3580 ARTICLE 16.

nance requiring the whole or any portion of the costs to be assessed upon
the property, ten days' notice shall be given by the Mayor in some news-
paper published in said town, notifying all persons interested therein to
appear, and giving them the opportunity to be heard before the said
Mayor and Council, at such time as shall be provided in said notice, and
the Mayor and Council of Rockville are hereby authorized and empow-
ered to provide by ordinance for the appointment of a committee of the
Mayor and Council, or such other person or persons as they shall appoint,
not exceeding three nor less than one, who shall act as commissioner or
commissioners, to determine the amount of assessment to be made upon
any such property, under the provisions contained in this Act, and the
ordinance or ordinances passed in pursuance hereof, and after the com-
missioner or commissioners so appointed shall have completed their ap-
pointment of the expenses to be assessed on the property binding on any
street or streets, lane or lanes, alley or alleys, or portion thereof, they shall
give notice by advertisement inserted once a week for two successive weeks,
in some newspaper published in said town, notifying all persons interested
therein to appear and giving them an opportunity to be heard before the
amounts assessed against them are finally established by said commis-
sioner or commissioners, and any person, including the town itself, feeling
aggrieved at the action of said commissioner or commissioners, shall have
the right to appeal to the Circuit Court for Montgomery County and to
a trial by jury; provided said appeal be taken within thirty days after
the determination of said commissioner or commissioners in such case,
and an appeal may be taken to the Court of Appeals by either party; pro-
vided, said appeal be entered within thirty days after the rendition of
said judgment by the Circuit Court for Montgomery County.

1927, ch. 508, sec. 492B.

809. The Mayor and Council of Rockville may, if they see fit, provide
by a general ordinance for the" grading, paving, curbing and laying of
water and sewer mains, or for the grading or paving, or curbing, or laying
of water and sewer mains, or for the regrading, repaving, recurbing and
relaying of water and sewer mains, or for the regrading, or repaving, or
recurbing, or relaying of water and sewer mains, or repaving of any street
or streets, lane or lanes, alley or alleys, or any portion thereof, in 'Rock-
ville, without the passage of a special ordinance in the particular case,
subject to the provisions and requirements of Section 808 of this subtitle,
except as otherwise provided in this section, whenever the owners of a
majority of the front feet of property binding on such street or streets,
lane or lanes, alley or alleys, or parts thereof, shall apply for the same,
upon terms and conditions to be prescribed in said general ordinance, and
for the assessment 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, or parts thereof, and for the collection of
such assessments as other city taxes are collected. No notice need be
given before the passage of such general ordinance, and said ordinance