The Baltimore County union. [volume] (Towsontown, Md.) 1865-1909, 1872-05-11

ing ana fronting on said street, avenue, square
or alley, or any part or parts chereof, shall
petition under the provisions of said original
Act, for the grading, paving or making of the
same, the said owner or owners may designate
in such petition the nature and character of
the material to be used in the construction of
the said street, avenue, square or alley, and
also the manner and material in and with
which the same shall be guttered, curbed or
otherwise constructed, and the said Street Com
missioners, in proceeding to advertise for pro-
posals and to contract for the making of said
street, avenue, square or alley, as provided by
said original Act shall adopt the mode of con-
struction of such street, avenue, square or al
ley and the material to be used therein as shall
be designated in said petition, and the cost of
such construction shall be levied and assessed
as provided by said Act.
Section 4. And be it enacted, That whenevi
err, in the construction, under the provisions or
section two of this Act, of any main street or
avenue leading out of the City of Baltimore it,
shall be necessary to erect bridgeover any wa
ter-course, and the County Commissioners of
Baltimore county shall be of the opinion that
the public convenience require the erection of
such bridge, they may and shall appropriate
such sum of money towards the erection of such
bridge as, in their judgment, the public inter-
estS may require and shall provide for such
appropriation by a tax upon the taxable prop
erty of Baltimore county, TO be levied and col
lected as other taxes in said county are levied
and collected.
SECTION 5. And be it enacted, That whenev-
er, in the construction, under the provisions of
the original Act of eighteen hundred and sew
enty, chapter ninety nine, or of this Act, ofany
street, avenue, square or alley, tie said Street
Commissioners shall adopt, condemn and use,
in whole or in part, the location, line or bed of
any private road, street or avenue which shall
have been graded, paved, or curbed by the
owner or owners of the ground bounding there
on, or by their grantors prior TO such adoption,
condemnation and use thereof by the said
Street Commissioners, they shall, on appor-
tioning the damages, costs and expenses ofcon-
struction, as provided by said original Act,
charge and assess upon the said owner or own
ers such sums of money only as may be neces-
sary to make the grading, paving or curbing
so, as aforesaid, done by the owner or owners
of ground bounding on said street, avenue,
square or alley, equal in quality the standard
of construction therefor established by the said
Street Commissioners.
SECTION 6. And be it enacted, That the said
Street Commissioners shall, in accordance with
the requirements of this Act, and of said Act of
eighteen hundred and seventy, chapter ninety
nine, and in conformity, as far as practicable,
with the plan of the streets of the City of Bal
timore, lay off within and without the limits
of one mile from the line of said city, such and
so many cross streets, avenues and alleys,
which shall be made to cross or intersect
streets, avenues and alleys leading out of said
city, as in the judgment fthe said Street Com
missioners the public convenience may require !;
and whenever it shall be found necessary, by
reason of irregularities in the outline of the City
of Baltimore, to extend the said cross streets,
avenues or alleys, or any of them beyond the
limits of two miles from the line of the said
city, the said Street Commissioners may extend
and lay off the same to such point as in their
judgment the public convenience may require.
SECTION Z. And be it enacted, That all Acts
or parts of Acts inconsistent herewith be and
the same are hereby repealed.
SECTION s. And be it enacted, That this Act
shall take effect from its passage
Approved March %. 1872.
VIM. PINKNEY WHITE,
Governor
We do hereby certify that the aforegcing is a
correct copy of an Act which passed the Gen
eral Assembly of Maryland, at the January
session, 1872.
AUGUSTUS GASSAWAY,
Secretary of the Senate.
MILTON Y. KIDD.
Chief Clerk of House of Delegates.
DANIEL J. McCAULEY,
BENZ. F. JORDAN,
EDWARD RIDER,
Co. Commissioners for BALTIC. County.
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