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sioners for the same in writing, and within twenty days thereof
cause to be delivered to the clerk of the Circuit Court afore-
said, a copy of the said award filed with said commissioners
ratifying or rejecting the same, and all other papers relating
thereto; and the said corporation shall be liable for and tender
the damages thus assessed and determined to the persons en-
titled, or if rejected, to hold the same to his credit or for his use;
and the said commissioners shall have full power to assess and
levy, either generally on the whole assessable property of said
town, or specially on the property of persons so assessed to be
benefited thereby, the whole or any part of the amount of dam-
ages and expenses that they shall ascertain will be incurred in
locating, opening, extending, straightening or closing up the
whole or any part of any street, lane, road or alley, in said town,
and to collect the same in the manner hereinbefore provided for
the collection of the general tax levy; provided, however, that,
in opening or extending avenues, streets, roads and alleys, they
shall be made to conform in width and bearings and in all other
respects with those of the plat of the town of Ridgely, now upon
record in the office of the clerk of the Circuit Court for Caro-
line County; this proviso not to relate to the road extending
from the land of the P., B. & W. Railroad in a northerly direc-
tion and binding upon the lands of the Hoffman estate on the
west, and the lands of Mrs. Alfred Sigler, the High School
property and the lands of Charles L. Herzog on the east, which
road the' commissioners of Ridgely shall have the power, and
are hereby expressly authorized and empowered, to widen in
their discretion by acquiring adjoining lands by gift, purchase,
condemnation in accordance with Chapter 117, of the Acts of
the General Assembly of Maryland of 1912, or in any other
manner.

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

Approved April 13th, 1914.

CHAPTER 729.

AN ACT to repeal and re-enact with amendments Section 147 of
Article 23 of the Code of 1904 of Public General Laws of
Maryland, entitled ''Corporations," sub-title "Insurance
Companies," as amended and re-enacted by Chapter 410 of
the Acts of 1912 of the General Assembly of Maryland, author-