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BALTIMORE COUNTY. [ART. 3.

nue or alley, or the part thereof to be paved, equal in
amount to the whole expense of regulating, paving,
furnishing and setting curb and gutter stones on said
street, avenue or alley; and it shall be the duty of said
street commissioners to assess and lay the said tax upon
the owner or owners of property upon each side of said
street, avenue or alley or square, or part thereof to be

How tax levied
and assessed

paved, and the said tax shall be assessed and levied
upon and collected from the owner or owners of said
property, and said tax shall be a lien upon said prop-
erty, and shall be collected by said street commissioners
as county taxes are now collected, and in no case what-

County not to
be responsible.

ever shall Baltimore county be made responsible for
the opening, grading or paving, or any expenses attend-
ing the same, and a clause to that effect shall be inserted
in all contracts to pave, open or grade any street, ave-
nue or alley, and the said street commissioners, imme-
diately after making said assessment, shall cause a plat
of said street, avenue or alley to be made, and shall

Report of
county com-
missioners.

return the same, together with a full report of the
name or names of the owner or owners owning the
property fronting or bounding on said street, avenue or
alley, and the amount levied or assessed upon each one
of them, the said owner or owners, to the county com-
missioners of Baltimore county.

Ibid. s. 6.
Party ag-
grieved may
object to ratifi-
cation.

241. Where any owner or owners residing on any
street, avenue or alley to be opened or paved, shall feel
aggrieved by the assessment and apportionment of dam-
ages by said street commissioners under the fourth sec-
tion of this act, or shall feel aggrieved by the assess-
ment and levy of the tax for the grading, paving,
graveling or curbing of any street, avenue or alley,
under the fifth section of this act, he shall file his
objections to the ratification and confirmation of said
report or returns by the county commissioners within
twenty days after the said return shall have been made,
and it shall be the duty of said county commissioners
to hear and determine said objections, and to alter or
amend said return, as made by said street commission-
ers, if, in their judgment, the return is erroneous or