A. W. BRADFORD, ESQUIRE, GOVERNOR. 277

CHAPTER 188.
AN ACT to .provide for paying the costs and ex- penses Degrading North Avenue, from Pennsyl- vania Avenue to the Northern Central Railway, in the city of Baltimore, by the Mayor and City Council- of said city.	Passed Feb. 19, 1864.
WHEREAS, under an act of the General Assem- bly of Maryland, passed March eighth, eighteen hundred and fifty-six, chapter one hundred and sixty-four, the Mayor and City Council of Balti- more were authorized, upon certain condition therein stated, to have the North avenue, from Pennsylvania avenue to the Falls turnpike road, graded or paved, or both graded and paved; and whereas, the City Commissioner, for and on behalf of the Mayor and City Council of Baltimore, did, on the fourth day of August, eighteen hundred and fifty-six, contract for the grading of said ave- nue, from the east side of Pennsylvania avenue, to the west side of the Northern Central Railway ; and whereas, although the work has been com- pleted, the claim of the contractor and his asso- ciates in said work remains unpaid, by reason of the omissions of said Commissioner and of the Mayor and City Council; and whereas, the work has been accepted by the city, and the acts of said Commissioner have been confirmed and ratified by ordinance of said Mayor and City Council, ap- proved December ninth, eighteen hundred and fifty-eight.	Preamble.
SECTION. 1 Now therefore be it enacted by the General Assembly of Maryland, That the Mayor and City Council of Baltimore be and they are hereby authorized, empowered and directed to pay John Ahern, and the other persons entitled to re- ceive the same, the money still due and owing for the grading of North avenue, from Pennsylvania avenue to the Northern Central Railway, in said city, as ascertained by the contract heretofore en- tered into between William Slater and Joseph P. Shannon, City Commissioner, for and on behalf of the Mayor and City Council of Baltimore, dated	Required to pay.