1298 ARTICLE 4.

of said city, but the same shall be done at the expense of the owner or
owners of the property upon and along the streets, avenues, lanes or alleys
on which such sidewalks are to be established, widened, graded, paved or
otherwise laid out and improved; and the said Commission in its discre-
tion is authorized and empowered to require said property owners to grade,
pave and improve said sidewalks at their expense, or upon their failure to
do so the Commission may do such work itself and assess said property
for the cost and expenses of such work, and the procedure and rights and
powers of the Commission with reaped; to such work and to such assess-
ments and the collection thereof shall be that now or hereafter prescribed
by law in relation to the duties of a similar nature with which the City
Engineer and other officers of the city are now or may be respectively
clothed, or the procedure and the rights and powers of said Commission
may be such as may be provided for the very purpose by any lawful ordi-
nance or ordinances of the Mayor and City Council of Baltimore, which
said ordinance or ordinances the Mayor and City Council of Baltimore
is hereby fully authorized to adopt, provided provision is made in such
ordinance or ordinances for reasonable notice to the owner or owners and
for appeals to the Baltimore City Court, and the right of appeal to the
Court of Appeals by any person interested, including the Mayor and City
Council of Baltimore.

1910, ch. 736, sec. 7.

841Q. That the Mayor and City Council of Baltimore be and are
hereby authorized to issue stock to an amouunt not exceeding two million
five hundred thousand dollars, to be issued from time to time and payable
at such time and bearing such rate of interest as the said Mayor and City
Council of Baltimore shall by ordinance prescribe; provided, however,
that not more than five hundred thousand dollars of said stock shall be
issued in any one year. The proceeds of the sale of said stock shall be
used only for the purpose of providing the costs and expenses of condem-
nation, opening, grading, paving and curbing the streets, avenues, lanes
and alleys of the annex portion of Baltimore City; said stock shall be
sold and issued by the Commissioners of Finance of the City of Baltimore
at the best prices obtainable in their judgment therefor, and any premiums
derived from the sale thereof shall remain in their hands, as part of the
sinking funds hereinafter mentioned for the redemption of said stocks at
maturity. The residue of the money received from the sale of said stock
shall be turned over by them to the Comptroller, to be by him deposited
with the City Register, and to be placed to the credit of a special fund,
to be known as the "Annex Improvement Fund," which shall be exclu-
sively applicable to the purposes in the section above specified, and shall
be chargeable with no Other items of cost or expense whatever; provided,
however, that not more than five hundred thousand dollars ($500,000.00)
of said stock shall be issued for any one year after appropriations for the
cost of said work shall have been duly included and allowed for each year
in the usual way in the Ordinance of Estimates, then, upon the written