522 JOURNAL OF PROCEEDINGS [Mar. 1.
Strike out all after the title, and insert the following :

SEC. 1. Be it enacted by the General Assembly of Maryland,
That the Mayor and City Council of Baltimore be, and it is
hereby authorized and empowered to make such improve-
ments in connection with Jones' Falls as, in the judgment
of the Mayor and City Council of Baltimore are desirable ;
and for this purpose to change the course, lines and bounda-
ries of the said stream, in whole or in part, to widen and
deepen the same ; to lay out and construct on the sides of
and adjacent to the said stream, streets, avenues and
wharves ; to construct all such sewers and drains in said city
as shall be deemed requisite in connection with the said im-
provement ; and generally to do all such things, and exercise
all such powers as, in the judgment of the said Mayor and
City Council of Baltimore, shall be necessary to be done
and exercised for the accomplishment of any plan or plans
for the improvement of Jones' Falls, which have been, or
may be, adopted by the said Mayor and City Council of Bal-
timore.

SEC. 2. And be it further enacted, That the Mayor and
City Council of Baltimore shall have the power at any time
to acquire all property of every kind and description which
it may be necessary, or advisable, in the judgment of the
said Mayor and City Council of Baltimore to acquire for the
accomplishment of the purposes mentioned in the first sec-
tion of this Act, and shall moreover, have full power to pro-
vide for the ascerlainment of the value of all property and
rights of property, which it is thus authorized, to acquire ;
and also to ascertain whether any, and what amount, in
value, of damages will be caused by the construction of the
aforesaid works of improvement in connection with Jones'
Falls, or any of them, to the owner or possessor of any prop-
erty, or rights of property within the said city, for which
said owner or possessor ought to be compensated ; and also
to ascertain what amount of benefits will be caused by the
construction of the aforesaid works of improvement, or any
of them, to the owner, or possessor of any property, or rights
of property within the said city, for which such owner or
possessor ought to pay a compensation; and to provide for
assessing and levying either generally on the whole assessable
property of said city, or specially on the property of persons
benefitted, the whole or any part of the amount of damages
and expenses which shall be ascertained will be incurred in
constructing such works in connection with the improvement
of Jones' Falls, as the said Mayor and City Council of Balti-
more have determined, or shall determine to make ; to pro-
vide for granting appeals to the Baltimore City Court, from
the decisions of any Commissioner or other persons, appoint-