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CHAP. 101

amount of any interest or penalties or both, due for non-
payment of the same, shall be prima facie evidence to entitle
either the Mayor and City Council of Baltimore or the State
of Maryland, as the case may be, to a verdict and judgment,
or to an order or decree, as the proceedings may warrant,
against such corporation, firm or individual; and in the case
of an individual, whether the individual be sued or proceeded
against in a representative or fiduciary capacity, or in his or
her own right, for the full amount of such tax or taxes,
together with any interest or penalties or both, which said
certificate shall so state to be due and owing.

Approved March 15, 1906.

CHAPTER 102.
AN ACT to empower the. Mayor and City Council of Balti-
more to compensate abutting property holders injuriously
affected by certain establishments and changes of grade
in the city of Baltimore.
WHEREAS, By ordinance of the Mayor and City Council

Preamble.

of Baltimore, No. 91, approved June 7, 1904, it was declared
to be the sense of the Mayor and City Council of Baltimore
that this General Assembly ought to pass an Act empower-
ing the Mayor and City Council of Baltimore to compensate
in damages property holders injuriously affected by the estab-
lishments and changes of grade approved by said ordinance,
and by it asserted to be virtually parts of the Burnt District
Commission plan of improvements, under such provision for
the ascertainment of such damages and of counterbalancing
benefits as might be made in said Act,

SECTION 1. Now, therefore, be it enacted by the General

Award dam-
ages.

Assembly of Maryland, That the Mayor and City Council of
Baltimore be and it is hereby authorized and empowered to
authorize and direct the Commissioners for Opening Streets,
under such system of procedure, including reasonable notice
to the property holders and the right of appeal by either the
property holder or the Mayor and City Council of Baltimore,
to the Baltimore City Court and the Court of Appeals of
Maryland, as it may prescribe, to ascertain and award to the
owners of abutting property in the city of Baltimore affected
by the establishments and changes of grade mentioned in