EDWIN WARFIELD. ESQ., GOVERNOR.

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such rulings. And if the judgment shall be against the peti-
tioner he shall pay all the costs of said trial, including the

Upon approv-
al of ordi-

cost of the jury; and if in his favor, said costs shall be paid

nance, work
to proceed.

by the said Mayor and City Council of Cumberland. If no

petition shall be filed as aforesaid or if upon trial as herein pro-

vided said ordinance shall be approved, the said Mayor and City

Council may proceed with said improvement and thereafter

all parties interested shall be stopped from denying the fact

that said petition to the Mayor and City Council was signed

by the owner of a majority of front feet of property on said

street or alley or part thereof to be improved as required

by this section. And whenever under any ordinance passed as

provided for by this section the plans of said improvement

shall call for recurbing said streets, the cost of said recurbing

shall be borne entirely by said property owners. And the

Mayor and City Council may appoint commissioners as pro-

Appointment
of assess-

vided in Article 1. Section 66, of the Code of Public Local Laws
of Maryland, entitled "Allegany County, " sub-title "Cumber-

ment com-
missioners.

land. " to assess and levy upon the owners of property abutting

upon the street or alley or part thereof to be improved accord-

ing to the number of front feet owned by them, two-thirds of

the cost of said improvement, the balance to be paid by the

Mayor and City Council; provided, that before said Commis-

sioners shall proceed to assess and lew said costs, they shall

give notice by hand bills to be conspicuously posted along the

line of the proposed improvement, of the time and place, when

and where said Commissioners will sit to determine said assess-

ments, at which time and place all owners of property interested

shall be entitled to appear and be heard in person or by counsel

by said Commissioners on the question of said assessments and

costs. And the Mayor and City Council may provide by

appropriate ordinances for carrying out the provisions of this

section. And a majority in interest of the owners of undivided

interests in any piece of property are to be deemed the owners

thereof for the purposes of this section.

69. Whenever the Mayor and City Council shall levy any
sum of money on the owners of property in said city for grad-
ing, paving, curbing, sewering, or otherwise improving the

The sum lev-
ied to be a

lien on the
property.

streets, lanes or alleys of said city, or any of them, or for re-

grading, repaving, recurbing, resewering or otherwise im-

proving any of said streets, lanes or alleys in said city, or any

of them, the sum so levied shall be a lien on said property and

shall be a preferred lien the same as city taxes for general

purposes now are; provided, said Mayor and City Council