1838.

LAWS OF MARYLAND.

CHAP. 154

promoted by extending Maddison Street, and in part
changing its location: — Therefore,

Mayor and C. C.

authorised.

SECTION 1. Be it enacted by the General Assembly of
Maryland, That the Mayor and City Council of Bal-
timore, be, and they are hereby authorised and em-
powered to pass any ordinance or ordinances which
may be necessary to effect the extension and change of
location of Maddison Street, as prayed by said peti-
tioners, from Lanvale Street to the city limits.

Publication requir-

ed.

Sec. 2. And be it enacted, That the Mayor and City
Council, before they pass any ordinance as herein be-
fore provided, shall first cause an advertisement to be
published for one week, in two of the daily papers in
said city, whereby all parties interested shall be noti-
fied of the proposed extension and change of location
of Maddison Street, from Lanvale Street, to the city
limits, and shall be called upon to make their objec-
tions, if any they have, to the passage of the ordinances
herein before authorized.

Expenses.

Sec. 3. And be it enacted, That the expenses of the
said advertisement, and also those which may be in-
curred for the services of a surveyor, and of the regis-
ter of the city of Baltimore, in their proceedings under
the said ordinances, shall be defrayed by the parties
applying for the passage thereof.

CHAPTER 154.

Passed Mar. 6,

1839.

An act authorising a patent to issue to John Davis, for
a certain tract of land, in Allegany county.

Preamble.

WHEREAS, by an act passed at December session,
eighteen hundred and twenty-two, chapter one hun-
dred and twenty-eight, it was provided by the third
section thereof, that all certificates of surveys of lands
in Allegany county, after the passage of said act, and
returned to the Land Office of the Western Shore,
should be compounded on within twelve months from
the date of said certificate of survey, or become null
and void; and -whereas, it is represented that John Da-
vis hath returned to. the Land Office, a certificate for
a tract of land called Brothers, containing ninety-two
acres and three fourths of an acre, as assignee of one