways of the City of Baltimore, which shall block or impede the progress
of said sewerage system, when in process of construction and establish-
ment, shall, upon reasonable notice from said commission, promptly so
shift, adjust, accommodate or remove the same, at their own cost and
expense, as to fully meet the exigencies occasioning such notice; and if
any such individual or corporation shall refuse, neglect or fail after such
reasonable notice to discharge any duty cast upon him or it by this sec-
tion, he or it shall, in addition to but not in substitution for any other
remedy or remedies that said commission or the Mayor and City Council
of Baltimore may have in the premises, be subject to a fine of one hun-
dred dollars for each and every offense, and also to an additional fine of
fifty dollars a day for every day that said refusal, neglect or failure shall
continue; said fines to be collected as other fines in the City of Balti-
more are collected; and should the exigencies of said commission and its
work in any case involve a taking, in the constitutional sense, of the fran-
chise or right in the exercise of which such obstruction had its origin, the
Mayor and City Council of Baltimore, acting by and through the agency
of said commission, shall be empowered to secure the condemnation of
such franchise or right in the manner provided for in section 3 of this
Act. The preceding provisions of this section shall likewise be applicable
to any such obstruction in, over or under the public highways of any
county of this State into which said sewerage system shall extend. The
duty and cost of adjusting or removing private drains and sewers in Balti-
more City which shall block or impede the progress of said sewerage sys-
tem when in progress of construction and establishment, shall rest upon
and be borne by the Mayor and City Council of Baltimore exclusively.

See notes to Section 824N.

1904, ch. 349, sec. 5. 1906, ch. 132.

824E. All work done or supplies or materials purchased in carrying
out. the purposes of this Act when involving an expenditure of five hun-
drew dollars or more, shall be by contract awarded to the lowest respon-
sible bidder in accordance with the provisions of sections 14 and 15 of