194 LAWS OF MARYLAND.

Article 5 of Bagby's Annotated Code of the Public Civil Laws
of Maryland, title "Appeals and Errors," sub-title "Appeals
from Courts of Law," to be known as Section 22-A and to come
immediately after Section 22, and to read as follows:

SEC. 22-A. If it appears to the Court of Appeals that a
reversible error affects a several item or part only of the matters
in controversy, the Court may direct final judgment as to the
remaining parts or items thereof, and may direct a new trial
as to the said several part or item only.

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

Approved March 24th, 1914.

CHAPTER 150.

AN ACT to carry out the provisions of the amendment adding
Section 40-A to Article 3 of the Constitution.

SECTION 1. Be it enacted by the General Assembly of Mary-
land, That whenever the Mayor and City Council of Baltimore
shall hereafter provide by ordinance for the laying out, opening,
extending, widening or straightening of any street, square, lane
or alley, such ordinance may provide that the Commissioners for
Opening Streets shall proceed to acquire the property necessary,
in accordance with Section 172, and following, of the City Char-
ter, or said ordinance may provide that the property necessary
to be acquired for such laying out, opening, extending, widening
or straightening, may be acquired by proceedings in the Balti-
more City Court under Article 33-A of the Code of Public Gen-
eral Laws and that, after the damages to be awarded shall have
been ascertained by such proceedings, then the Commissioners
for Opening Streets shall proceed to assess the benefits for said
laying out, opening, extending, widening or straightening, in
the same manner as if the damages had been assessed by them
under Section 175 of the City Charter, and they shall state in
the report the amount of damages assessed by the proceedings
in Court to the various owners and the expenses of said Court
proceedings and their own proceedings. Before any such bene-
fits and damages are assessed there shall be filed with the Com-
missioners for Opening Streets a profile, map or plat showing
the grade of the proposed highway, with respect to the abutting
property, which map or plat shall be included by the Commis-
sioners in the return to their proceedings.