4794 ARTICLE 22.

the assessment in any such case, of the cost of such work, in whole or in
part, pro rata, upou all the property binding upon such street, lane, or
alley, or part thereof, and for the collection of such assessment as other
city taxes are collected.

Hagerstown r. Startzman, 93 Md. 606.

1892, ch. 123, sec. 182C.

347. A tenant for ninety-nine years, or for ninety-nine years renewable
forever, or the executor or administrator of such tenant, or the guardian
of an infant owner, or a mortgagee in possession, shall be deemed and
taken as an owner for the purposes of any application to the mayor and
council authorized by this act, and the application of any such person shall
bind the property so represented for any assessment or tax made under an
ordinance passed in pursuance of the provisions of this act.*

1896, ch. 171. 1904, ch. 390.

348. Whenever the Mayor and Council shall proceed to exercise the
powers vested in them by Sections 345 and 346, and shall provide by gen-
eral or special ordinance for paving any street, lane, or alley, or part
thereof, that portion of the cost paving of said street, lane, alley or part
thereof, which shall devolve upon the Mayor and Council of Hagerstown,
shall be provided for in manner following, that is to say, after the entire
cost of paving said street, lane, alley or part thereof has been fully deter-
mined and the portion of the cost thereof which the Mayor and Council
shall be obliged to pay been fully and definitely ascertained and deter-
mined and before work is begun, the said Mayor and Council is authorized
and empowered to levy on the assessable property of the town a tax not
exceeding in amount ten cents on every hundred dollars' worth of assess-
able property in any one year, to be collected as other city taxes are col-
lected, to pay the Mayor and Council's due and proper portion of said
cost, as previously ascertained, for paving said street, lane, or alley, or
any portion thereof, and the said levy for the purpose aforesaid shall only
be made once in any one year, and that shall be at the time of the making
of the annual levy of taxes by the said Mayor and Council and be included
therein.

P. L. L., 1888, Art. 22, sec. 183. 1884. ch. 58. 1920, ch. 10. 1924, ch. 260, sec. 183.

349. There shall be three Street Commissioners, and before the first
regular meeting of the Mayor and Council in February, the Mayor, with
the advice and consent of the Council, shall appoint one Street Commis-
sioner to serve for the term of three years from the first- Monday in March
next succeeding the date of his appointment; and annually thereafter, be-
fore the first meeting of the Mayor and Council in February, there shall
be appointed in the same manner a Commissioner to serve for the term
of three years from the first Monday in March next succeeding his ap-

*The title of ch. 123 of 1892 contains no reference to sec. 182C, but the enacting
clause, as well as the Act, does