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along the margin of said stream, or use the said streets
and avenues for wharf or quay purposes, and collect
tolls and wharfage from all vessels or boats using the
same.

Ibid. s. 4.
May change
grades of
streets.

971. The mayor and city council of Baltimore is
authorized and empowered to make such changes in
the grades of the streets in the city as shall, in the
judgment of the said mayor and city council, be neces-
sary and requisite for the proper construction of the
works connected with the improvement of Jones' Falls
which said mayor and city council may determine to
construct; and it shall not be necessary, in order to
make such changes in the grades of said streets, to
obtain the assent of any of the proprietors of the
ground fronting on said streets or affected by such
changes.

Ibid s. 5
May provide for
expenses.

972. The mayor and city council of Baltimore are
authorized to make such provisions as to them shall
seem best, for the defraying of the cost of the grading
and paving of any streets or avenues which they may
lay out and condemn along the margin or sides of said
Jones' Falls.

Ibid. s. 6.
What sections
not applicable
hereto.

973. None of the provisions of Article four, public
local laws, in reference to constructing sewers and open-
ing and paving streets in the city of Baltimore, shall
apply to the construction of the sewers, and to the
opening and paving of the streets and avenues for
which provision is made in this act, save in so far as
the said provision may be made applicable thereto by
an ordinance or ordinances of the mayor and city coun-

Proviso

cil of Baltimore passed for that purpose; and provided
further, that no appeal shall lie from the decisions of
the Baltimore city court in proceedings in said court
under this act.

Ibid. s. 7.
City ordinance
confirmed.

974. All of the provisions of an ordinance of the
mayor and city council of Baltimore, entitled "an or-
dinance to provide for the improvement of Jones' Falls
within the limits of the city of Baltimore, " approved
January thirty-first, eighteen hundred and seventy,
shall have the same force, effect and operation, and be