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LAWS OF MARYLAND.

SEC. 3. And be it enacted, That the commission-

Assess dam-

ers hereinbefore named shall have power to assess

ages and ben-

all damages sustained by and benefits accruing to

efits.

any one, all parties through whose property said

street shall pass, and provide for the payment by

said city of such proportion of said damages and

costs as they may deem proper.

SEC. 4. And be it enacted, That if any party inter-

ested shall be dissatisfied with the report of said com-

missioners in their assessment of either damages or

May appeal.

benefits, such party may appeal therefrom to the

Circuit Court of Allegany county at any time with-

in thirty days after said commissioners shall have re-

ported their proceedings to the Mayor and City
Council of Cumberland ; and if no such appeal shall

Proceedings
final.

be taken within said time, the said proceedings of

said commissioners shall be final, and their report

shall be recorded in the Clerk's Office of the Circuit

Court of Allegany county, and such appeal shall

be taken it shall stand for trial at the next term of

the Circuit Court of Allegany county, and shall be

Tried by jury

tried by a jury, if any party thereto shall desire,

and the report of said commissioners shall be final,

except as the same may be charged by the finding

of the jury or court (as the case may be), upon any

such appeal or appeals.

SEC. 5. And be it enacted, That in all cases where

land now fronts on said street as at present located,

and whereby the change of location herein provided

for said street shall be moved away from such land,

leaving a portion of the old bed of said street, be-

tween said land and the new bed of said street, said

Vest in fee.

portion of the old bed of said street shall vest in fee

simple in the owner of the land so fronting on the

old street, the intention of this act being to bring

Frontage of

forward to the new line of said street the frontage

lots.

of all lots fronting on the old line of said street, and

said commissioners in assessing damages and benefits

to such land owner shall take into consideration such

acquisition of property.

SEC. 6. And be it enacted, That said commis-

Extend Green

sioners shall lay out and extend Green street from

street.

its present eastern terminus eastwardly until the