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821. Before the Mayor and City Council of Baltimore shall
pass any ordinance under this Article relating to the con-
structing, opening, enlarging or straightening any sewer
through any street, lane or alley, or through any private prop-
erty, notice shall be given of an application for the passage of
such an ordinance in at least two of the daily newspapers of
said City, twice a week for sixty days.

822. Before any Commissioners appointed by any ordinance
of said corporation under the preceding sections hereof shall
proceed to the performance of their duty, they shall give daily
notice, in at least two newspapers in the City of Baltimore, of
the object of the ordinance under which they, propose to act,
at least thirty days before the time of the first meeting to exe-
cute the same.

823. Should the Commissioners appointed by the Mayor
and City Council of Baltimore assess any part of the expense
and damage incurred in the construction, opening, enlarging or
straightening any sewer in the City, upon the Mayor and City
Council of Baltimore, the said Mayor and City Council of
Baltimore may levy a tax on the assessable property of the City
for the amount of such assessment, or they may raise the neces-
sary amount by a loan, for the payment of which they may
create a sinking fund to meet the liabilities incurred; and may
also levy on the assessable property of the City of Baltimore
from time to time such sums as may be necessary to provide
therefor, and for the principal and interest of the liabilities in-
curred, and may pass all ordinances necessary to carry out the
provisions of the same.

824. The Mayor and City Council of Baltimore are author-
ized to issue the stock of the City of Baltimore for the amount
of five millions of dollars; said stock to be issued from time to
time as the Mayor and City Council of Baltimore shall by ordi-
nance prescribe; the proceeds of said stock to be used for the
opening, widening, repaving and paving of streets, the con-
structing of sewers, the supplying of school buildings in the