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notice, the said notice to state, that unless the Commissioners should, for
cause shown, determine to the contrary that an ordinance would be later
passed assessing one-half of the costs of the said public improvement upon
all of the property binding upon the said public thoroughfare, and the
balance of the costs thereof to be paid by the city, any objections or excep-
tions, as aforesaid, that may be filed, to be heard, considered and deter-
mined as the Commissioners shall deem proper and after such considera-
tion, if no cause shown, or insufficient cause shown, then the Commission-
ers shall proceed to make the said assessment by ordinance.

The Commissioners shall by ordinance assess the land and property
binding upon the proposed improved thoroughfare, by front foot, the
amount necessary to pay at least one-half of the cost of the improvement,
the cost of the said improvement being stated in the ordinance, the num-
ber of front feet of land assessed, and the amount appropriated by the
Commissioners from the city treasury to pay the cost of the remaining
half of the improvement, to be provided as hereinafter set forth, when
the assessment shall be due and payable, and that after the assessment is
in arrear and unpaid, to provide for enforcing the collection of the same,
the ordinance to state the kind of improvement that has been determined
to be made, and before the said ordinance shall become effective, it shall
be published in some newspaper published in Cambridge, for at least
twice in ten days, following the date of the ordinance, with an order nisi
which shall state the time when the said ordinance shall be finally passed
or become entirely effective, unless good cause or reason to the contrary
be shown to the Commissioners on or before the time named in the said
order nisi, for cause to be shown, and if no sufficient cause to the contrary
shall be made to appear to the Commissioners, they shall, on or after the
time named in the order nisi, pass an order as part of the said ordinance,
making it effective from the date of the said final order.

Provided that any person in interest, who shall feel aggrieved by the
passage of any such ordinance, whether the said ordinance is passed in
consequence of the action of the Commissioners of Cambridge in making
any of said improvements, without petition having been filed, and by
virtue of the power and authority herein conferred upon it, or whether
the said improvement is made as the result and consequence of a petition
filed by the property owners as hereinbefore set forth, in either event, or
in the event that both of said proceedings have been had to procure the
said improvement, within fifteen days from the date of the said final order,
shall have the right to appeal from the said final order to the Circuit
Court for Dorchester County, the said appellant to execute an appeal bond,
in the penalty of two hundred dollars ($200.00), payable to the State
of Maryland, for the use of the Commissioners of Cambridge, conditioned,
that if the appellant shall not prosecute his appeal with effect, then the
said bond and the said appellant to be liable for all the costs, expenses
and damage to the City of Cambridge, on account of the said appeal, but
if the said appeal should be prosecuted with effect, then the said bond
to be void, and should the said appeal be taken it shall be noted upon the