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in full to the abutting property owners, among the owners of lots fronting
on said streets, lanes or alleys, or improved portion thereof, so that one-
third of such expense shall be borne by the owners of each abutting lot on
each side of said street, lane or alley, or part thereof, so improved, and
the remaining third of such expense shall be paid by said city.

Provided, that in the event of such paving, repaving or repairing of
streets, lanes or alleys, or part thereof, and upon the property lines, tracks
or franchise rights of any street car company located and having its
tracks upon said street, lane or alley, or part thereof, so improved, then
the Mayor and Councilmen shall collect in the manner hereinafter pro-
vided from said street car company a sum of money equal to the extent
such property shall have been specially benefited by such improvements.
And it shall be the duty of the Mayor and Councilmen to provide by
ordinance for the appointment of commissioners to assess the value of such
improvements, and the Mayor and Councilmen shall give reasonable notice
and an opportunity to be heard to all persons interested before the final
ascertainment of the amount of tax to be paid by any such property;
and the said Mayor and Councilmen shall provide for appeals to the
Circuit Court for Allegany County by any person or persons interested,
including the Mayor and Councilmen, from the decision of any commis-
sioner or other persons appointed to determine the amount or amounts
of such assessments, with the right to any person or persons interested or
the Mayor and Councilmen to an appeal to the Court of Appeals.

And the Mayor and Councilmen shall provide by ordinance for the
giving of notice by publication or by service of written notice personally
upon the parties to be affected by said proceedings, and allowing them to
be heard before any such proceedings are had. But nothing in this section
shall be construed to prevent said Mayor and Councilmen from construct-
ing any sewer or sewers or system of sewers and paying for the same out
of the funds of the city, nor to prevent said Mayor and Councilmen, in the
event no assessment is made upon the property owners for the cost of
said sewers, from charging a reasonable sum for the right of connection
therewith in perpetuity and to require all owners of improved or vacant
property to which said sewer when attached would be benefited thereby,
to take out and pay for a license to attach to said sewer within sixty days
after the completion of said work, all of which powers are hereby granted
to said Mayor and Councilmen; and provided further, that the Mayor
and Councilmen may exercise this right to repave, regrade, recurb, and
resewer, only after the expiration of ten years from the time of the com-
pletion of the paving, grading, curbing or sewering of said streets, lanes
or alleys, or parts thereof, which are to be repaved, regraded, recurbed or
resewered.

Whenever the Mayor and Councilmen shall levy any sum of money on
the owners of property in said city for grading, paving, curbing, sewer-
ing, regrading, repaving, recurbing, resewering or otherwise improving