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sessment of any such case of the whole or any part of the costs of such
work pro rata according to the front foot rule of apportionment of the
cost of the improvements or such other equitable basis upon all abutting
property binding upon such street, lane or alley; and for the collection
of such assessment as other city taxes collected, or in such manner as it
may prescribe.

Janis v. Berlin, 153 Md. 156.

1910, ch. 521. 1920 Code, sec. 48.

40. No sidewalk, street or alley shall be graded or the grade thereof
changed or altered in any manner by anyone except on plan made by a
competent surveyor and submitted to and approved by said Mayor and
Council. If any person shall alter or grade, or change the grade of any
sidewalk, street or alley as established, or as it may be hereafter estab-
lished, except as aforesaid, he shall be deemed guilty of a misdemeanor,
and on conviction thereof, shall be fined not less than five dollars nor more
than one hundred 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. 521. 1920 Code. sec. 49.

41. The powers vested in the Mayor and Council of Berlin by Sec-
tions 39 and 40 are intended as additional to and not in abrogation of any
powers already vested in said Mayor and Council.

1902, ch. 185. 1920 Code, sec. 50.

42. Annually on the first day of April next succeeding each levy of
County taxes, the Board of County Commissioners of Worcester County
shall pay to the Mayor and Council of Berlin one-half of all sums levied
by said County Commissioners for road and bridge taxes upon property
within the corporate limits of Berlin, and collected within the preceding
twelve months, to be expended by the Mayor and Council of Berlin for
the repair, maintenance and improvement of the streets and roads within
the corporate limits of Berlin, as a part of the public roads of Worcester
County.

See sec. 65.

1902, ch. 185. 1920 Code, sec. 51.

43. The words "Road and Bridge taxes" as used in Section 42 shall
include and embrace every sum or item in the annual levy of county taxes
applied to or to be applied to the supervision, maintenance or improve-
ment of the county roads and bridges, embracing labor, appliances and
materials, except only such sums as are levied to the Pocomoke Bridge
Company and the Ocean City Bridge Company.

See sec. 68.

BIRDS AND GAME.

(All local game laws were repealed by ch. 568, 1927. See 1929 Supplement to

Annotated Code, Art. 99.)