JAMES THOMAS, ESQUIRE, GOVERNOR.

1832.

straightened; AND WHEREAS, the grounds thus liable to bo
taken and affected, cannot be improved except at the risk
of the improvements being removed without compensation
to the owner, and are rendered useless to the proprietor,
while on the other hand they are constantly subject to the
payment of undiminished taxes; AND WHEREAS, it is right
that the interests of individuals should be protected against
indefinite liabilities of this kind— Therefore,

CHAP. 208.

Section 1. Be it enacted by the General Assembly of
Maryland, That the.Mayor and City Council of Baltimore,
be, and is hereby authorized, to enact, from time to time,
ordinances in relation to particular Streets, Lanes, or Al-
leys, or to parts of particular Streets, Lanes, or Alleys, or
generally as to Streets, Lanes, or Alleys, .designated and
laid out as aforesaid, limiting, under such provisions as to
the Mayor and City Council of Baltimore shall seem just
and proper, a time within which such Streets, Lanes, or
Alleys, shall be opened, extended, straightened, or widen-
ed, and providing that if by such time such Streets, Lanes,

Corporation em-

powered to enact

ordinances in rela-

tion to opening
streets, &c

or Alleys, shall not respectively be opened, extended,
straightened, or widened, the owners of the ground to be
taken or affected by such opening, extending, straighten-
ing, or widening, may build upon, improve, and use, and
appropriate such ground to the same effect, and shall have
the same rights and claims for compensation, or otherwise,
for or in respect of such buildings, improvements, uses, or
appropriations, as if the same had been made before the

Relieve to closing

&c.

.

passing of the acts of Assembly before recited; Provided
however, that subject to said rights and claims, the said or-
dinances may provide for the opening, extending, straight-
ening, and widening, such Streets, Lanes, or Alleys, at any
time, either specific or generally, subsequent to the time
limited as aforesaid.

Proviso

CHAPTER 208.

An act respecting Appeals in cases of issues sent for trial
from Orphan's 'Court.

Passed Mar, 1833

Section 1. Belt enacted by the General Assembly of Ma-
ryland, That in all cases now pending or which may here-
after arise, where an issue or issues have been, or may be
sent by any Orphan's court for trial, in any county court of
this state, and where any of the parties interested in the

Case of trial.