1204 LAWS OF MARYLAND.

Public Local Laws of Maryland, entitled "Allegany. County,"
sub-title "Cumberland," and from time to time to enact all
necessary ordinances in the exercise of the powers granted by
this Section ; provided that before said Mayor and City Council
of Cumberland shall proceed to execute any of the powers
vested in them by this Section, at least thirty days' notice shall
be given of any application which may be made, for the pas-
sage of any such ordinance by advertisement in at least two
newspapers printed in the City of Cumberland and by per-
sonal notice in writing served twenty days before upon each
property holder to be affected by the passage of the proposed
ordinance, giving notice of the time and place named for the
passage of said ordinance; provided said parties are residents
of Maryland.

SEC. 2. And be it further enacted, That for the purpose
of ascertaining any such damages, commissioners shall be ap-
pointed as provided by said Section 66 of said Public Local
Laws of Maryland, which proceedings of said commissioners
and all further proceedings therein, including an appeal from
their decision shall be had and conducted as provided by said
Sections 66 and 67 of said Public Local Laws of Maryland, en-
titled "Allegany County," and sub-title "City of

SEC. 3. And be it further enacted, Tkat any part or parts
of any existing Acts of Assembly constituting any part of the
Charter of the City of Cumberland, inconsistent or in conflict
with this Act, is or are hereby repealed.

SEC, 4. And be it enacted, That this Act shall take effect
from the data of its passage.

Approved April 10th, 1914,

CHAPTER 703.

AN ACT to appropriate the sum of $15,000 for the expenses and
use of the Board of Shellfish Commissioners of the State of
Maryland,

SECTION 1. Be it enacted by the General Assembly of Mary-
land, That the sum of $15,000, or so much thereof as may be
necessary, be, and the same is hereby appropriated, out of
any moneys in the Treasury not otherwise appropriated, to
defray the expenses, and for the use of the Board of Shellfish
Commissioners of the State of Maryland.