ART. 4.] JONES' FALLS. 459

comfort, care and nursing cannot be furnished by the said jail,
the board of visitors to said jail shall have the power to release
and send such person to his house, and if without a home to some,
infirmary, hospital, or Bayview, when provision has been made
by the city of Baltimore for the reception of such cases.

JONES' FALLS

1870, ch. 115.

574. The mayor and city council of Baltimore are authorized
and empowered to make such improvements in connection with
Jones' falls as in their judgment are desirable; and for this pur-
pose, to change the course, lines and boundaries of the said stream,
in whole or part; to widen and deepen the same; to lay out and
construct on the sides of and adjacent to the said stream, streets,
avenues and wharves; to construct all such sewers and drains in
said city as shall be deemed requisite in connection with the said
improvement; and generally to do all such things and exercise
all such powers as, in their judgment, shall be necessary to be
done and exercised for the accomplishment of any plan for the
improvement of Jones' falls which have been or may be adopted
by them.

Merrick v. Mayor, &c., 43 Md. 219. Mayor, &c v. Musgrave, 48 Md. 272.

Ibid.

575. They shall have the power at any time to acquire alt
property of every kind and description which it may be necessary
or advisable in their judgment to acquire for the accomplish-
ment of the purposes mentioned in the preceding section, and
shall moreover have full power to provide for the ascertainment
of the value of all property and rights of property which they
are thus authorized to acquire; and also to ascertain whether any
and what amount, in value, of damages, will be caused by the
construction of the aforesaid works of improvement in connection
with Jones' falls, or any of them, to the owner or possessor of
any property, or rights of property, within the said city, for
which said owner or possessor ought to be compensated; and also-
to ascertain what amount of benefits will be caused by the con-
struction of the aforesaid works of improvement, or any of them,
to the owner or possessor of any property, or rights of prop-