LEVIN WINDER, ESQ. GOVERNOR.

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and is hereby declared to be a public street and highway
forever thereafter, and the said commissioners are here-
by required to return a plot, ascertaining the limits and
extent of that part of the street so opened and extended,
to the register of the city of Baltimore, who shall re-
ceive ana file the same as part of the plot of said city.

Dec Sess.

1813.

2. AND BE IT ENACTED, That the sheriff of Balti-
more county, after having given at least ten days notice
in one of the newspapers in the city of Baltimore, shall
at any time before the twentieth day of July next, sum-
mon twelve freeholders, inhabitants of the said city or
precincts not interested in the premises, who being first
sworn, shall proceed to assess and value the damages
which may be sustained by any person or persons by
reason of opening and extending said street, (taking all
benefits and inconveniences into consideration,) and
shall also declare what sum of money each individual
benefitted thereby shall respectively contribute and pay
towards compensating the person or persons injured by
opening and extending said street; and the names of the
persons and the sums of money which they shall respec-
tively be obliged to pay, and the time within which it is
to be paid shall be returned under their hands and seals
to the, register aforesaid to be filed and kept in his office,
and the persons benefitted by the opening and extending
of said street and assessed as aforesaid, shall respective-
ly pay the sums of money so charged and assessed with
interest thereon from the time limited for the payment
thereof.

Damages.

3. AND BE IT ENACTED, That the sums of mo-
ney so assessed and charged to each individual benefitted
by opening and extending said street, shall be a lien up-
on and bind all the property so benefitted to the full
amount thereof.

Sums assess-
ed to be a lien
upon property
benefitted.

4. AND BE IT ENACTED, That the street afore-
said shall not be extended or opened through the proper-
ty of any individual injured thereby, until the damages
by him, her or them sustained and assessed as aforesaid
shall be first tendered, paid or secured to be paid to his,
her or their satisfaction, together with legal interest
thereon from the time at which payment is limitted to be
made.

Street shall
not be opened
until damages
are secured to
be paid.

CHAPTER 93.

An act for the relief of Jonathan Cox, of Allegany
county.
Section 1. BE IT ENACTED by the General Assem-
bly of Maryland, That the title of Jonathan Cox of Al-
legany county to a tract of land patented to him on the
thirty-first day of July eighteen hundred and six, called
in said patent "sheep fold" shall be as good and available
in law to all intents and purposes as if said tract of land
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Passed Jan.
3, 1814.

Title shall
be valid.