HARRY W. NICE, GOVERNOR. 777

SECTION 1. Be it enacted by the General Assembly of
Maryland, That Article One of the Code of the Public
Local Laws of Maryland, title "Allegany County, " sub-
title "Frostburg, " as enacted by Chapter 14 of the Acts
of 1922, be and. the same is hereby amended by adding a
new section thereto to immediately follow Section 249 and
to be designated 249-A, and to read as follows:

Section 249-A: That the Mayor and Councilmen of
Frostburg be and they are hereby authorized and empow-
ered to close an alley lying West of the present build-
ing known as the Frostburg State Normal School Number
Two (2) and running parallel to Park Avenue from Maple
Street to the alley in back of Centre Street and also to
close an alley running from Oak Street to Park Avenue
parallel to Maple Street and South of Maple Street in the
City of Frostburg.

And the Mayor and Councilmen of Frostburg may pro-
vide 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 compensated, 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
property benefited, including State Normal School Number
Two (2) property now owned by the State of Maryland,
the whole or any part of the damages and expenses which
will be incurred in closing said alleys. 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
ascertain the damage occasioned by the cosing of said al-
leys 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 award-
ed to any person before said alleys shall be closed, and
to enact all ordinances from time to time necessary and
proper to the exercise of the powers granted in this Act;
provided that before the Mayor and Councilmen proceed
to execute any of the powers vested in them by this Act,
at least thirty (30) days notice shall be given of any ap-
plication which may be made to them for the passage of
any such ordinance by such means as they shall prescribe
and by personal notice in writing served twenty (20) days