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insuring the protection or usefulness of such esplanade, boule-
vard, park-way, park grounds or public reservations, or in any
manner to better accomplish the purposes and serve the public
interests for which they shall have been or shall be established.
The Mayor and City Council of Baltimore may prescribe the
procedure for condemnation of any land or property situated
wholly within the city of Baltimore, which under the foregoing
provisions it is authorized to condemn, but such procedure as
the said Mayor and City Council of Baltimore may adopt shall
include provision for reasonable notice to the owner or owners,
and for appeals to the Baltimore City Court by any person in-
terested, including the Mayor and City Council of Baltimore,
from the decision of any commissioners or other persons ap-
pointed to value any such land or property, or interest therein.
Nothing herein contained shall be construed as depriving the
city of any power of condemnation for any purpose already
vested in it. The Mayor and City Council of Baltimore shall
have full power and authority to provide by ordinance for as-
certaining whether any and what amount of benefits will accrue
to the owner or possessor of any ground or improvements with-
in the city of Baltimore by reason of the establishment or en-
largement of any parks, squares, gardens, esplanades, boulevards,
parkways, park grounds, public reservations or other public
places, for which said owner or possessor ought to pay com-
pensation, and to provide by ordinance for assessing or levying
the amount of such benefits on the property of persons so bene-
fited; provided, that provision is made therein for reasonable
notice to the person or persons against whom such benefits are
to be assessed, and provided that provision be made for appeals
to the Baltimore City Court by any person or persons in-
terested, including the Mayor and City Council of Baltimore,
from the decision of any board, commissioners or other persons
appointed or authorized to assess such benefits.

SEC. 2. And be it further enacted, That this Act shall take
effect from the date of its passage.

Approved March 30, 1908.

CHAPTER 148.

AN ACT to repeal and re-enact with amendments the para-
graph entitled "Harbor, Docks and Wharves," of section 6
of article 4 entitled "City of Baltimore," of the Code of Pub-
lic Local Laws of Maryland.

SECTION 1. Be it enacted by the General Assembly of Mary-
land, That the paragraph entitled "Harbor, Docks and