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vide for granting appeals to Baltimore City Court from the
decision of any Commissioners, or other persons appointed by

virtue of any ordinance, to ascertain the value of the property
which the City may wish to acquire for the purposes aforesaid,
or the damages which will be caused, or the benefits which will
accrue, by the construction of the aforesaid works of improve-
ment, and to secure to every owner or possessor of any property,
or right of property, which it may thus purpose to acquire, or
which may thus be decided to be damaged or benefited, the
right, on application within a time to be prescribed by ordi-
nance, to have decided by a jury trial, the true value of the
property proposed to be acquired for the purposes aforesaid,
and whether any and what damage will be caused, or any and
what benefits will accrue to the owner or possessor of the prop-
erty so assessed for damages or benefits respectively, and to
provide for collecting and paying over the amount of compen-
sation adjudged to each person entitled, or invest it in the stock
of the said City, for the use of the person so adjudged to be enti-
tled to the same, and to provide for collection, by the sale of the
property assessed, or otherwise, of all sums assessed as benefits
aforesaid, and generally to enact and pass all ordinances, from
time to time, which shall be deemed necessary and proper to ex-
ercise the powers and effect the objects for the exercise and ac-
complishment of which this paragraph of this section is passed.
To define and locate the limits of Jones's Falls within the City
of Baltimore, and to acquire by purchase or condemnation,
under proceedings for which provision is made in this Article,
the absolute and exclusive right and title to all the lands and
rights of property embraced within the said limits, and in the
ground covered by all streets or avenues which it may lay out
and condemn 6n the sides of the stream, and it shall have an
estate in fee simple in the same. It shall have power
and is authorized to construct wharves or quays along
the margin of said stream, or use the said streets or ave-
nues for wharf or quay purposes, and collect tolls or
wharfage, from all vessels or boats using the same. To make
such changes in the grades of the streets in the City of Balti-
more as shall, in its judgment, be necessary for the proper con-
struction of works connected with the improvement of Jones's
Falls, which it may determine to construct, and it shall not be