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and benefit which will accrue to persons owning pro-
perty which they shall consider as acquiring addi-
tional value in consequence of opening and extend-
ing said street; and they shall determine what sum
each lot or parcel of property shall contribute toward
the payment of the sum ascertained as aforesaid; levy-
ing such contribution on each, as in their judgment
shall be proportionate to the advantage resulting to it,
designating the several lots and parcels of property,
and the owners thereof, where such owners shall be
known to them; which said ascertainment of damage
and valuation of contribution shall, when made by,
and agreed upon by said assessors or a majority of
them, be binding and final in all cases: Provided, That
the said assessors shall, in levying said contribution,
be confined within the following limits and bounds, to
wit: bounded on the west by a line drawn north and
south through the Point, on the Baltimore and Frede-
rick town turnpike road, at which Baltimore street
and Pratt street extended unite; on the north by a
line drawn four hundred feet north of Pratt street and
parallel thereto; on the east by a line drawn north
and south through the mouth of Harris' creek, and on
the south by a line drawn two miles south of Pratt
street, and parallel thereto.
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8. AND BE IT ENACTED, That the said asses-
sors be, and they are hereby required to make out a
full and fair statement of their proceedings under this
act, shewing the name of each person whose property
is injured as aforesaid, designating the property; and
also, a list of the property and the names of the pro-
prietors where known benefited as aforesaid, and
how much is to be by him, her or them paid for the
said benefit; and the statement, under their hands and
seals, to return to the office of the clerk of Baltimore
county; and they are also required to return a dupli-
cate of such statement to the office of the register of
the city of Baltimore, to be by him preserved and kept
in the same manner that the public records of the city
are; and the said assessors are hereby empowered
and required to appoint some discreet person as clerk,
whose duty it shall be to record the proceedings of
said assessors in a well bound book; and when the
said assessors shall have completed the object of their
appointment, shall return the said book to the register
of the said city of Baltimore, there to be kept and pre-
served as part of the records of the said city; and the
said clerk shall receive as a compensation for his ser-
vices, the sum of two dollars for each and every day
he shall be so employed.
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Assessors shall
make out a fair
statement of
proceedings,
and a list of pro-
perty benefited,
with the names
of the owners
and the respec-
tive portions
which they shall
pay, to be re-
turned to the
county court of-
fice, and a du-
plicate to the
register of the
city They
may appoint a
clerk— his du-
ties and com-
pensation.
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