1836.

LAWS OF MARYLAND.

CHAP. 182.

Passed Mar. 14,
1837.

CHAPTER 182.

An act to widen a part of Wagon Alley,,in the City of
Baltimore.

Directions to
widen

SECTION 1. Be it enacted by the General Assembly
of Maryland, That the city commissioners of Balti-
more, be, and they are hereby authorised and required
to widen Wagon alley in said city, twenty feet on the
North side thereof, from Liberty street Westwardly,
to Howard street, and said alley when so widened,
shall be, and is hereby declared a public street and
highway, and the name of that part of said alley so
widened shall be changed to and hereafter called State
street, and shall be subject to the like rules and regu-
lations as other public streets in the city, the footways
of which shall be of such width as the city commis-
sioners shall fix and determine.

As certain da-
mages

SEC. 2. And be it enacted, That the Mayor of the
city of Baltimore, shall on or before the first day of
May next, appoint five disinterested freeholders, as-
sessors, who having first taken oath before some jus-
tice of the peace for the city of Baltimore, to decide
without favour, affection or partiality, shall proceed
forthwith to value and assess the damages which may be
sustained by the respective owners of the lots of ground

Property bene-

fitted

upon which the said street shall be so widened, and al-
so to designate the property to be benefittcd thereby,
taking into consideration all the advantages and dis-
advantages, which damages they shall apportion
amonst the owners of the property benefitted, and make

Make return

return of their proceedings, on or before the first day of
January next, including ail necessary and reasonable
costs and expenses incurred or to be incurred, in vir-
tue of this law, under their hands and seals to the Reg-
ister of the city of Baltimore, who shall file and keep
the same in his office.

The assessment
to be a lien

SEC. 3. And be it enacted, That the damages so valu-
ed and assessed from time to time, shall be a lien upon
the property so ascertained and determined to be bene-
fitted, until their respective proportions of said dama-
ges shall have been paid.

Compensation

SEC. 4. And be it enacted, That the assessors afore
said shall be entitled to and receive two dollars per da