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Dec. SESS.
1815.
Plot.
Damages--
costs to be le-
vied.
Obstructing
vessels.
Money may
be borrowed.
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and a majority of said commissioners shall be competent to
execute the powers of the board, and in case of the death or re-
fusel to act of any of them, those remaining shall by appoint
ment fill the vacancy so occasioned.
2. And said commissioners after determining the width and
extent of said dock, shall make out a plat of the same and de-
liver it to the register of the City of Baltimore to be by him
filed in his office.
3. AND BE IT ENACTED, That the mayor of the city
of Baltimore shall appoint five assessors, who shall value and
determine the damages which shall be sustained by any of the
proprietors of the property lying on said dock, by extending or
widening the same, or by any filing which shall be done in
prosecuting said work; and said damages and all the costs
and expences which shall be incurred in the execution of this
act, shall by said assessors be levied on the proprietors of the
property lying on said dock, according to the benefit which in
the opinion of said assessors they shall respectively receive by
said improvements; and the sum so assessed shall be a lien on
the property so determined to be benefited, and if necessary
shall be collected by the collector of taxes of the city of Balti-
more by sale of the properly so awarded to be benefited, he
giving at least thirty days notice of such sale in two newspa-
pers published in the city of Baltimore; and if said dock bo
extended to the south side of Pratt Street, said commissioners
shall for the safety of passengers put up a bulwark fence or
wall across the head of the same.
4. AND BE IT ENACTED, That if any vessel shall be
lying in said dock or at the entrance thereof, so as to obstruct
any vessel which shall be coming into the same, or moving
from one place to another therein, or going out thereof, the ves-
sel so obstructing shall be removed to such place as shall be
necessary to give room to the passing vessel under penalty at
the rate of five dollars an hour for the delay which shall be oc-
casioned to the passing vessel, to be paid by the master or
owner of the obstructing vessel, to the master or owner of the
passing vessel, unless in cases where some unavoidable casual-
ty or accident may make it impracticable to remove the said
obstructing vessel; and if a vessel when moving to make room
for another be obstructed by any vessel, the master or owners
of such obstructing vessel shall forfeit at the rate of five dollars
an hour during the continuance of such obstruction, to be re-
covered by the master or owner of the passing vessel aforesaid;
and said money shall be recovered in the same manner that
small debts are recoverable; and every thing contained in this
clause applicable to vessels or the owners or masters thereof
shall be construed to apply to boats, scows, rafts, arks and the
owners or masters thereof.
5. AND BE IT ENACTED, That said commissioners
shall have power to borrow money to carry the operations
aforesaid into execution, and to pledge said levy or contribu-
tion therefor.
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