142 LAWS OF MARYLAND. [CH. 109

CHAPTER 109.

AN ACT to authorize and empower the Mayor and Council-
men of Frostburg to close Oak Street in the City of Frost-
burg from its intersection with the alley in the rear of
Maple Street, said alley being on the westerly side of the
Frostburg State Normal School No. 2 in said City, to the
intersection of said Oak Street with the alley on the rear of
Centre Street, said alley being located on the easterly side
of said school, and to empower commissioners to be ap-
pointed by the said Mayor and Councilmen to award com-
pensation to any person or persons owning property on
said Oak Street which may be closed who may be affected
thereby.

SECTION 1. Be it enacted by the General Assembly of
Maryland, That the Mayor and Councilmen of Frostburg be
and they are hereby authorized and empowered to close Oak
Street in the City of Frostburg from its intersection with the
alley in the rear of Maple Street, said alley being on the
westerly side of the Frostburg State Normal School No. 2 in
said City, to the intersection of said Oak Street with the alley
on the rear of Centre Street, said alley being located on the
easterly side of said school. And the Mayor and Councilmen
of Frostburg may provide for ascertaining whether any and
what amount in value of damages will be caused thereby to
the owner or possessor of any property lying on or through
which said Oak Street may pass which ought to be compen-
sated, by the appointment of commissioners to assess the same
and for assessing and levying, either generally on the whole
assessable property within the City or especially on the prop-
erty benefited, including State Normal School No. 2 prop-
erty now owned by the State of Maryland, the whole or
any part of the damages and expenses which will be in-
curred in closing said part of said Street. The Mayor and
Councilmen shall grant appeals to the Circuit Court for
Allegany County from the decision of any commissioners or
other persons appointed by virtue of any ordinances to as-
certain the damage occasioned by the closing of said part of
said Street and for securing to the person injured the right,
on application within thirty (30) days from the return of
the report of the commissioners, to have decided by jury trial
whether any, and what damage he has sustained; to provide
for collecting and paying the compensation awarded to any