BALTIMORE CITY. 855

(20-D)

1929, ch. 113. sec. 3.

That Ordinance No. 553 of the Mayor and City Council of Baltimore,
approved February 1st, 1926, and all acts done and awards heretofore
made by the Board of Trustees of the Employees Retirement System of
the City of Baltimore under the supposed or assumed authority of said
ordinance are hereby ratified, confirmed and validated to the same extent
and as fully as if tie Mayor and City Council of Baltimore prior to the
passage of said ordinance had been expressly empowered by Act of the
Genera] Assembly of Maryland to ordaiu an ordinance in the precise
terms of said Ordinance No. 553, approved February 1st, 1926.

(21) RAILROADS.

P. L. L. (1860), Art. 4, sec. 856. P. L. L. (1888). Art. 4, sec. 762. 1894, ch. 210

On application or assent, in writing, of the owners of the major part,
in extent of the front feet of the lots fronting on each side of any street,
or part of street, to pass, subject to the provisions and requirements of
sections 37 and 85 of this Charter, such ordinances as shall be necessary
for the construction of any track or railway of a steam railroad on and
along such street; to permit and cause such alteration in the grade of
such street as may be necessary for the more convenient and useful con-
struction of such railway; and may levy and assess on all lots fronting
on such street, or part of street, or on the owners of such lots, their just
proportion of the expense of such construction, and enforce payment
thereof; provided, notice be given to such owners before said assessment
is made, with the right to a hearing as to the propriety of the same, and
the further right of a jury trial by appeal to the Baltimore City Court,
and the proprietor of any lot in front of which any such railway shall
be so constructed, and the just proportion of which shall be paid by him,
shall be entitled, at his own expense, to have a convenient siding or turn-
out made, to enable him to have the beneficial use of such railway. The
city may, whenever the public interests require, revoke the privilege
granted to such railroad to use said street or part of a street, upon the
payment to such railroad of the actual cost of coiistmctioii of said railway
tracks, and upon such revocation and payment aforesaid, the said railroad
shall remove all its tracks from said street. To require street passenger-
railways to provide proper fenders to their cars for the protection of
human life and to lessen the danger thereto arising from collisions with
such cars, and to enforce said requirements by such fines and penalties
as may be prescribed by ordinance. To regulate the use of the streets
by street railways.

N. C. R. R. Co. v. Mayor, 21 Md. 93. N. C. Ry. Co. v. M. & C. C. of Balto., 48-
Md. 425. Hodges v. Balto. P. Ry. Co., 58 Md. 603. N. Balto. B. R. Co. v. N. Avenue
R. R. Co., 75 Md. 233. N. Balto. Pass. R. R. Co. T. Baltimore. 75 Md. 247. Lake
Rol. Bl. R. R. Co. v. Baltimore. 77 Md. 352, 384. Lake Roland, &c.. Co. v. Webster,
81 Md. 529. Park Tax Case. 84 Md. 1. Poole v. Falls Road Ry. Co., 88 Md. 536.
538. United Rys. & Elec. Co. v. Hayes, 92 Md. 490.