1566 LAWS OF MARYLAND. [Ch. 800]

from time to time of the grade lines of any strect, lane, alley
or part thereof now or hereafter marked, located or laid out;
to provide by ordinance for grading, graveling, shelling, macad-
amizing, paving or curbing, or any of them, or for regrading.
reshelling, remacadamizing, repaving and recurbing or any of
them, of any street, lane or alley in said city or part thereof
now condemned, ceded, dedicated or opened as a public high-
way or which may hereafter be condemned, ceded, dedicated,
opened, widened, straightened or altered according to the laws
and ordinance regulating same, and also for assessing the cost
of any such work not exceeding one-half the cost upon any
property binding upon such street, lane, alley or highway or
part thereof, that is to say, not to exceed one-fourth of said
cost upon any property binding upon each or either side of
such street, lane, alley or highway or part thereof, according
to the front foot rule of apportionment of the cost of improve-
ment or such other equitable basis as it may determine, and
for the collection of the said assessment as other city taxes are
collected or in such manner as it may prescribe, either before
or after the work shall have been done. To provide by ordi-
nance for grading, macadamizing, paving or curbing or any
of them or for regrading, repaving, regraveling, reshelling.
remacadamizing or recurbing of them of any street, lane, alley
or highway or part thereof in said city, whenever the owners of
R majority of the front feet or property binding on such street,
lane, alley or highway or part thereof shall apply for the same,
upon terms and under conditions to be prescribed in said ordi-
nance, and for the assessment of any such case of the whole or
any part of the costs of such work pro rata according to the
front foot rule of apportionment of the cost of the improvements
or such other equitable basis upon all abutting property bind-
ing upon such street, lane or alley; and for the collection of
such assessment as other city taxes collected, or in such manner
as it may prescribe.

SEC. 2. And be it further enacted, That all acts or parts of
acts inconsistent herewith are hereby repealed.

SEC. 3. And be it further enacted, That this act shall take
effect from the date of its passage.

Approved April 15, 1912.

CHAPTER 800.

AN ACT to incorporate the town of Chevy Chase, in Montgom-
ery county, Maryland.
(Vetoed.)