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fore 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 of Allegany County by any person or persons inter-
ested, including the Mayor and Councilmen themselves, from the decision
of any commissioners or other persons appointed to determine the amount
or amounts of such special taxes or assessments; and in the trial of such
appeals the practice shall conform as near as may be to the practice in the
trial of street appeals including the right of appeal, to the Court of Ap-
peals.

BUILDINGS—AISLES.

P. L. L. (1888), Art. 1, sec. 93. 1880, ch. 133.

239. It shall not be lawful for the owners or lessees of any public hall,
church, school, or place of amusement, in the cities of Baltimore, Cum-
berland, Frederick, Annapolis, Hagerstown or Frostburg, to obstruct,
or allow to be obstructed by others, any of the aisles or passage-ways in
the auditorium of said halls, churches, schools or places of amusement,
by placing therein any benches, chairs or stools, or other articles that
may prevent free ingress or egress during the hours that said places may
be open to the public.

P. L. L. (1888), Art. 1. sec. 94. 1880, ch. 133.

240. Said owners or lessees, or their agents, are required to keep open
at all hours during the time said halls, churches, schools or other places
of amusement are open to the public, all doors giving means of ingress
or egress, unless said doors open outward from said places, then the same
may be closed, but no hindrance, such as locks or catches of any kind,
shall be allowed to obstruct or prevent instant and easy egress through
the same; and when said doors open inwards, it is required of said owners,
lessees and their agents, that said doors shall be fastened securely and
firmly open.

P. L. L. (1888), Art. 1, sec. 95. 1880, ch. 133.

241. Owners or lessees, or any person holding under them, or their
agents, violating either of the two preceding sections, shall, on conviction
thereof, be fined by the court before whom such conviction is had for any
violation, a sum not exceeding five hundred dollars, to be recovered as
other fines in this State, one-half of which shall go to the State and the
other half to the city where such violation occurs and conviction thereof
is had.

P. L. L. (1888), Art. 1, sec. 96. 1880, ch. 133.

242. It is made the special duty of the judge or judges of the courts
having criminal jurisdiction in said cities of Baltimore, Cumberland,
Frederick, Annapolis, Hagerstown and Frostburg, to specially charge
the grand juries of said courts upon the execution of the three preceding-