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LAWS OF MARYLAND.

that the expense to be levied upon the property owners through

whose property any streets may be laid under this Act shall

Mayor to de-

not exceed in amount the compensation granted them for the

termine dis-

right of way through their properties. Should any dispute

putes.

arise as to the application of this proviso, the same shall be

determined by the Mayor of Cumberland.

SEC. 7. And be it enacted, That all assessments made under

Assessments.

the preceding sections shall be due and owing to the Mayor

and City Council of Cumberland, and shall be collected by

the Mayor and City Council of said city in the same manner

as assessments made under the provisions of its present or

amended charter, and the amount apportioned amongst the

property holders shall constitute a lien thereon until paid;

provided, however, that the amount determined upon by said

Commissioners to be paid by the Board of County Com-

missioners of Allegany County shall be levied for the use of the

Mayor and City Council of Cumberland by said County Com-

missioners as a special levy under the powers conferred upon

said Commissioners by Chapter 323 of the Acts of Assembly

of 1902, as soon as the improvements and work herein provided

for shall have been reported to the Mayor and City Council

of Cumberland as completed, and all amounts allowed by

said Commissioners herein as damages, if any, and all costs

attending the laying out and extension of the said street and

the grading, paving, or macadamizing, sewering or otherwise

improving the same, shall be payable by the Mayor and City

Council of Cumberland, and it shall be the duty of the Mayor

Municipality
to settle for
damages.

and City Council of Cumberland to provide for the payment of
the same by furnishing to the Commissioners herein named

the necessary funds to pay for the work and improvements

herein provided for, from time to time as the same progresses,

upon the demand or request of a majority of said Commis-

sioners in writing.

SEC. 8. And be it enacted, That this Act shall take effect

from the date of its passage.

Approved April 12, 1904.

CHAPTER 643.

AN ACT to add an additional section to Article 10 of the

Code of Public Local Laws of Maryland, title "Dorchester

County," to be known as Section 228A, under a new sub-

title of "Fraud on Livery Stable Keepers," provid-