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binding on any street, lane or alley, or part thereof, which may have been
so improved, to the extent that such property shall have been specially
benefited by such improvement; provided, that no property, upon which
the assessment originally made for its s dare of the cost of such improve-
ment shall have been paid, shall be again assessed, and that reasonable
notice and an opportunity to be heard shall be given to all persons inter-
ested before the final ascertainment of the amount of tax to be paid by
such property; and the Mayor and Aldermen of Frederick shall provide
for appeal to the Circuit Court for Frederick County, with right to a trial
by jury, by any person or persons interested, including the Mayor and
Aldermen of Frederick itself, from the decision of any commissioner or
commissioners or other persons appointed to determine the amount or
amounts of such special taxes or assessments, and providing further for
an appeal to the Court of Appeals.

LICENSED.

1904, ch. 295, sec. 257. 1918 Code, sec. 297.

276. They shall have power to regulate and provide for the issuing of
licenses or permits for all hauling, peddling and vending of marketable
commodities, wares and merchandise of every description upon the streets
or highways of the city, and to issue licenses or permits to all itinerant
peddlers who may go from house to house to vend or sell any wares or
merchandise; to regulate and provide for the issuing of licenses to all
traveling persons who dispense medicine or medical advice and secret or
patented inventions and remedies; and for licensing commercial travelers
and all retail dealers and solicitors now residents of the city; to regulate
and license hackney carriages, omnibuses, or other vehicles used in the
city for carriage of passengers or travelers; and if they see fit, they may
require every such vehicle to be numbered to correspond with the number
upon the license issued to it in pursuance of this authority; to levy or
collect a license or tax upon all vehicles of every kind owned by residents
of the city and habitually kept therein a ad used upon the streets thereof;
and the Mayor and Aldermen shall also have power by ordinance or ordi-
nances to levy and collect a license tax and regulate any and all callings,
trades, professions and occupations conducted, pursued, carried on or
operated within the limits of said city, and may levy and collect special
taxes upon all telegraph, telephone, electric light and trolley poles or posts
erected and maintained within the corporate limits of Frederick.

MANUFACTURES.

P. L. L., 1888, Art. 11, sec. 266. 1918 Code, sec. 298.

277. The Mayor and Aldermen are authorized and empowered, when-
ever it shall seem to them expedient for the encouragement of the growth
and development of manufactures and manufacturing industry in the
City of Frederick, to provide by general ordinance for the abatement of