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P. L. L. (1888), art. 1, sec. 154. 1878, ch. 255. 1910, ch. 138 (p. 492).
1922, ch. 31, sec. 154.

216. The Mayor and Councilmen of Frostburg shall have power and
authority to grade and pave all sidewalks and gutters which in their judg-
ment the public convenience may require, and to cause said sidewalks and
gutters to be regraded, repaved, repaired or otherwise improved, and to
cause said sidewalks and streets to be curbed and recurbed, and to col-
lect the cost thereof from the person or persons owning the property front-
ing on any said sidewalks, curbs or gutters, and whenever the person or
persons owning the property fronting on any such sidewalks, curbs and
gutters shall fail or refuse to have such sidewalks, curbs or gutters paved,
graded, curbed, repaved, regraded, recurbed, when and as directed to do
so by any ordinance of said city, within thirty days from the date of its
passage, or shall fail or refuse to repair the same after thirty days' written
notice given by the Street Superintendent, the said Mayor and Council-
men shall have the materials found and the work done, and shall cause
the Street Commissioner to ascertain the amount chargeable to each pro-
prietor or owner, and the said Mayor and Councilmen may recover the
same as other debts due said city, provided that twenty days' notice in
writing shall be given by the City Clerk to said proprietor or owner of
the amount of his or her assessment, prior to the institution of such suit.
Hitchins v. Frostburg, 68 Md. 100. Frostburg v. Hitchins, 70 Md. 57.

1900, ch. 002. 1910, ch. 729, sec. 154A (p. 513).

217. All assessments heretofore or hereafter made by the Mayor and
Councilmen against property or property owners for the improvement
of streets, sidewalks and opening of streets in the town of Frostburg shall
be a lien for three years from the time the same becomes or shall become
due and payable upon the property on which said asssessment has been
or shall be made, and in the event of an appeal being taken by any prop-
erty owner from said assessment, the said period of limitations shall be
suspended pending such appeal.

1910, ch. 729, sec. 154B (p. 513).

218. Said assessment shall be a first lien upon the property assessed,
preferred to all other liens except State, county and corporation taxes.

1910, ch. 729, sec. 154C (p. 513).

219. The Mayor and Councilmen shall keep a book in the office of the
Tax Collector, in which shall be recorded all liens claimed under this Act,
and the said lien record shall constitute due notice to the purchaser or
purchasers of property therein mentioned of the payment or non-payment
of assessments as herein noted.

P. L. L. (1888), Art. 1, sec. 155. 1870. ch. 77.

220. The Mayor and Councilmen, or the Mayor and a majority of the
•Council, shall execute and deliver to the purchaser a deed of the property