THOMAS SWANN, ESQUIRE, GOVERNOR.

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CHAPTER 73.

AN ACT to amend article twenty-one of the Code
of Public Local Laws of Washington county,
by adding thereto additional sections authoriz-
ing the Mayor and Council of Hagerstown, to
lay out and open streets and alleys in said town.

Passed Feb.
7, 1866.

SECTION 1. Be it enacted ty the General Assembly
of Maryland, That the following sections be added
to article twenty-one of the Code of Public Local
Laws for Washington county, to come in after sec-
tion one hundred and twenty-three of said article:

Sections
added.

124. That the Mayor and Council shall have
power to provide for laying out, opening, and ex-
tending any street or alley within the town, which
in their opinion the public welfare or convenience
may require; to provide for ascertaining whether
any, and what amount in value of damage will be
caused thereby, for which the owner or possessor
of any property through which such street or alley
may pass, ought to be compensated, and for assess-
ing and levying, either generally on the whole as-
sessable property with the town, or specially on
property of persons benefitted, the whole or any
part of the damages and expenses which will be
incurred in laying out or extending such street or

Power to lay
out streets,
&c.

alley; for granting appeals to the Circuit Court
for Washington county, from the decisions of any
commissioners or other persons appointed in virtue
of any ordinance, to ascertain the damage occa-
sioned by the opening or extending of such street
or alley, and for securing to the person injured the
right, on application within thirty days from the
return of the report of the commissioners, to have
decided by a jury trial whether any and what dam-

May grant

appeals.

age he has sustained; to provide for collecting and
paying the compensation awarded to any per-
son before any street or alley shall he so opened or
extended, and to enact all ordinances from time to
time necessary and proper to the exercise of the

Award.

powers granted in this section: provided, that be-
fore the Mayor and Council proceed to execute any
of the powers vested in them by this section, at
least thirty days notice shall be given of any ap-
plication which may be made for the passage of

Proviso.