T. HOLLIDAY HICKS, ESQ., GOVERNOR.

1860.

county, and who shall have power to value and
assess the damages, if any, sustained by the owners
or owner of the land over which they may locate
said street, taking into consideration the advantage
as well as the disadvantages that may result to the
owner or owners of said land, and to cause the
same to be surveyed by the county surveyor of
Baltimore county, and a plat made thereof, to-
gether with the valuation of the damages, if any,
to the landholders as aforesaid, and the expense
attending the execution of the opening or extend-
ing the line of any street, to be returned to the
county commissioners of Baltimore county, and the
said damages and expenses attending thereen, shall
be levied and assessed upon the property through
which said street may be opened, and to be collected
as the taxes of said county ordinarily are, and any
persons considering themselves aggrieved by the
proceeding, and return made to the said commis-
sioners, may object to the ratification thereof before
the county commissioners of Baltimore county;
and when ratified and confirmed by the said county
commissioners of Baltimore county, and not until
then, it shall be filed and recorded among the pub-
lee records of Baltimore county.

CHAP. 286.

SEC. 3. And be it enacted, That after the survey
of the street or streets to be opened or extended,
are made and the damages have been assessed, the
plat or plats and other proceedings in relation to
the same, shall be laid before the county commis-
sioners of Baltimore county, within thirty days
after the completion of same, and the said county
commissioners of Baltimore county, shall not act
thereon without having given public notice by ad-
vertisement, at least once a week for three succes-
sive weeks in two newspapers, one published in
Baltimore county, and the other in the city of Bal-
timore, that said plats and proceedings had been
returned to the office of the said county commis-
sioners of Baltimore county, and would be acted on
by some certain day, to be named in said advertise-
ment.

Plats, &c.

SEC. 4. And be it enacted, That this act shall
take effect from the date of its passage.

In force.