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pursuant to the powers conferred upon it by Section 6,
Article 4, (entitled "City of Baltimore") of the Code of
Public Local Laws of Maryland, title " General Powers,"
sub-title "Condemnation of Property," for the condemnation
of any land or property or interest therein situated wholly or
partly within the city of Baltimore, or such as may be pro-
vided for the very purpose by any lawful ordinance or ordi-
nances of the Mayor and City Council of Baltimore, which
said ordinance or ordinances the Mayor and City Council of
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CHAP. 401
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Baltimore is hereby fully authorized to adopt; provided,
provision is made therein for reasonable notice to the owner
or owners, and for appeals to the Baltimore City Court,
. including the right of appeal to the Court of Appeals by any
person interested, including the Mayor and City Council of
Baltimore, from the decision of any commissioners or other
persons appointed to value any such private property, rights
or interests, franchises or easements.
SEC. 4. And be it further enacted, That all individuals and
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Proviso.
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Corporations lawfully having buildings, structures, works, con-
duits, drains, mains, pipes, tracks or other physical obstruc-
tions in, over or under the public lanes, alleys, avenues, streets
or highways of the city of Baltimore, which shall block or
impede the progress of the work of said commission when
under way, shall, upon reasonable notice from said commis-
sion, promptly so shift, adjust, accommodate or remove the
same, at their own cost and expense, as to fully meet the
exigencies occasioning such notice; and if any individual or
corporation shall refuse, neglect or fail, after such reasonable
notice, to discharge any duty cast upon him or it by this
section, he or it shall, in addition to, but not in substitu-
tion for, any other remedy or remedies that said com-
mission or the Mayor and City Council of Baltimore
may have in the premises, be subject to a fine of one hun-
dred ($100) dollars for each and every offence, and also to
an additional fine of fifty ($50) dollars a day for every day
that said refusal, neglect or failure shall continue, said
fines to be collected as other fines in the city of Baltimore
are collected; and should the exigencies of said commis-
sion and its work in any cause involve a taking, in the
constitutional sense, of the franchise or right, in the exer-
cise of which such obstruction had its origin, the Mayor and
City Council of Baltimore shall be empowered to secure the
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May remove
same at their
own expense.
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