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LAWS OF MARYLAND.

thereon, and collect the expense thereof of grading, paving,
sewering, or otherwise improving the same, as directed in
the next succeeding section.

LEVYING FOR GRADING, ETC. — How MADE A LIEN.

Levy
for grading,
paving, etc.

Sec. 192. Whenever the Mayor and Common Council
shall levy any sum of money on the owners of property in
said city for grading, paving, sewering, or otherwise improv-
ing the streets, lanes or alleys in said city, or any of them,
the sum so levied shall be a lien on said property; provided,
said Mayor and Common Council shall within sixty days
after the completion of such grading, paving, sewering, or
other improving, cause to be filed with the Clerk of the Cir-
cuit Court for Carroll County a statement showing the whole
amount expended in such grading, paving, sewering or other
improving, and the names of the persons among whom the
said sum has been apportioned, and the amount apportioned
to each, and a general description of the land owned by each

How
made a lien.

of said parties, upon which said sums are intended to operate
as a lien, and said statement shall constitute a lien on said
property for the space of three years and no longer, unless
the same shall be revived, or enforced by scire facias.

STREET GRADES — HOW ESTABLISHED.

Street grades.

Sec. 193. No street shall be graded, nor shall any grade be
established for any street, nor shall grade be changed or
altered upon any street or part of a street in said city; nor
shall any repairs be made upon any street, or part of a street,
therein affecting the existing grade thereof, except under the
supervision of the street committee, and upon plans made by
them, which plans, however, the Common Council may
change or modify if objected to by any party in interest.

MAYOR AND COMMON COUNCIL MUST RETAIN QUALIFICA-
TIONS.

Qualifications.

Sec. 194. The Mayor and each member of the Common
Council during the whole term for which they are elected
shall be possessed of all the qualifications rendering them
eligible to be elected, and if any one of them during the
term for which he was elected shall fail to retain all the
qualifications necessary to render him eligible to election,
he shall forfeit such office, and the vacancy shall be filled as
hereinbefore provided.