1830.

LAWS OF MARYLAND.

CHAP. 56.

required to return a plot ascertaining the limits and extent of
said street, when opened and extended, 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; and in case the obstructions in said
street are not removed within thirty days after the money charg-
ed and assessed as herein after directed is paid, or tendered to
the proprietor, the city commissioners aforesaid are hereby au-
thorised and directed to remove the same without delay, and to
char/re the expenses of such removal in due proportions among
the several persons benefited by the opening and extending said
street, according to the benefit which they have been esti-
mated to have received agreeably to the assessment and valuation
herein after prescribed.

Freeholders to as-
sess damages.

2. And It it enacted, That the mayor of the city of Baltimore
be and he is hereby empowered to appoint five freeholders, inha-
bitants of the city, not interested in the premises, commissioners,
who after having given ten days notice in one or more of the
public papers of Baltimore, first being duly sworn, proceed to
assess and value what damages will be sustained by any person
or persons whomsoever, by reason of extending the aforesaid
street, taking all benefits and inconveniencies into consideration,
and shall also declare what sum of money each individual bene-
fited thereby shall respectively contribute and pay towards com-
pensating the person or persons injured by the opening and ex-
tending said street, and the names of the person or persons, and
the sums of money which they shall be respectively obliged to
pay, shall be returned, under the hands and seals of the commis-
sioners appointed as aforesaid, to the register of the city, to be
filed and kept in his office, and the person or persons benefited by
the opening and extending said street shall respectively pay the
sum or sums of money so assessed or charged to him, her or
them.

Damages to be
paid before street
is opened.

3. And be it enacted. That the said street shall not be opened
or extended through the property of any individual injured there-
by, until the damages by them sustained, and assessed as afore-
said, shall be first paid or secured to be paid to their entire satis-
faction.

Allowance to col-
lector.

4. And be it enacted, That three per cent commissions upon all
money which shall be collected under the assessment aforesaid,
shall be paid the city collector as a full compensation for his ser-
vices, in the performance of the duly imposed upon him in the
fourth section of the original law to which this is a supplement.

Part of act repeal-
ed.

5. And be it enacted, That all such parts of the original law
and the first supplement, as are inconsistent with the provisions
of this law, be and the same are hereby repealed.

Passed Jan. 15 1821.

Preamble.

CHAP. LVII.

An Act for the relief of Philo D. Forest, of the City of Baltimore.

WHEREAS it is alleged to this general assembly, by the pe-
tition of Philo D. Forest, that he is now in confinement in Bal-
timore county gaol for debts which he is unable to pay, and that
he is deprived of the right of resort to the insolvent laws of this
state by reason of his not having resided within the state of
Maryland for two years, according to the conditions of the said
laws, Therefore,