JAMES THOMAS, ESQUIRE, GOVERNOR.

1832.

decribed in the preceding section, the commissioners shall
offerthe same at public auction, after reasonable notice, and
sell the same, for cash, to the highest bidder, or highest
bidders; and on being paid therefor, shall convey the same
by deed or deeds, in fee simple, to the purchaser or pur-

CHAP. 268.

Public sale thereof

chasers; and after such sale, whether made under this or the
preceding section, that portion of the old Ferry Road shall
cease to be a public highway, but shall ever after remain
private property.

Made private pro-
perty.

Sec. 6. And be it encated, That the proceeds of the pro-
perty hereinbefore provided to be sold, shall be applied to-
wards the payment of the property required to be taken for
the proposed extension of Light street; and the balance of
money required to pay for the same, as also all expenses
incurred in the execution of this act, shall be assessed on
the property benefitted, or likely to be bentfitted, by the ex-
tension aforesaid.

Applicatoin of

proceeds

Sec. 7. And be it enacted, That the commissioners shall
return a plat of the extension of Light street, as by this act
is provided, with a particular statement of the property as-
sessed as benefitted, with the names of the reputed owners,
and of the value of the property taken for the street; the
property disposed of as aforesaid, and every matter con-
nected with their commission, as soon as completed, under
their hands and seals, to the register of the city of Balti-
more, to be filed in his office.

Return of plat-

statements-valua-

tion

Sec. 8. And be it enacted. That the commissioners shall
receive, each three dollars, for every day they shall be so
employed; and their surveyor and clerk, such reasonable

Compensation to

commissioners

compensation as they may fix; and the collector shall re-
ceive three per centum on his collection; but persons as-
sessed as benefitted, on paying their assessments to the

To collectors.

register of the city, within thirty days after the advertise-
ment of the return of the commissioners, shall receive a
deduction of the collectors commissions.

Discount for
prompt pay.

Sec. 9. And be it enacted, That it shall be the duty of the
Register to advertise in all the daily newspapers of the city

Publications pre-

scribed

of Baltimore, notice of the return of the commissioners,
and that the assessments are to be paid into his office

30 days notice.

within thirty days thereafter, and at the expiration of the
thirty days, he shall report to the collector the property and
persons so assessed, who have neglected to make payment,
and the persons whose property has been taken for the

Register to report.

street, shall be entitled to demand and receive, from the
Mayor and City Council of Baltimore, the sums awarded in

Entitled to claim.