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LAWS OF MARYLAND.

driveways on each side thereof, and to provide for assess-

ing and levying on the whole assessable property of said

city, or on the property of persons hpecially benefited, the

whole or any part of the amount of damages and expenses

which may be incurred in acquiring the said land, and in

locating and laying out the said line of square ; and to pro-

vide for the granting of appeals to the Baltimore City

Court, from the decisions of any commissioner or other per-

son appointed in virtue of any ordinance to ascertain the

damages which will be caused, or the benefit which will

accrue to the owners or possessors of ground, or improve-

ments in acquiring said land, and in locating, laying out

and extending the said square from Dolphin to Biddle street,

and for securing to every such owner and possessor the

right, on application within a reasonable time, to have

decided by a jury trial, whether any damage has been

caused, or any benefit has accrued to them, and to what

amount ; and to provide for collecting and paying over the

amount of compensation adjudged to each person entitled,

or investing it in stock of said corporation, for the use of

any such person who, because of their infancy, absence from

the city, or any other cause, may be prevented from reciev-

ing it, before any part of the land lying within the said

lines shall be taken.

SEC. 2. Before the said mayor and city council shall pass

any ordinance under the preceding section, at least sixty

Shall give
notice.

days' notice shall be given of any application for the pas-

sage of such ordinance, in at least two daily newspapers

in said city.

SEC. 3. Before any commissioner, appointed by any

Ibid.

ordinance of said corporation under the two preceding sec-

tions, shall proceed to the performance of their duty, they

shall give notice in at least two of the daily newspapers in

the city of Baltimore of the object of the ordinance under

which they propose to act, at least thirty days before the

time of their first meeting to execute the same.

Approved April 4th, 1892.