846 ARTICLE 4.

advisable, in its judgment, to acquire, for the accomplishment of the pur-
poses mentioned, and shall moreover have full power to provide for the
ascertainment of the value of all property and rights of property which
it is thus authorized to acquire, and to ascertain whether any and what
amount, in value, of damages will be caused by the construction of the
aforesaid works of improvement in connection with Jones' Falls, or
any of them, to the owner or possessor of any property, or rights of prop-
erty, within the said city, for which the owner or possessor ought to be
compensated, and to ascertain what amount of benefits will be caused
by the construction of the aforesaid works of improvement, or any of
them, to the owner or possessor of any property or rights of property, for
which said owner or possessor ought to pay a compensation, and to provide
for assessing or levying, either generally on the whole assessable property
of the city, or especially on the property of persons benefited, the whole
or any part of the damages and expenses which it shall be ascertained
will be incurred in constructing such works in connection with the improve-
ment of Jones" Falls, as it has determined or shall determine to make.
To provide for granting appeals to Baltimore City Court from the deci-
sion of any Commissioners, or other persons appointed by virtue of any
ordinance, to ascertain the value of the property which the city may
wish to acquire for the purposes aforesaid, or the damages which will
be caused, or the benefits which will accrue, by the construction of the
aforesaid works of improvement, and to secure to every owner or possessor
of any property, or right of property, which it may thus propose to acquire,
or which may thus be decided to be damaged or benefited, the right on
application within a time to be prescribed by ordinance, to have decided
by a jury trial, the true value of the property proposed to be acquired
for the purposes aforesaid, and whether any and what damage will be
caused, or any and what benefits will accrue to the owner or possessor
of the property so assessed for damages or benefits respectively, and to
provide for collecting and paying over the amount of compensation
adjudged to each person entitled, or invest it in the stock of the said city,
for the use of the person so adjudged to be entitled to the same, and to
provide for collection, by the sale of the property assessed, or otherwise,
of all sums assessed as benefits aforesaid, and generally to enact and pass
all ordinances, from time to time, which shall be deemed necessary and
proper to exercise the powers and effect the objects for the exercise and
accomplishment of which this paragraph of this section is passed. To
define and locate the limits of Jones' Falls within the City of Baltimore,
and to acquire by purchase or condemnation, under proceedings for which
provision is made in this Charter, the absolute and exclusive right, and
title to all the land and rights of property embraced within the said
limits, and in the ground covered by all streets or avenues which it may
lay out and condemn on the sides of the stream, and it shall have an
estate in fee simple in the same. It shall have power and is authorized
to construct wharves or quays along the margin of said stream, or use
the said streets or avenues for wharf or quay purposes, and collect tolls