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located in the rear of Centre Street between Loo and Oak Streets in said
town, said alley being on the easterly side of said school property, and also
all that other alley lying between the property of Annie K. Myers and
Hugh Spier, fronting on Water Street in said town, and commonly known

as "Old Ormand Street Alley." And the Mayor and Councilmen of Frost-
burg 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 alleys may pass, which ought to be com-
pensated by the appointment of Commissioners to assess the same and for
assessing and levying, either generally on the whole assessable property
within the town, or specially on the property benefited, the whole or any
part of the damages and expense which will be incurred in closing said
alleys, or any of them. The Mayor and Councilmen shall have power to
grant appeals to the Circuit Court for Allegany County from the decision
of any Commissioners' or other persons appointed in virtue of any ordi-
nance to ascertain the damage occasioned by the closing of such alleys, or
any of them, and for securing to the person injured the right on applica-
tion within thirty days from the return of the report of the Commissioners,
to have decided by a jury trial whether any and what damage he has sus-
tained; to provide for collecting and paying the compensation awarded to
any person before said alleys, or any of them, 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 days' notice shall be given of any application which may
be made to them, for the passage of any such ordinance by such advertise-
ment as they shall prescribe and by personal notice in writing served
twenty days before upon each property holder to be affected by the passage
of the proposed ordinance, giving notice of the time and place named for
the passage of said ordinance, provided that said parties are residents of
Maryland.

The powers herein conferred as to the two alleys first mentioned in this
Act shall be exercised only in the event that the State Board of Education

shall secure additional land on the east or west side, as the case may be, of
the present site of the said school. If all the land between Loo and Oak
Streets on both sides is secured, then both alleys are to be closed in accord-
ance with the provisions of this Act, but if all the land between Loo and
Oak Streets on one side only is secured, then the alley on that side only
shall be closed.

PARKS AND PLAYGROUNDS.

1927, ch. 211.

250. The Mayor and Councilmen of Frostburg are hereby authorized
and empowered to receive, have, hold, use, and enjoy by way of purchase,
gift, or otherwise, any real estate or any leasehold interest therein within

or without the corporate limits of said City for park or playground pur-