JOSEPH KENT, ESQUIRE, GOVERNOR.

1827

SEC. 2. And be h enacted, That in case the mayor and city
council shall not on or before the day and year aforesaid,
approve said reduction of the width of said street, from Ais-
quith street eastwardly, then the owner or owners of property
so condemned as aforesaid, on the south side of Orleans
street, may improve their said condemned property, and
whenever the said street shall hereafter be opened agreeably
to the directions and plat of the commissioners herein before
referred to, proper allowance of damages'shall be made for the
ground tak n to widen said street, and also for the improve-
ments thereon erected, prior to the passage of the act, passed
at December session eighteen hundred and seventeen, chap-
ter one hundred and forty eight, or after the first day of
March eighteen hundred and twenty nine, any thing in said
act of December session eighteen hundred and seventeen,
chapter one hundred and forty eight, or in any other act of

CHAP. 123

Improvments au-
thorised on the
condemned prop-
erty

assembly to the contrary notwithstanding; Provided neverthe
less, That no owner or owners of property on the south side
of Orleans street, shall be allowed any damages for improve-
ments to be made by said owaer or owners in virtue of tHis
act, unless before commencing said improvements, the said
owner or owners shall have given notice, once a week for four
successive weeks, in at least two of the daily newspapers of
-the city of Baltimore, setting forth, that under and by virtue
of this act, the said owner or owners would proceed to make
Improvements upon said owner or owners part of the afore-
said condemned property, designating the same six months
after the first appearance of said owner or owners notice in
the two newspapers aforesaid, in case the said street or so
much thereof, as fronted the property of the person or persons
signing said notice, should not have been opened in the man-
ner prescribed by the act of eighteen hundred and seventeen,
chapter one hundred and forty eight, and any supplement
thereto, before the expiration of said six months.

Proviso— Notice

SEC. 3. And be it enacted, That after the expiration of said
six months, computing the beginning of the same from the
appearance of the said owner or owners advertisement in the
two newspapers as aforesaid, and upon the said owner or
owners filing with the register of the city, certificates of the
publication of the notice or advertisement as herein required
to be made, the said owner or owners who gave such notice,
and whose signatures are to the same, and none others shall
be entitled to the benefit of this act,

This act extended
only to such as give
notice

CHAPTER 124

An act for the widening of Orange Alley, in the city of Balti-
more

Passed March 6,

1828.

WHEREAS, it has been represented to this general assembly,
by the petition of sundry inhabitants of the city of Baltimore,
that the widening of Orange Alley, between North and Hol-

Preamble.