SOMERSET COUNTY. 4403

assessment as other city taxes are collected or in such manner as it may
prescribe. In any and all cases where any street, lane, alley or part thereof
in the City has been graded, paved or curbed, or regraded, repaved or
recurbed, under any ordinance which provided for assessing any portion
or the whole of the costs of such improvement upon the property binding
upon such street, lane or alley or part thereof, and any part or the whole
of such costs remain unpaid, it shall be lawful for the city to provide by
ordinance for the levy and collection in such manner, as it may deem
proper, of a tax upon all property binding on any street, lane, or alley

or any part thereof, which may have been so improved to the extent that
such property shall have been specially benefited by such improvements;
provided, that no property upon which the assessments originally made for
its share of the cost of such improvement shall have been paid, shall be
again assessable. Any part of the cost assessed to the City under the pro-
visions of this section shall be paid out of the special fund, if one is pro-
vided, or out of the general fund of the city; provided that before the
passage by the Mayor and Council of Crisfield of any ordinance under this
section ten days' notice at least shall be given in one of the newspapers
published in said city of the day when any such ordinance is proposed to
be passed by the Council, and an opportunity shall be afforded to all
persons interested therein to appear and be heard before said Council;
and before any assessment made by the Mayor and Council or its author-
ized agent under any ordinance passed under the provisions of this section
shall be finally ratified ten days' notice at least shall be given in one news-
paper published in said city of the time when said assessment is to be
finally ratified, and an opportunity shall be afforded all persons interested
therein to appear and be heard. Any person interested feeling aggrieved
by the passage of any ordinance or any assessment made in pursuance
thereof under the provisions of this section shall have the right within ten

days after the passage of an ordinance or final ratification of any assess-
ment of an appeal to the Circuit Court for Somerset County.

1910, ch. 529, sec. 90 (p. 1101).

86. No sidewalk, street or alley shall be graded or the grade thereof
changed or altered in any manner by anyone except on a plan made by a
competent surveyor and submitted to, and approved by, said Mayor and
Council. If any person shall change the grade of any sidewalk, street,
or alley as established, or as it may be hereafter established, except as
aforesaid, he shall be deemed guilty of a misdemeanor, and on conviction
thereof shall be fined not less than five dollars and stand committed to the
County Jail until the fine and costs are paid; and, in addition thereto,
shall pay all costs and expenses of restoring said sidewalk, street or alley
to its original grade.

1910, ch.. 529, sec. 91 (p. 1101).

87. The year for improving and repairing the streets, lanes, alleys and
thoroughfares of said city under this section shall be reckoned from the
first day of June, inclusive, in one year to the first day of June in the