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LAWS OF MARYLAND.

any commissioners, or other persons appointed in any man-

Appeals to

ner to determine any benefits or damages in any form of

Baltimore
City Court

condemnation proceedings, for the use of the mayor and

city council of Baltimore, it shall be lawful for the

mayor and city council to enter appeals in the same manner

and within the same time or times allowed for their entry

by other persons ; and all such appeals by whomsoever

prayed within the time or times limited therefor, shall be

heard and determined by the Baltimore City Court as

speedily as may be, each person interested being secured in

his, her or its right to a jury trial, and in case there should

Consoli-

be more than one appeal in reference to the same piece of

dation.

property, they may all be heard together in the discretion

of the court before one jury, provided a sufficient panel of

Proviso.

jurors be furnished, so that the mayor and city council and

the owners or representatives of each separate interest or

estate in such property may strike four names from such

panel, the practice including the right of appeal to the

Court of Appeals in all such cases, shall conform as near as

may be to the practice now prevailing in said court in the

trial of appeals from the decisions of the commissioners for

opening streets.

Effective

SEC. 2. And be it further enacted, That this act shall take

effect from the date of its passage.

Approved March 23rd, 1892.

CHAPTER 188.

AN ACT to amend article twenty-three of the Code of Pub-

lic General Laws of Maryland, entitled "Corporations,"

sub -title "Turnpikes, Plank Roads and Passenger Rail-

way Companies," by adding a new section thereto, to be

known as section two hundred and thirty-six A.

SECTION 1. Be it enacted by the General Assembly of

Maryland. That article twenty-three of the Code of Public

New

General Laws of Maryland, entitled " Corporations," sub-

section.

title "Turnpikes, Plank Roads and Passenger Railway

Companies," be and the same is hereby amended, by the

addition of a new section thereto, to be known as section

two hundred and thirty-six A, and to read as follows.

SEC. 236 A. All turnpikes or plank road companies in

this State, are hereby authorized and empowered to charge

and collect such rates of toll for traction engines, steam

engines and all vehicles attached thereto, which shall be