1044 LAWS OF MARYLAND.

payment from the general funds of the City of the expense
of compiling and printing such Code, which when adopted shall
be proof of the law and ordinances of Salisbury therein con-
tained.

And the Clerk of Salisbury shall deliver to the Public Justice
a certified copy of all ordinances for the violation of which the
said Police Justice may impose a fine or imprisonment, or both,
or other punishment. And the said Police Justice shall take
judicial notice of all ordinances, so certified to him, and of the
due passage thereof.

158-R. And be it enacted, That in addition to the power to
purchase property the Mayor and Council of Salisbury shall
have power to condemn any property, right or interest, belong-
ing to any person, persons, corporation or corporations (whether
such corporation be public or private, and whether such prop-
erty, right or interest be impressed with a prior public or
quasi-public use or not), for the purpose of making any public
improvement.

The manner of procedure in case of any condemnation pro-
ceeding shall be as follows:

(1) The Council may, upon its own motion, or at the sug-
gestion of the Mayor, or at the instance of any citizen or citizen-
of Salisbury, if he sees fit so to do, by order, motion, resolution,
or ordinance determine to undertake any improvement which
it is authorized to make, and shall thereupon direct the City
Engineer, or some other competent person, to prepare a map
or plat of the proposed improvement. The validity of the pro-
ceedings shall in no measure depend upon the taking of this
preliminary step, it being intended merely as a means of plac-
ing before the Council accurate information as to the work
to be done.

(2) The Mayor and Council shall pass an ordinance as other
ordinances are passed, directing that the proposed improve-
ment be made and specifying the course and location of the
proposed improvement and describing the property to be taken
with sufficient certainty to enable a surveyor to lay the same
out, and directing the Mayor to appoint a commission to esti-
mate damages and benefits, and to obtain such other informa-
tion specified in said ordinance as the Council may desire.

(3) The Mayor shall appoint three disinterested persons,
residents of Salisbury, to estimate damages and benefits, which
appointments shall be ratified by the Council.