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LAWS OF MARYLAND, NOV. SESS, 1812.

1812.

place, shall be deemed and taken, and is hereby de-

clared to be a public street and highway for ever there-
after; and the said commissioners are hereby required
to return a plot, ascertaining the limits and extent of
the said street when so extended and opened, to the
register of the city of Baltimore, who shall receive
and file the same as part of the plot of the city of
Baltimore.

Sheriff may
summon dis-
interested per-
sons to assess
damages — by
whom to be
paid.

2. AND BE IT ENACTED, That the sheriff of
Baltimore county, after having given at least ten days
notice in one of the news papers of the city of Balti-
more, shall at any time before the first Monday of
May next, summon twelve freeholders, inhabitants of
the said city, not interested in the premises, who be-
ing first sworn to assess and value what damages
shall be sustained by any person or persons whom-
soever, by reason of the opening and extending the
aforesaid street, taking all benefits and inconvenien-
ces into consideration, shall proceed to assess and
value what damages may be sustained by any person
or persons whomsoever, by opening and extending
the said street, and shall also declare what sum of mo-
ney such individual benefited thereby, shall respect-
ively 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 respect-
ively 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 of said street, 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.

Money as-
sessed shall be
a lien upon
property ben-
efited.

3. AND BE IT ENACTED, That the. sums of
money assessed and charged to each individual ben-
efited by extending and opening the aforesaid street,
shall be a lien upon and bind all the property so ben-
efited thereby to the full amount thereof.

Damages not
being paid
within six
months suits
of recovery
may be insti-
tuted— this
act, &c. shall
be evidence.

4. AND BE IT ENACTED, That in case the
person or persons injured by opening and extending
the said street, shall not be paid the damages by them
respectively sustained and assessed as aforesaid, with-
in six months after the same shall be ascertained as
aforesaid, he, she or they shall and may institute suits
in 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