JOSEPH KENT, ESQUIRE, GOVERNOR.

CHAP CCXLIX
An Act to exempt the Baltimore Athaeneum from Taxation.

Be it enacted by the General Assembly of Maryland,}

That the lot of ground and building thereon, situate at the \
south-west intersection of Saint Paul's treet and West Lexing-
ton-street in the city of Baltimore, now held and owned by
the Baltimore Athaeneum, be exempt, and the same are hereby
exempted, from taxation and public assessment, for the term of
five years, provided the same shall continue to be the property
or estate of the Baltimore Athaeneum aforesaid, any thing to
the contrary thereof notwithstanding.

CHAP.249

Passed Mar 9. 1827
Lot and building
exempt from taxa-
ion

CHAP. CCL.
An Act to provide for the valuation and condemnation of certain Real
Estate in the City of Baltimore.

Passed Mar 8, 1827

1 . Be it enacted by the General Assembly of Maryland,
That Solomon Etting, William Lorman, David Winchester,
Talbot Jones and Benjamin C. Howard, or a majority of them,
are appointed commissioners, and hereby authorised and empow-
ered, upon giving ten days notice in two of the daily newspa-
pers printed in the city of Baltimore, of their intention to pro-

ceed, under the provisions of this act, to value and assess so
much of the land lying south of Pratt-street, between Market
space dock and O'Donnell's dock, with the improvements there-
on, in the city of Baltimore, as under the direction of the
governor and council, they may deem proper and necessary to
perfect the design as contemplated by the act of December ses-
sion eighteen hundred and twenty-five, chapter one hundred
and fifty-nine, including such portion of ground and apperte-
nances as the governor and council may deem necessary for a
public street, or other necessary convenience for public use, and
shall by their order, certified by the clerk of the council, direct
the said commissioners to value and assess under this act, and
the decision of the said commissioners shall be final and conclu-
sive as to the actual and correct worth of the land and improve-
ments so valued and assessed, unless an appeal shall be prose-
cuted as herein after provided for; and the amount of damages
for the land or real estate and property as aforesaid, so valued
and assessed, being paid or offered to be paid to the person or
persons entitled to receive the same, of which payment, or of-
fer to pay, a certificate, signed by a majority of said commissi-
oners, and recorded among the land records of Baltimore coun-
ty court, or a copy of such record certified by the clerk of the
said court, under the seal thereof, shall be sufficient evidence,
the state of Maryland shall thenceforward be considered the
true and lawful owner and proprietor of the said land or real
estate, with the improvements thereon, and all wharves and
other appertenanees thereto belonging or appertaining, and all
right, title, estate and interest therein, at law and in equity,

Commissioners to
value lands , &c

shall be vested in the said state; Provided always, that if the
owner or owners of the said land or real estate, his, her or then
guardian or guardians, trustee or trustees, shall conceive him,
ber or themselves, aggrieved by such valuation and assessment,

Proviso