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and bearing interest at the rate of not more than five per cent,
per annum, payable quarterly; and to pass an ordinance pro-
viding for such transfer of said stock, and for the issue and
delivery to the said Peabody Institute, in consideration of such
transfer and surrender of stock or certificates of indebtedness
of the Mayor and City Council of Baltimore, to the amount of
not over five hundred thousand dollars, as authorized above,
bearing interest at not more than five per cent, per annum,
payable quarterly.

SEWERS.

817. If any person shall wilfully stop up, obstruct, injure
or damage the passage of the waters of any of the common or
private sewers or drains, he shall be fined a sum not exceeding
one hundred dollars, to be collected as other fines are collected.

818. The Mayor and City Council of Baltimore shall have
full power to provide for constructing, opening, enlarging or
straightening, subject to the provisions hereinbefore contained
as to the Board of Public Improvements and the Board of Esti-
mates, any sewer or drain, public or private, through any pri-
vate property, upon giving thirty days' notice in writing to the
owner or agent of said private property, or to one of them, if
more than one, leaving such notice at the usual place of abode
of such owner or agent, of at the usual place of abode of one of
them, if more than one, or if none of said parties live in the City
of Baltimore, by setting up said notice on the land or premises,
to provide for ascertaining what amount of actual benefit will
thereby accrue to the owner or possessor of any ground or im-
provements within or adjoining the City, being governed as
far as practicable by the number of superficial feet drained, and
to provide for assessing and levying, either generally on the
whole assessable property of the said City, or by a loan for the
special purpose for constructing, opening, enlarging or straight-
ening any sewer, the sum necessary to pay the expense or cost,
or specially on the property of persons actually benefited, the
whole or any part of the damages and expenses which they