994 ARTICLE 4.

Commissioner or Commissioners, or other person or persons, acting either
under the provisions of an Act of the General Assembly o'f Maryland,
or of an ordinance of the Mayor and City Council of Baltimore, or both,
whereby authority was granted to assess the whole or any portion of the
costs of such improvement upon property benefited thereby, and such
assessments, or any part thereof remain unpaid, it shall be lawful for
the Mayor and City Council of Baltimore to provide by ordinance for
levy and collection, in such manner as it may deem proper, of a tax to
the extent of such special benefit upon all the property, which the said
Mayor and City Council of Baltimore, or the said Commissioner or Com-
missioners, or other person or persons above mentioned, have designated
in their return, as property benefited by such improvement, and liable
to assessment therefor; provided, that no property, upon which the assess-
ment originally made for its share of the cost of such improvement shall
have been paid, shall be again assessed, and that reasonable notice and
an opportunity to be heard shall be given to all persons interested before
final ascertainment of the amount of tax to be paid by any such property,
and the said city shall provide for appeals to the Baltimore City Court
by any person or persons interested, including the city itself, from the
decision of the Commissioners for Opening Streets, or any Commissioner
or 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
Appeals.

MUNICIPAL OFFICERS NOT INCLUDED IN ANY DEPART-
MENT.

CENTRAL PURCHASING BUREAU.

Ord. 846 (1926-27).

195B.* The Central Purchasing Bureau is hereby created.

The head of this Bureau shall be the City Purchasing Agent, who shall
direct its operation and who shall perform the duties and exercise the
powers which are herein imposed or conferred upon the Central Purchas-
ing Bureau.

The City Purchasing Agent shall be appointed by the Mayor, with the
consent of the City Council, as provided in Section 25 of the Charter of
Baltimore City, and hold his office as therein provided, except that the
first City Purchasing Agent appointed under the provisions of this ordi-
nance shall be nominated to the Council as soon after this ordinance takes

*Sections 195B-195G were designated as part of Charter by Ordinance No. 846,
approved Oct. 22, 1926, under authority conferred by Ch. 418 of the Acts of 1924,
and under Resolution No. 4, approved Sept. 26, 1924. and approved by the voters
at the November election. 1924. But see Article 11A of Constitution and Graham
v. Joyce, 151 Md. 298. The ordinance repeals all laws inconsistent with its provi-
sions.