460 CITY OF BALTIMORE. [ART. 4.

erty, within the said city, for which such owner or possessor ought
to pay a compensation; and to provide for assessing and levying,
either generally on the whole assessable property of said city, or
specially on the property of persons benefited, the whole or any
part of the amount of damages and expenses which it shall be
ascertained will be incurred in constructing such works, in con-
nection with the improvement of Jones' falls, as the said mayor
and city council of Baltimore have determined, or shall determine
to make; to provide for granting appeals to the Baltimore city
court from the decisions of any commissioners, or other persons
appointed in virtue of any ordinance; to ascertain the value of
the property which the city may wish to acquire for the purposes
aforesaid, or the damages which will be caused, or the benefits
which will accrue, by the construction of the aforesaid works of
improvement ; and to secure to every owner or possessor of any
property, or right to property, which the said mayor and city
council thus purpose to acquire, or which may be thus decided to
be damaged or benefited, the right, on application within a time
to be prescribed by any ordinance of said mayor and city council,
to have decided by a jury trial the true value of the property
proposed to be acquired for the purposes aforesaid, and whether
any and what damage will be caused, or any and what benefit
will accrue to the owner or possessor of the property so assessed
for damages and benefits, respectively; and further, to provide
for collecting and paying over the amount of compensation ad-
judged to each person entitled, or investing it in stock of the said
corporation, bearing not less than five per cent, interest, for the
use of the person so adjudged to be entitled to the same, and to
provide for the collection by sale of the property assessed, or
otherwise, of all sums assessed as benefits as aforesaid, and generally
to enact and pass all ordinances, from time to time, which shall
be deemed necessary and proper to exercise the powers and effect
the objects for the exercise and accomplishment of which this
sub-title of this article is passed.
Gregge Mayor, &c , 56 Md 256.

1870, ch. 115.

576. They are authorized and empowered to define and locate
the limits of Jones' falls within the city of Baltimore, and to
acquire by purchase or condemnation, under proceedings for which