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CHAPTER 115.
An act for the extension of South-street in the City of Bal-
timore.
Sec. 1. Be it enacted by the General Assembly of Maryland, That
Robert G. Harper, Henry Payson, James Hindman, Robert Mills
and Alexander Brown, or a majority of them, be and they are here-
by appointed a board of commissioners to lay out and extend South-
street, in the city of Baltimore, in the manner herein after provid-
ed; and whenever a vacancy in the said board may occur, by the
resignation, death, refusal to act, or other inability of any of the
said commissioners, the said board, or so many of them as may
consent to act, shall supply such vacancy by a new appointment;
and a majority of said commissioners shall be competent to perform
the duties of said board.
2. And be it enacted, That the said commissioners be and they
are hereby authorised and empowered, to lay out and extend South-
street in the city of Baltimore as follows: beginning for the east
side of said extension at the southwest corner of the Franklin Bank,
and running thence along the east side of North Lane to East-street,
thence northerly in a straight line, to Madison-street, thence run-
ning northerly until it intersects the York turnpike road, in such
direction as the commissioners may judge most conducive to the
public convenience; and the said street shall be laid out sixty feet
wide from Baltimore-street to Madison-street, and from Madison-
street to the York turnpike road sixty feet wide, or as near sixty
feet as the nature of the ground over which it passes will in the
opinion of the commissioners admit; and the said commissioners
shall cause a plot of the said street to be made, and shall return
the same, under their hands and seals, to be lodged in the office
of the register of the city of Baltimore, there to remain as part
of said city.
3. And be it enacted, That the said commissioners, after having
surveyed the ground and designated the street as aforesaid, shall,
after having given ten days notice in two of the newspapers print-
ed in the city of Baltimore, proceed to ascertain and determine
what damages will be sustained by the owners of property lying
within or adjacent to the said street, by reason of the opening and
extension thereof, taking into consideration all advantages and
disadvantages.
4. And be it enacted, That the said commissioners after having
ascertained the damages as aforesaid, and added thereto the com-
mission allowed to the collector as herein after provided, and an
estimate of the probable expense of opening and extending said
street, shall first levy upon the city of Baltimore one-third of the
whole damages to be sustained, and expenses to be incurred, by
the opening and extension of the said street, and they shall then
proceed to assess the residue of the said sum upon property bene-
fitted by the opening and extension of the said street, having regard
to all circumstances; and having completed the said estimate and
assessment, the said commissioners shall make a full and particular
return thereof, under their hands and seals, to the office of the re-
gister of the city of Baltimore, designating precisely the property
assessed as benefitted, and the names of the proprietors of both
species of property, as fully as they can ascertain the same.
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Dec Ses. 1817.
Passed Feb. 3
Appointment
of commission-
ers.
Street to be
laid out and
extended.
Damages.
One third of
the expense to
be levied on
the City.
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