JAMES THOMAS, ESQUIRE, GOVERNOR.

1832.

taken or used, for the purpose of increasing the width of
any part of the said street, the assent of the owner shall
first be obtained, or provision made for paying, or secur-
ing to be paid to such owner, a just compensation for the
destruction, injury, removal, or use of his or her pro-
perty.

CHAP. 214.

Sec. 2. And be enacted, That the Mayor and City Coun-
cil of Baltimore aforesaid, shall provide for ascertaining
the amount of damages which shall be sustained by any
person or persons, by opening or widening the said street,
and for assessing such amount with the necessary expenses
incident to the ascertainment of damages, and opening
and widening said street, or any part of such damage and
expenses which they shall deem proper, on the persons
and property benefitted by opening or widening such street,

Authority to assess
damages and bene-

fits

and said assessment, when finally made, shall be a lien
upon such property and for collection of the same; the
said persons and property, and extent of damage and
benefit to be ascertained in such manner as the Mayor and
City Council aforesaid, shall by ordinance direct; and they

Lien.

shall also provide by ordinance for granting appeals to
Baltimore City Court, and securing a jury trial before such
court, to the owner or owners of any property which shall
be removed, taken, used, damaged or destroyed by reason
of opening or widening said street, who may deem him or
herself aggrieved or injured in the valuation thereof, and
also to every other person or corporation who may deem
him or herself aggrieved or injured by reason of the as-

Right of appeal.

sessment on them for the payment of damages consequent
upon the opening and widening said street; Provided, the
person or persons or corporation who may desire any such
appeal, shall, within a reasonable time, not less than thirty
days after public notice in all the daily newspapers of said
city, of the ascertainment and returns to the City Regis-
ter's office, the amount of damages and benefits, apply by
petition to the said court, for such appeal or jury trial; and
the said City Court shall be and is hereby empowered to
do all such acts in relation to the trial and decision of such
appeals, as the ordinances of the said Mayor and City
Council, passed in pursuance of this act, shall direct.

Public notice re-

quired

Sec. 3. And, be it enacted, That if it shall become ne-
cessary in widening the said street, to destroy or remove,
or take a part of any house or building, or lot of ground,
and the owner thereof shall claim to be compensated for

Case of part of lot

being required.

the whole of such house, or building, or lot of ground,
the Mayor and City Council aforesaid, shall provide for the

Proceedings di-

rected