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LAWS OF MARYLAND Nov. SESS. 1812.

1812.

opening and extending the said streets and road; 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 register aforesaid, of the said city, to be filed and
kept in his office; and the person or persons benefited
by the opening and extending of the said streets and
the road, and assessed as aforesaid, shall respectively
pay the sum or sums of money so charged and assessed,
to him or them, with interest thereon, at the rate of
six per centum from the time limited, for the payment
thereof.

Lien.

3. AND BE IT ENACTED, That the sums of
money assessed and charged to each individual ben-
fited by extending and opening the aforesaid streets
and road, shall be a lien upon and bind all the pro-
perty so benefited thereby, to the full extent thereof.

Damages —
persons not
paid may in-
stitute suits.

4. AND BE IT ENACTED, That in case the
person or persons injured by opening and extending
the said streets and road, shall not be paid the dama-
ges by them respectively sustained and assessed as
aforesaid, within six months after the same shall be
ascertained as aforesaid, he, she or they shall and may
institute a suit or suits in the Baltimore county court,
for the recovery thereof, in which it shall be sufficient
to declare for money had and received, and this act,
and the proceedings under the same, shall be evidence
to support such action or actions instituted as afore-
said.

Damages —
they must be
secured to be
paid before the
streets or road
are opened.

5. AND BE IT ENACTED, That the streets
and road aforesaid, shall not be extended or opened
through the property of any individual injured there-
by, until the damages by them sustained and assessed
as aforesaid, shall be first tendered, paid or secured
to be paid to their satisfaction, together with legal
interest thereon, from the time of ascertaining the
damages by them respectively sustained.

Buildings or
fences shall
not be erected
within the lim-
its of said
streets or road.

6. AND BE IT ENACTED, That the said com-
missioners, or a majority of them, shall within forty
days after the passing of this act, give notice in two
of the news-papers of the city of Baltimore, warning
all manner of persons from putting up or erecting any
building, fence or incumbrance of any kind within
the limits of the said streets or road, which shall be
staked off by the said commissioners, or a majority
of them.

Public pro-
perty shall be
sold — pro-
ceeds.

7. AND BE IT ENACTED, That that part of
the present road to the ferry as aforesaid, as may be
public property, and which may not be included, in