ALLEGANY COUNTY. 89

STREETS.

1927, ch. 109.

248. The Mayor and Councilmen of Frostburg are hereby authorized
and empowered to close Oak Street in the City of Frostburg from its inter-
section with the alley in the rear of Maple Street, said alley being on the
westerly side of the Frostburg State Normal School No. 2 in said city, to
the intersection of said Oak Street with the alley on the rear of Centre
Street, said alley being located on the easterly side of said school. And
the Mayor and Councilmen of Frostburg may provide for ascertaining
whether any and what amount in value of damages will be caused thereby
to the owner or possessor of any property lying on or through which said
Oak Street may pass which ought to be compensated, by the appointment
of commissioners to assess the same and for assessing and levying, either
generally on the whole assessable property within the city or especially on
the property benefited, including State Normal School No. 2 property now
owned by the State of Maryland, the whole or any part of the damages
and expenses which will be incurred in closing said part of said street.
The Mayor and Councilmen shall grant appeals to the Circuit Court for
Allegany County from the decision of any commissioners or other persona
appointed by virtue of any ordinances to ascertain the damage occasioned
by the closing of said part of said street and for securing to the person
injured the right, on application within thirty (30) days from the return
of the report of the commissioners, to have decided by jury trial whether
any, and what damage he has sustained; to provide for collecting and pay-
ing the compensation awarded to any person before said Oak Street shall
be so closed, and to enact all ordinances from time to time necessary and
proper to the exercise of the powers granted in this Act; provided that
before the Mayor and Councilmen proceed to execute any of the powers
vested in them by this Act, at least thirty (30) days' notice shall be given
of any application which may be made to them for the passage of any such
ordinance by such as they shall prescribe and by personal notice in writing
served twenty (20) days before upon each property holder to be affected
by the passage of the proposed ordinance, provided that said parties are
residents of Maryland.

The powers herein conferred as to the closing of the hereinbefore de-
scribed portion of Oak Street shall be exercised only in the event that the
State of Maryland or the State Board of Education of Maryland shall
secure additional land on the south side of the present school site for school
purposes.

1922, ch. 14.

249. The Mayor and Councilmen of Frostburg are hereby authorized
and empowered to close that part of all that certain alley located in the
rear of Maple Street between Loo and Oak Streets, in the town of Frost-
burg, the said alley being on the westerly side of the property of the State
Normal School No. 2 in said town, and also all that other certain alley