258 LAWS OF MARYLAND.

the line of parking known as Eutaw Square from Dolphin
street to Biddle street, and the driveways on each side thereof;
and to provide for assessing and levying on the whole assess-
able property of the said City, or on the property of persons
thereby benefited, the whole or any part of the damages and
expenses which may be incurred in acquiring said land, and in
locating and laying out the said line of square; and to provide
for the granting of appeals to the Baltimore City Court, from
the decisions of the Commissioners for Opening Streets or
any Commissioners, or other persons, appointed by authority
of any ordinance to ascertain the damages which will be
caused or the benefits which will accrue to the owners or
possessors of ground, or improvements in acquiring said land,
and in locating, laying out and extending said square from
Dolphin street to Biddle street, and for securing to every such
owner and possessor the right, on application within a reason-
able time, to have decided by a jury trial, whether any damage
has been caused, or any benefit has accrued to them, and to
what amount; and to provide for collecting and paying over the
amount of compensation adjudged to each person entitled, or
investing it in stock of said City, for the use of any such per-
sons who, because of their infancy, absence from the City, or
any other cause, may be prevented from receiving it, before any
part of the land lying within the said lines shall be taken. Be-
fore the said City shall pass any ordinance under the above pro-
visions, at least sixty days' notice shall be given of any applica-
tion for the passage of such ordinance, in at least two daily
newspapers in said City; and before the Commissioners for
Opening Streets or any Commissioner or Commissioners ap-
pointed by any ordinance under the above provisions shall pro-
ceed to the performance of his or their duty, he or they shall
give notice in at least two of the daily newspapers in the City of
Baltimore, of the object of the ordinance under which he or
they propose to act, at least thirty days before the time of their
first meeting to execute the same.

Stocks, Loans and Finance.—To levy upon the assessable
property within the City, and collect by tax any sum which
may be necessary to pay and discharge the principal and inter-
est of any loan which may heretofore have been obtained, or