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LAWS OF MARYLAND, Nov. SESS. 1812.

1812.

Passed Jan.
1, 1813.
Preamble.

CHAPTER 185.
An act for the relief of William, Smith, and others
of the city of Baltimore.
WHEREAS, It is represented to this General
Assembly, by the petitions of the said William
Smith, John Baptiste, Michael Whelan, (guardian for
J. Jones' orphan children, ) John H. Thompson and
John Guiray, that by an act of Assembly passed at
November session eighteen hundred and nine, a part
of their ground binding upon the west side of Ar-
gyle-ailcy, as located and established by the com-
missioners under the act of November session seven-
teen hundred and eighty four, and contained within
the following streets and alleys, that is to say,
Market street on the west, Wilk-street on the north9
Argyle alley on the east, and Fleet-street on the
south, has been condemned and appropriated to public
use as a public alley by the name of Argyle-alley,
and that the said petitioners have not been paid or in
any degree compensated for said property: And
whereas, It is but just and reasonable, that whenever
private property is taken for public use, the indi-
vidual, whose properly is so taken, should be fully
reimbursed any loss or injury he may thereby sus-
tain: Therefore,

Commission-
ers — their du-
ty.

SEC. 1. BE IT ENACTED by the General As-
sembly of Maryland, That James Cary, James
Biays, Job Smith, Esqr. (of Fell's Point, ) Samuel
Sterrett, Samuel Williams, David Williamson,
Robert Walsh, John Stricker, William Matthews,
Robert Stuart and Thomas Kell be, and they are
hereby appointed commissioners for the purposes
herein mentioned; and they shall determine whether
Argyle-alley, from Fleet-street to Wilk-street, as a
division between the proprietors of lots on the east,
and those on the west side of said alley, ought to be
mid-way, between market and Ann-streets, or
where it has been laid out in pursuance of an act
passed at November session eighteen hundred and
nine. And if said commissioners, (two thirds of
whom agreeing thereto, ) shall decide that Argyle
alley, as the true division between the lots aforesaid,
ought to be mid-way between Market and Ann-
streets, then said commissioners shall proceed to de-
termine by a majority of votes, the damages sustain-
ed by each proprietor of the lots on the west side of
Argyle-alley, by reason of said alley being placed as