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Passed Feb 12
Commission-
ers—damages.
Persons ag-
grieved may
apply to judges
of city court.
Collection of
assessments.
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CHAPTER 163.
An act to provide for the extending of Lombard-street in
the City of Baltimore.
Sec. 1. Be it enacted by the General Assembly of Maryland, That
the judges of Baltimore city court be and they are hereby autho-
rised to appoint five commissioners, and to fill up all vacancies
caused by the refusal to act, death or resignation, of the persons
so appointed; and the said commissioners, or a majority of them,
shall lay out and extend Lombard-street in the city of Baltimore,
eastwardly, such width as the said commissioners shall think ne-
cessary, to Calvert street, the north side of such extension to be
on a direct line from the northwest corner of Hanover and Lom-
bard-streets to the intersection of the east line of South-street
with the north line of Water-street, and the south line, until it
intersects Water-street; and the said commissioners shall assess
the damages which in their judgment may be sustained, by any per-
son or persons, by the opening and extending the said street, of
which damages so ascertained the mayor and city council of Balti-
more shall pay the one third part, and the remaining two thirds
shall be by the commissioners aforesaid assessed on the property
which in their judgment shall be benefited by the extension of said
street, in such proportions as the said commissioners shall deter-
mine to be just and right; a plot of said street, so extended, together
with the valuation and assessments aforesaid, shall be returned
by the said commissioners, under their hands and seals, to the re-
gister's office of said city, to be there preserved as other public pa-
pers.
2. And be it enacted, That the register aforesaid shall give notice
of the said returns in two or more newspapers of the city, imme-
diately after the same are made, and all persons conceiving them-
selves aggrieved by such valuation or assessment, may within thir-
ty days after such notice, by petition, make known the same to the
judges aforesaid, who are hereby authorised to review and correct
such valuation and assessment, in the whole or in part, as to them
shall appear just and right, and their decision thereon shall be made
and returned within sixty days after the publication or notice
above directed, under their hands and seals, to the register's office
aforesaid, there to be preserved as other public papers, and notice
of such returns shall be by him forthwith given in two or more
newspapers of the city; and the expenses incurred in making such
review, to be ascertained and allowed by the said judges, shall be
paid by the parties concerned therein in such portions as the said
judges shall award and determine.
3. And be it enacted, That the several sums assessed by the said
commissioners, or by the judges on a review as aforesaid, on the
property benefit ted by the extending said street, shall be a lien thereon
until paid, and the amount thereof, and such reasonable expense as
shall be incurred by the said commissioners in the execution of.
this act, to be by them ascertained and transmitted with their re-
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