246 CITY OP BALTIMORE. [ART. 4.

1870, c. 282 repeals and re-enacts section 861 to read as follows:

18TO, c. 282. Streets, &c., not to be paved, &c., without assent of owner of majority of ground.

861. They shall not cause any unpaved street, lane or alley within said city to be paved or re-paved with- out the assent in writing of the proprietors of a ma- jority of the ground binding and fronting thereon, or the part thereof to be paved or re-paved, except where streets, lanes or alleys have been opened, widened, straightened or altered within the limits of direct taxa- tion, in which cases they may pass such ordinances as may be necessary to have such streets, lanes or alleys paved or re-paved without first obtaining the assent of such owners thereto; and in all cases of paving or re- paving streets, lanes or alleys, they shall have full

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power to assess upon the owners of property on the street, lane or alley, or part thereof to be paved or re- paved, their proportional part of the expenses, and to collect the same in like manner as other city taxes are collected. Approved and in force April 4, 1870.

NOTE —For the act of 1870, c. 99 which provides for the laying off of streets in
Baltimore county, adjoining the city, see public local laws, Article III, Baltimore
county, sub-title Roads.

VAGRANTS.

1870, c. 225 repeals and re-enacts sections 922, 924, 926 and 927 to read as follows:

1870, c 225. Poor children may be sent to homo of the friendless.

922. The justices of the peace for Baltimore city, the trustees of the poor for said city, and the ward mana- gers of the poor in said city, may commit to the care and charge of the house of the friendless, instead of sending to the almshouse, all children, whether male or female, who are destitute or suffering for want of support, or who may be found begging about the streets of the city, or who are children of beggars.

Managers may bind.

924. The home of the friendless; and the managers thereof, may retain the said children under their care until they shall be eighteen years, or any shorter period, and may bind them out for a time not to exceed the age of eighteen years in the case of females, [and of twenty-one years in the case of females, ] and of