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of the person or corporation so entitled, until such damages shall be paid,
or the amount thereof invested in the city stock, for the use of each person
or corporation entitled to any part of the compensation for such damages,
to the amount of his, her or their respective right and interest therein,
of which investment the City Register's certificate, under the corporate
seal of the city, shall be competent proof.

Gould v. Mayor. 59 Md. 378. Central Savings Bank v. Baltimore, 71 Md. 517.
Zion Church v. Baltimore City, 71 Md. 524. Dyer v. Dobler, 137 Md. 682.

1898, ch. 123.

186. Any person or persons not claiming title to any lot or piece of
property upon which any sums shall be assessed, as aforesaid, may pay
the amount of the sum so assessed, within the time limited, to the City
Register, and obtain his certificate of having paid such sum without claim-
ing title to the property; and such payment shall vest in the person or
persons paying his, her or their heirs, the lien on such lot or property
mentioned in this Charter.

State ex rel. Henderson v. Taylor, 59 Md. 338.

1898, ch. 123.

187. If it should so happen that any one or more of said Commission-
ers should be interested in any particular case, the Mayor shall make a
temporary appointment of a Commissioner or Commissioners, to act in
the place and stead of such interested Commissioner or Commissioners,
who shall take the oath or affirmation, as the case may be, and in all re-
spects conduct himself and have all the powers as the other Commissioners
who are appointed by the Mayor.

1898, ch. 123.

188. Whenever any lot, or part of a lot, or parcel of ground may be-
taken and included within the lines of any street, lane or alley, or part
thereof, and damages assessed therefor, and there shall be an outstanding
unexpired term of years therein, the said Commissioners shall discrimi-
nate in their proceedings between the value of fee simple or ground rent
interest, and the leasehold interest.

Mayor, &c., v. Rice, 73 Md. 307. Gluck v. Mayor, 81 Md. 315.

1912, ch. 32.

189. Whenever any obstruction shall have remained in any street, lane-
or alley, or part thereof so opened, for the space of sixty days after the
proceedings of said Commissioners shall have been completed, it shall be
the duty of said Commissioners to cause the same to be removed and to
draw on the Register for the expense so incurred, which shall be paid by
him, and the Mayor shall forthwith cause a suit for the recovery of said
expenses to be instituted against the person or persons by whose default
the said obstruction has been suffered to remain, and the same, when re-
covered, shall be paid to the Register for the use of the city.

190. Vacant.