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be paved, cleaned out, mended or otherwise repaved or kept in good con-
dition or repair, and may impose upon and collect from all the proprie-
tors of the property so to be cleaned out or repaired, a tax sufficient in
amount to defray the expenses thereof, which shall be assessed upon the
proprietors in proportion to the number of feet held by them, respectively,
in front or length, aud shall be collected by the Mayor and City Council
of Baltimore as taxes levied for paving public streets.

GEADES or STEEETS.
833A. Repealed by Act of 1916, ch. 178.

833B. Repealed by Act of 1916, ch. 178.

P. L. L. (1860), Art. 4, sec. S54. P. L. L. (1888), Art. 4, sec. 817.

834. Whenever the Commissioner of Health shall certify in writing
to the Mayor that it is necessary for the health of the city to alter the
grade of any street, lane or alley on low or made ground, the Mayor shall
issue his order to the City Engineer, who shall thereupon call upon the
several propertyholders on such street, lane or alley, and procure from
them their assent in writing to such alteration; and if any propertyholder
shall refuse to permit the same to be graded, and shall require damages
therefor, and cannot agree with the City Engineer as to the amount of

damages, or should there be any legal disability on the part of those own-
ing property on such street, lane or alley the Judge of the Baltimore City
Court, on application of the corporation, shall appoint three disinterested
persons to assess such damages, who shall return on oath their award to

said Court, and the same shall be confirmed by the Court unless cause to
the contrary be shown; in which case the Court shall at the first term
thereafter decide finally thereon; and when the damages so assessed or
agreed upon shall be paid by the Mayor and City Council of Baltimore
to the persons so assessed, and legally entitled to receive the same, the
Mayor and City Council of Baltimore may proceed to re grade and pave
the said street, lane or alley.

1824, ch. 105. P. L. L. (1860). Alt. 4. sec. 857. P. L. L. (1888), Art. 4, sec. 81&

835. The president, directors and companies of the different turn-
pike companies owning roads running into the City of Baltimore, may
cede to said city such parts of said roads as lie within the corporate limits
of said city; and the same, when ceded, shall be in all respects subject
ro the same regulations as unpaved public streets.

Hooper v. Prest. Balto. & Yorktown. &c., Road, 34 Md. 521. M. & C. C. of Balto,
v. Turnpike Co., 80 Md. 541.

1894, ch. 123.

836. The Mayor and City Council of Baltimore be and it is hereby
authorized and empowered to accept from the owners thereof, a deed of