1126 LAWS OF MARYLAND. [CH. 443

municipality. Thereupon by resolution, the Board of Alder-
men may approve and adopt or may reject such plat or may
modify it. In the resolution of adoption of a plat the Board
of Aldermen shall fix the period of time for which the street
locations shown upon the plat shall be deemed reserved for
future taking or acquisition for public use. Upon such adop-
tion the Board of Aldermen shall transmit one attested copy
of the plat to the Clerk of the Circuit Court for Frederick
County and retain one copy for the purpose of public examina-
tion and hearings of claims for compensation. Such approval
and adoption of a plat shall not, however, be deemed the open-
ing or establishment of any street, nor the taking of any land
for street purposes, nor for public use, nor as a public improve-
ment, but solely as a reservation of the street locations shown
thereon, for the period specified in the Board of Aldermen re-
solution, for future taking or acquisition for public use. The
commission may, at any time, negotiate for or secure from the
owner or owners of any such lands releases of claims for dam-
ages or compensation for such reservations or agreements in-
demnifying the municipality from such claims by others, which
releases or agreements shall be binding upon the owner or
owners executing the same and their successors in title. At
any time after the filing of a plat with the county recorder, and
during the period specified for the reservation, the planning
commission and the owner of any land containing a reserved
street location may agree upon a modification of the location
of the lines of the proposed street, such agreement to include
a release by said owner of any claim for compensation or dam-
ages by reason of such modification; and thereupon the com-
mission may make a plat corresponding to the said modifica-
tion and transmit same to the Board of Aldermen; and if such
modified plat be approved by the Board of Aldermen, they shall
transmit an attested copy thereof to the said county recorder,
and said modified plat shall take the place of the original plat.
At any time the Board of Aldermen may, by resolution, aban-
don any reservation and shall certify any such abandonment to
the said Clerk of the Court for Frederick County.

SEC. 19. Be it enacted, That in the resolution of adop-
tion of a plat the Board of Aldermen shall appoint a board
of three appraisers and shall fix the time and place of meet-
ings for hearings by said board upon the amounts of compen-
sation to be paid for such reservations. Thereupon the Board
of Aldermen shall publish in at least two newspapers of gen-