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LAWS OF MARYLAND.

1812.

CHAPTER 186.

Passed Jan 7,
1812.

An act to extend M'Eldery street, in the Eastern

Precincts of Baltimore.

Commissioners
appointed.
They shall re-
turn a plot to
the county
court.

BE IT ENACTED by the General Assembly of
Maryland, That Thomas M'Eldery, Hezekiah
Price, James C. Deu, John Hillin and William Pe-
chin, be, and they are hereby appointed commission-
ers, and they, or a majority of them are hereby author-
ised and empowered, at the expense of the petitioners,
or any person ar persons who may think proper to
contribute thereto, to extend, clear out and open
M'Eldery street, until it intersects Green street; and
the said commissioners arc hereby required to make a
plot of said street, as directed to be opened and ex-
tended, and return the same to the clerk of Baltimore
county court, to be recorded among the land records
of said county; and the said street, when opened and
extended as aforesaid, and the valuation hereinafter to
be made, shall be paid or secured to be paid to the
person or persons injured by extending said street,
shall forever thereafter be deemed a public street, and
be kept in repair as other streets in said precincts are
kept in repair.

Commissioners
shall value dam-
ages. Persons
aggrieved may
apply to a jus-
tice of the
peace — he shall
issue a warrant
for the summon
of a jury of free-
holders — their
duties.

2 AND BE IT ENACTED, That the commis-
sioners aforesaid, or a majority of them, shall ascer-
tain and value, if required, what damages may be sus-
tained by any person or persons through whose pro-
perty the said street may pass by opening the same,
and the valuation shall be made before the said com-
missioners shall proceed to open said street; Provided
always. That if any person or persons through whose
property the said street may pass, or his, her or their
guardian or trustee, shall conceive himself, herself or
themselves aggrieved by such valuation and assess-
ment of damages by the said commissioners, it shall
and may be lawful for any justice of the peace of said
county, on application of the party interested, or his.
her or their guardian or trustee, to issue his warrant
under his hand and seal, directed to the sheriff of the
county, commanding him to summon twelve freehold-
ers, disinterested. in the opening of the said street, to
appear on a day by the said justice to be appointed, on
the properly of the person or persons making applica-
tion as aforesaid, for whose benefit such application
shall be made; and the said freeholders having first
made oath before said justice of the peace, that they
will without favor, affection or partiality, assess the