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LAWS OF MARYLAND.

CHAPTER 125.

AN ACT to pro vide for paying the costs and expenses

of grading Wilkens' avenue from Gwynn's Falls to

the Rolling road, in Baltimore county, by the com-

missioners of said county.

Whereas, under an Act of the General Assembly,

passed April fourth, eighteen hundred and seventy,

and a further act, passed March twenty-third, eighteen
hundred and seventy-six, the Commissioners of Bal-

timore county, upon certain conditions therein stated,

were authorized to have Wilkens' avenue from

Gwynn's Falls to the Rolling road graded; and

whereas the County Commissioners of Baltimore

county did contract with P. O'Brien and others for the

Preamble.

grading of said avenue from the west side of Gwynn's
Falls to the eastsideof the Rolling road, in said county;
and whereas, although the work was executed and

completed eastward from the Rolling road until it

intersects with the Maiden's Choice road, at the Bal-

timore and Potomac Railroad, where said contrac-

tors were stopped by injunction, the claim of the

contractors and their associates in said work remains

unpaid by reason of alleged omissions and errors of

the said Commissioners of Baltimore county ; now,

therefore,

SEC. 1. Be it enacted, by the General Assembly of

Maryland, That the Commissioners of Baltimore

Commis-
sioners au-
thorized to

county be and they are hereby authorized, empowered
and directed to pay to Patrick O'Brien and the other

pay.

persons entitled to receive the same the money still

due and owing for the grading of said avenue from the
Maiden's choice road, at the Baltimore and Potomac

Railroad, to the Rolling road aforesaid, in said county,

in accordance with the contract heretofore entered

into between said O'Brien and others with the Com-

Accepted and

missioners of Baltimore county, and by them ac-

approved.

cepted and approved the seventh day of October,

eighteen hundred and seventy-three, with interest

from the time said work was completed, and all

All other ex-

other expenses incidental for the laying out and

penses.

grading thereof due to D. J. McCawley, John C.

Holland and others.