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LAWS OF MARYLAND.

1898, to follow immediately after Section 8 and to be known

and designated as Sections 8A, 8B, 8C and 8D, be and the same

are hereby added to said Chapter 528 of the said Acts of the

said General Assembly, and the said Section 12 of the said

Chapter 528 of the said Acts of said General Assembly be and

the same is hereby repealed and re-enacted with amendments,

to read as to said sections, respectively, as follows:

8A. The Mayor and City Council of said Ocean City be and

Authority
given to the

they are hereby authorized and empowered for the protection

Mayor and

of said city to require the owner or owners of lots fronting

Council of
Ocean City,

on Atlantic avenue in said city to build, construct, erect and

Md., to erect
a sea-wall.

maintain a breakwater or sea-wall of such nature and kind

as in the discretion of the said Mayor and City Council may

seem proper along Atlantic avenue, or any part thereof, in front

of the respective lots of such property owners, and in the event

of the failure of such property owner or owners to build, con-

struct, erect or repair said breakwater or sea-wall in the man-

ner and of such materials as the said Mayor and City Council

may direct within sixty days after written notice served upon

any such property owner or owners in person, or by mailing

same to his, her or their last known postoffice address, then

the said Mayor and City Council shall have the power and

authority to proceed to build, construct, erect or repair said

breakwater or sea-wall, and assess the costs thereof to the

said property owner or owners in front of whose property

said breakwater or sea-wall may be built, erected, constructed

or maintained, in proportion to the frontage of said property,

and such cost shall be collected in the same manner as munici-

Proviso.

pal taxes are collected by law; provided that such proportion

of said breakwater or sea-wall as shall be in front of the public

streets crossing Atlantic avenue shall be built, constructed,

erected and maintained by the Mayor and City Council at the

expense of said city.

8B. The Mayor and City Council of Ocean City be and they

Empowered to

are hereby authorized and empowered to require and enforce

to enforce
the improve-

the grading, regrading, improvement, maintenance and re-

ment of

pairs of the public streets, gutters, sidewalks, alleys and ways

streets, etc.

of the town by the placing of pavements, curbing, shells, dirt,

boardwalks or other improvements of such material and kind

as in the discretion of the Mayor and City Council may seem

proper, at the expense of the owners of the abutting property,

and in case of a failure of such owner or owners of such prop-

erty to make such improvements or repairs in the manner and

of such materials as directed by the Mayor and City Council