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of any application for the passage of such ordinance once a week for four successive weeks, in one of the newspapers published in said city; and before any Commissioners appointed by any ordinance of said corporation under this and the preceding section, shall proceed to the performance of their duty, they shall give notice in at least one of the news- papers published in said city of the object of the ordinance under which they propose to act, at least two weeks before the time of their first meeting to execute the same.	Publish notice
167. The Mayor, Aldermen and Common Coun- cil of Frederick shall have power, at such time or times as they may think proper, to appoint Com- missioners or assessors to revise, amend, correct, alter avid change the assessment of the property of the citizens of said municipal corporations, and to add to or reduce the valuation of the property, real or personal, of said citizens, or any portion thereof, thereupon the taxes hereinbefore author- ized, shall be levied on such new, revised or changed valuation; and be il further provided, that a right	Commission- ers to assess.
of appeal from the assessment made as aforesaid by the said Commissioners or assessors, shall be had to the Mayor, the President of the Board of Alder- men, and the President of the Board of Common Council, or either two of them, whose duty it shall be, under such terms as may be prescribed by the corporate authorities aforesaid, to examine into the	Appeal,
merits or demerits of such appeal, and whose de- cision in the premises shall be final, and the assess- ment so corrected and amended, shall be [be] ap- plicable to all taxes authorized under the authority of the corporation of Frederick aforesaid.	Decision final.
169. They shall have power to provide for ap- prehending all vagrants, and for committing them to the jail of Frederick county for a term not ex- ceeding thirty days, and they shall provide by or- dinance for taking such vagrants from the jail from day to day and compelling them to work at such labor as shall be required by the Mayor, and it shall be the duty of the sheriff to permit such vagrants committed to the jail to be taken there- from and returned thereto, during the time for which they may be committed, as often as the Mayor shall direct, and by such person as he shall	Arrest vagrants.