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or wharfage from all vessels or boats using the same. To make such
changes in the grades of the streets in the City of Baltimore as shall, in
its judgment, be necessary for the proper construction of works connected
with the improvements of Jones' Falls, which it may determine to con-
struct, and it, shall not be necessary, in order to make such changes in
the grades of streets, to obtain the consent of any of the proprietors of
the ground fronting on said streets, or affected by such changes. To make
such provisions as it shall deem best for defraying the cost of grading
and paving of any streets or avenues which it may lay out and condemn
along the margin or side of Jones' Falls. To issue bonds to an amount
not exceeding two million five hundred thousand dollars, from time to
time, as the same may be required in the course of the construction of
the works connected with the improvement of Jones' Falls, for the con-
struction of which provision is made by the ordinance of the Mayor and
City Council of Baltimore, entitled "An ordinance to provide for the
improvement of Jones' Falls within the limits of the City of Baltimore,
and to open avenues and construct sewers on the borders thereof," the
said bonds to be issued in sums of not less than one hundred dollars each,
redeemable in thirty years, and bearing interest at 6 per cent, per annum,
payable quarterly, transferable as other city bonds, as provided in sec-
tions one and two of an ordinance of the flavor and City Council of
Baltimore entitled "An ordinance to authorize the issuing of bonds of
the City of Baltimore, for the purpose of providing means for the
improvement of Jones' Falls, approved January 31, 1870; provided
that said bonds shall not be issued unless the last mentioned ordinance
shall have been approved by the votes of a majority of the legal
voters of the said city, cast at the time and places provided for in the
last mentioned ordinance. To compel any individuals, companies or
bodies politic, owning property binding on Jones' Falls, within the limits
of the city, to wall up such property, so far as the same may bind on
the falls, with a good and sufficient stone wall, to such height as in its
judgment the public good may require, and to have the same backed up
or filled in with earth, so as to secure the same and the adjacent property
from danger of being inundated with water; and whenever it may deem
necessary, to compel individuals, companies or bodies politic, to rebuild
or repair, in a good and sufficient manner, any stone wall owned by them
and binding on Jones' Falls within the limits of the City of Baltimore;
and should any individuals, companies or bodies politic neglect or refuse
to wall up Jones' Falls, rebuild or repair any such wall within the limits
of the City of Baltimore, when required so to do, the said city may cause
the same to be done, and it is authorized and empowered to recover the
cost of such wall, rebuilding or repairing, by suit at law, from the party
who may have refused or neglected to build, rebuild or repair such wall;
and the cost of such wall shall be a lien on the property so walled up or
repaired.

M. & C. C. of Baltimore v. Lefferman, 4 Gill, 425. Merrick v. Mayor, 43 Md. 219.
Mayor, &c., v. Musgrave, 48 Md. 272. Gregg v. Mayor, 56 Md. 256. See Norwood
v. Baker, 172 U. S. 83.