Where real estate within the said City has been or may be divided according to law among heirs, legatees, joint tenants or tenants in common, entitled to the same; and such division calls for any of the streets, lanes or alleys or any part thereof surveyed and laid off under the Act of 1817, Chapter 148, or reserves of any of the streets, lanes or alleys, or any part thereof, as open, and divides such estate with reference thereto, the Mayor and City Council of Baltimore may, on application of one or more persons interested in the ground to be taken on such application, adopt and sanction by ordinance the principle under which such division was had, and open any of the said streets, lanes or alleys, or any parts thereof, in the said division reserved or recognized; provided, at least one week’s notice in the newspapers of said City (the cost of the advertisement to be paid by the applicants), be given of such application before any such ordinance shall pass. P.L.L., 1860, §842 1888, §813 1915, §831 1927, §831 1930, §831 1938, §1062 1949, §683 1969, §21-20 1833, ch. 182 1898, ch. 123, §831