1828.

LAWS OF MARYLAND.

CHAP. 98.

county within this state, under the acts relative to the ap-
prehension and commitment of runaways, if the said ne-
gro or mulatto shall ultimately be discharged agreeably to
the requisition of the sixth section of the act of eigh-
teen hundred and seventeen, chapter one hundred and
twelve, the expenses of keeping said runaway in con-
finement shall be ascertained by the levy court, or the
commissioners of the county in which such negro or mulat-
to may be committed, as the case may be, or by the mayor

ty, and shall be certified by said levy court, commissioners,
or mayor and city council, as the case may be, to the trea-
surer of the western shore, who shall, upon the production
of such certificate, pay the amount so certified to the per-
son or persons entitled to the same, or their order.

CHAP. XCIX.

Passed Mar. 3, 1829

An Act for the benefit of certain Proprietors M Lots in
the City of Baltimore.

John Tessier, and
others, to be allow-
ed damage., &c

Sec. 1. Be it enacted by the General Assembly of Ma-
ryland, That John Tessier, and the other proprietors of
the ground whereon Eutaw-street is located, between Ross-
streetand Monument-street, and also of the ground whereon
Monument-street is located, between Eutaw-street and Ross-
street, shall, (whenever said streets shall be hereafter open-
ed within the limits herein before respectively described,)
be allowed damages for such improvements as may be made
and erected on said ground by the respective proprietors
thereef, any thing in the act of assembly passed at Decem-
ber session eighteen hundred and seventeen, chapter one
hundred and forty-eight, or in any other act of assembly, to

Provisos

the contrary notwithstanding; Provided, said improvements
shall be commenced before the first day of March eighteen
hundred and thirty; And provided also, that no owner or
owners of any of said lots shall be allowed any damages for
improvements thus to be made or erected, after the first day
of March eighteen hundred and thirty, unless before com-
mencing said improvements the said owner or owners shall
have given notice, once a week for four successive weeks,
in at least two of the daily newspapers of the city of Bal-
timore, setting forth, that under and by virtue of this act,
the said owner or owners would proceed to make improve-
ments on said owner or owners part of the aforesaid con-
demned property, (designating the same) six months after
the first appearance of said owner or owners notice in the
two newspapers aforesaid, in case the said street or high-
way, or so much thereof as fronted the property of the per-
son or persons signing said notice, should not be opened in
the manner prescribed by the act of December session eigh-