FREDERICK COUNTY. 2621

assessed upon the property binding on any street or streets, lane or lanes,
alley or alleys, or portions thereof, they shall give notice by advertisement
inserted once a week for two successive weeks in some newspaper published
in or nearest said town in Frederick County, notifying all persons inter-
ested therein to appear and giving them an opportunity to be heard before
the amount assessed against them are finally established by said Council-
man or Councilmen; and any person, including the town itself, feeling
aggrieved at the action of said Councilman, or Councilmen, shall have the
right to appeal to the Circuit Court for Frederick County and to a trial
by jury; provided said appeal be taken within thirty days after the deter-
mination of said Councilman or Councilmen in such case; and an appeal
may be taken to the Court of Appeals by either party, provided said
appeal be entered within thirty days after the rendition of said judgment
by the Circuit Court for Frederick County; and the Burgess and Coun-
cil of Myersville may, if they see fit, provide by a general ordinance for
the grading, paving, curbing, drainage, and sewering, or for the grading,
or paving, or curbing, or sewering, or draining, or for the regrading,
repaving, recurbing and resewering, or repaving, or recurbing, or drain-
ing, or resewering or repairing of any street or streets, lane or lanes, alley,
or alleys, or any portion thereof, in the town of Myersville, without the
passage of a special ordinance in the particular case, subject to the pro-
visions and requirements of this section, except as otherwise provided
herein, whenever the owner of a majority of the front feet of property
binding on such street or streets, lane or lanes, alley or alleys, roads or
part thereof, shall apply for the same upon terms and conditions, private
or public, to be prescribed in said general ordinance, and for the assess-
ment in any such case of the cost of such work, in whole or in part, pro
rata, upon all the property binding upon such street or streets, lane or
lanes, alley or alleys, roads or any part thereof, and for the collection of
such assessment or other taxes are collected. No notice need be given
before the passage of such general ordinance, and said ordinance shall
provide for the appointment of a Councilman, or Councilmen, to deter-
mine the amount of the assessment to be made upon such property, as
provided by said ordinance, and said Councilman, or Councilmen, shall
give notice to all persons interested, as hereinbefore required before the
amounts assessed against them are finally determined upon, and either
party feeling aggrieved at the action of said Councilman or Councilmen
shall have the right to appeal as hereinbefore provided.

1908, ch. 513, sec, 10. 1918 Code, sec. 599.

623. The burgess and councilmen shall cause the footways of said town
to be paved and repaired at the expense of the owners of lots binding
thereon, whenever they may direct said work to be done, and shall direct
how and of what materials the same shall be paved or repaired.

1908, ch. 573, sec. 11. 1918 Code, sec. 600.

624. The burgess and councilmen may appoint annually a policeman
or policemen, who shall have power to preserve the peace and good order