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Mayor shall make a temporary appointment of a Commissioner
or Commissioners, to act in the place and stead of such inter-
ested Commissioner or Commissioners, who shall take the oath
or affirmation, as the case may be, and in all respects conduct
himself and have all the powers as the other Commissioners
who are appointed by the Mayor.

188. Whenever any lot, or part of a lot, or parcel of ground
may be taken and included within the lines of any street, lane or
alley, or part thereof, and damages assessed therefor, and there
shall be an outstanding unexpired term of years therein, the
said Commissioners shall discriminate in their proceedings
between the value of fee simple or ground rent interest, and the
leasehold interest.

, 189. Whenever any obstruction shall have remained in any
street, lane or alley, or part thereof so opened, for the space of
sixty days after the proceedings of the said Commissioners
shall have been returned to the City Register, it shall be the
duty of said Commissioners to cause the same to be removed,
and to draw on the Register for the expense so incurred, which
shall be paid by him, and the Mayor shall forthwith cause a
suit for the recovery of said expenses to be instituted against
the person or persons by whose default the said obstruction has
been suffered to remain, and the same, when recovered, shall
be paid to the Register for the use of the City.

190. In each case of laying out, opening, extending, widen-
ing, straightening or closing up, in whole or in part, any street,
square, lane or alley, under the provisions of this Article, the
said Commissioners shall, for each and every day in which they
and their Clerk shall be actually engaged in the performance
of their duties, assess, as part of the expenses of their proceed-
ings, a per diem as to each of said Commissioners and their
Clerk, of four dollars, to be collected as other expenses are, and
to be paid to the Register for the use of the City.

191. When the proceedings of the Commissioners for
Opening Streets in any case are transferred by the City Regis-
ter to the City Collector, the City Register is authorized and re-