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the said corporation, or any person or persons injured, or to be
injured by extending and charting out the said lots, and the
names of the person or persons so to contribute, and the sums
of money respectively which they shall pay, and when, and to
whom such payment shall respectively be made, shall be returned
by the said sheriff under the hands and seals of the said free hol-
ders to the Register of the said city, to be filed and kept in his
office; and the person or persons found as aforesaid to be so ben-
efitted shall respectively pay the several sums so assessed on him,
her or them, to the person or persons to whom such sums shall be
so directed to be paid, or to the said corporation with interest
from the time so fixed for payment, and in default of such pay-
ment, an action or actions may be had and maintained in Balti-
more county court by the parties so entitled respectively to pay-
ment, against the person or persons so respectively appointed to
pay for the recovery of all such sum or sums of money respec-
tively; which said jury shall be authorised and required to de-
termine whether the said corporation was not benefitted, and to
what amount, in the same manner us the said five persons might
have done, and that the said Mayor and city Council shall pay
the said sum to the said Christopher Hughes, his executors, ad-
ministrators or assigns in same manner as if the same had been
determined by the said arbitrators; Provided, that before the
sheriff aforesaid shall proceed to take the inquisition aforesaid,
he shall give notice ten days successively in two public news-
papers of the city of Baltimore, of the time and place of meet-
ing to take such inquisition.
4. AND BE IT ENACTED, That the sum or sums of
money so to be awarded against, or assessed on each individual
benefitted as aforesaid, shall be a lien on, and shall bind the pro-
perty so made by extending or wharfing out said lots, and that in
any action on such award or assessment, copies of the aforesaid
award, or of the sheriff's return of such inquisition as is afore-
said respectively certified by the Register aforesaid under the
seal of the said corporation, shall be evidence.
5. AND BE IT ENACTED, That any thing contained in
any law repugnant to, or inconsistent with the provisions of
this law be, and the same is hereby repealed.
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Dec. Sess.
1815.
Proviso.
Repeal.
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CHAPTER 207.
A further additional supplement to the act entitled, an act for the
regulation and improvement of Denton, in Caroline county.
Sec. 1. BE IT ENACTED by the General Assembly of Ma-
ryland, That from and alter the passage of this act, if any person
or persons shall refuse or neglect to pay the taxes on their real
properly respectively charged against them by virtue of the act
to which this is a supplement, it shall and may be lawful for
the commissioners of the village of Denton, to collect the same
in the same manner that county taxes are collected; Provided
always, that the said commissioners cause to be delivered to the
several persons charged, with taxes as aforesaid, an account of
the same fully stated if such persons reside in the aforesaid vil-
lage or within three miles thereof, three months before they
shall proceed to collect the same as aforesaid; and for the informa-
tion of these who reside at a greater distance, the said commis-
sioners shall cause a like account to be delivered to the person or
persons occupying the property so taxed.
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Passed Jan,
29, 1816.
How to col-
lect.
Proviso.
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