1844.

THOMAS G. PRATT, ESQUIRE, GOVERNOR,

CHAP. 288

hereby authorised and empowered to open said street of
the width of fifty feet, commencing at the end of a street
laid out by M. C. Sprigg, on the Bedford road, and run-
ning thence to a point near the head of Frederick street in
said town, and thence to a point on the Baltimore turn-
pike road near the northern end of Thomas J. McKaig's
home lot; and the said street when opened, and the valua-
tion and assessment hereinafter directed to be made shall
have taken place, shall be deemed and considered, and is
hereby declared a public street and highway, forever
thereafter; and the said commissioners or a majority of
them are hereby directed to return a plat ascertaining the
limits and extent of said street so opened, to the clerk of
Allegany county court, who shall receive and record the
same in his office.

Commission-
ers to give ten
days notice in
newspaper.

SEC. 2. And be it enacted, That the said commission-
ers, or a majority of them, shall give ten days notice in one
or more newspapers printed in the town of Cumberland,
of their appointment, as also of the time and place of
meeting, which shall be on the premises, and shall then
and there proceed to the duties hereinafter enjoined; but
before they proceed they shall take an oath or affirmation,
as the case may be, that they will faithfully and imparti-
ally assess and value what damages will be sustained by
opening the said street, taking into consideration all advan-
tages and disadvantages; they shall then proceed to assess
and value what damages will be sustained by any person
or persons whomsoever, by opening said street, and shall
also declare what sum of money each individual benefitted
thereby shall pay towards compensating the person or per-
sons injured by opening said street, and the names of the
person or persons, and the sums of money which they
shall respectively be obliged to pay, shall be returned,
under their hands and seals, to the clerk aforesaid, to be
filed and kept in his office; and the person or persons
benefitted by opening of said street, and assessed as afore-
said, shall respectively pay the sum or sums of money with

Lien for full
amount.

which they may respectively be so charged and assessed.
SEC. 8. And be it enacted, That the sums of money so
assessed and charged to each individual benefitted by
opening the said street, shall be a lien upon all the pro-

To be collec-
ted by Bailiff.

perty so benefitted to the full amount thereof.
SEC. 4. And be it enacted, That the said several sums
of money so assessed and charged, shall be collected by
the bailiff of the town of Cumberland, and shall immedi-
ately be paid over by him to the mayor and councilmen
of the town of Cumberland, and by them to the person or
persons entitled to receive the same; and it shall be the