LLOYD LOWNDES, ESQUIRE, GOVERNOR. 261

square, lane or alley in Baltimore City. To provide by ordi-
nance for the collection of rent or revenue, which may or can
be derived or collected from the occupiers, tenants, or by
whatever term they may be called, for the use and occupa-
tion by them, of all building- or buildings, or other property
which the City pays for, to the owners thereof, in all cases of
street openings, straightenings, closings or widenings, or in any
case of condemnation for any purpose whatever, "said rent to be
paid by said tenants or occupiers of said building or buildings,
or other property, to the City authorities, from the date of pay- '
ment for the same by the City to the owners thereof, or from
the date of the tender of such payment, if for any cause said
owners refuse or cannot lawfully accept the same, until said
building or buildings are removed, and until said property shall
be required by the City for its purposes, under the condemna-
tion proceedings. To provide by general or special ordinance
for the establishment, and change from time to time, of the
grade lines of any street, lane or alley, or part thereof, now or
hereafter marked, located or laid out upon the plan of said City.
To provide by ordinance for grading, shelling, graveling, pav-
ing and curbing, or for the regrading, reshelling, regraveling,
repaving and recurbing of any street, lane or alley in said City,
or part thereof, now condemned, ceded, opened; as a public
highway, or which may hereafter be condemned, ceded,
opened, widened, straightened or altered according to the laws
and ordinances regulating the same; and also for assessing the
cost of any such work, in whole or in part, upon the property
binding upon such street, lane or alley, or part thereof, accord-
ing to such rule or basis as it may determine, and for collecting
said assessments as other City taxes are collected or in such
manner as it may prescribe, either before or after the work
shall have been done, provided that before the passage by
either Branch of the City Council of any ordinance requir-
ing the whole or any portion of the costs to be assessed
upon the property ten days' notice shall be given in at
least two of the daily newspapers in said City, and an oppor-
tunity shall be afforded to all persons interested therein to ap-
pear and be heard before some appropriate committee of the
Council, and it may also provide for appeals to the Baltimore
City Court from the decisions of the Commissioners for Open-