ROBERT BOWIE, ESQ. GOVERNOR

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lively contribute and pay towards compensating the
person or persons injured by opening and extending
the said street and the names of the person or per-
sons, and the sums of money which they shall respec-
tively be obliged to pay, shall be returned, under
their. hands and seals, to the register aforesaid, of the
said city, to be filed and kept in his office; and the
person or persons benefitted by the opening of said
street, and assessed as aforesaid, shall respectively
pay the sum or sums of money so charged and assess-
ed to him or them, with interest thereon, at the rate
of six per centum, from the time limited for the
payment thereof.

1811.

AND BE IT ENACTED, That the sums of mo-
ney assessed and charged to each individual benefited
by extending and opening the aforesaid street, shall
be a lien upon, and bind ail the properly so benefitted
thereby, to the full amount thereof.

Money assessed
shall be a lien
upon property
benefitted.

AND BE IT ENACTED, That. the street afore-
said shall not be extended or opened through the pro-
perty of any individual injured thereby, until the dam-
age by them sustained, and assessed as aforesaid, shall
be first paid or secured to be paid to their satisfaction,
together with legal interest thereon, from the time
at which payment is limited to be made.

Street shall not
be extended
through the
property of any
person until da-
mages sustained
are secured to
be paid.

AND BE IT ENACTED, That in case the ob-
struction s in the said street are not removed within
twenty days after the money charged and assessed as
aforesaid is paid, or tendered, or secured to be paid as
aforesaid, the city commissioners aforesaid, are here-
by authorised and directed to remove the same with-
out delay, and to charge the expense of such removal
in equal proportion among the several persons benefit-
ed by the opening and extending the aforesaid street,
according to the benefit, which they may have been
estimated to have received agreeably to the assess-
ment and valuation aforesaid.

Relative to re-
moving obstruc-
tions in said
street.

CHAPTER 25.

An Act authorising the Levy Court of Baltimore
county, to assess and levy a sum of money for
the purpose therein mentioned.

Passed Dee. 27,
1811.

BE IT ENACTED by the General Assembly of
Maryland, That the levy court of Baltimore county
shall, and they are hereby authorised, immediately

Levy court to
assess $500.