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whether any damage and what amount of damage has
been caused or whether any benefit, and what amount
of benefit has accrued to them; and to provide for col-
lecting and paying over the amount of compensation
adjudged to each person to receive the same, or invest-
ing in stock of said corporation bearing interest of five
per centum per annum for the use of any person who
because of infancy, absence from the city, or other
cause, may be prevented from receiving it before any
sewer shall be constructed, opened, enlarged or straight-
ened in any street, lane or alley, or through any pri-
vate property, and to enact and pass all ordinances
from time to time which shall be deemed necessary
and proper to exercise the power and effect the objects
herein specified.

808. The amount of benefit assessed on any pro-
perty for constructing, opening, enlarging or straight-
ening any sewer in any street, lane or alley, or through
any private property constructed, opened, enlarged or
straightened by virtue of any ordinance passed by the
mayor and city council of Baltimore, shall be a lien on
the property and recoverable as city taxes are.

Ibid c 2.
Benefits assess-
ed, a lien.

809. Before the mayor and city council of Balti-
more shall pass any ordinance under the first section of

Ibid. s. 3.
Passage of ordi-
nance

this act, notice shall be given of an application for the
passage of such an ordinance in at least two of the
daily newspapers of said city twice a week for sixty
days.

Notice to be
given.

810. Before any commissioners appointed by any
ordinance of said corporation under the preceding sec-
tions of this act shall proceed to the performance of

Ibid. s. 4.
Commission-
ers.

their duty, they shall give daily notice in at least two
newspapers in the city of Baltimore of the object of
the ordinance under which they propose to act, at least
thirty days before the time of the first meeting to
execute the same.

Notice to be
given of object
of ordinance.

811. Should the commissioners appointed by the
mayor and city council of Baltimore to levy any part
of the expense and damage incurred in the construc-
tion, opening, enlarging or straightening any sewer in

Ibid. s. 5.
Tax. ,