262 BALTIMORE COUNTY. [ART. 3.

weeks, that the footways or sidewalks in front of the ground or
premises referred to and specified in said advertisements are out
of order or in want of repair, and to cause to be published a
notice of their intentions, or by personal service of said notice on
the owner to have said footways or sidewalks paved, repaved or
repaired, as the case may be; and in case said footways or side-
walks in front of said grounds or premises as set out in said
notice shall not be paved, repaved or repaired within the time
specified in said notice published as aforesaid, the said county
commissioners shall appoint one examiner or three examiners, as
the case may be, to take charge of and have said footways or
sidewalks paved, repaved or repaired; but the said examiner or
examiners, before proceeding so to do, shall make an estimate of
the probable cost of said paving, repaving or repairing, including
all the expenses attending the said matter; and said costs and
expenses shall be collected in manner following, viz: the whole
amount estimated by the said examiner or examiners to be neces-
sary shall be assessed pro rata on all the ground bounding and
fronting on said footways and sidewalks, and except when said
footways or sidewalks cross open streets or thoroughfares, which
shall be paid by the county commissioners of Baltimore county
out of the general tax levy of said county; the same shall be a
lien thereon until paid, and shall be collected as provided for the
collections of other assessments for the opening of streets, ave-
nues or alleys in Baltimore county. After all the assessments
shall have been collected by said examiner or examiners, he or
they shall advertise for sealed proposals for the grading, paving
or repaving said footways or sidewalks; and said advertisement
shall be in the same manner as provided for in this sub-title of
this article regulating the opening and condemning of streets
and avenues; and the awarding of the contract and the grading
and construction of said footways or sidewalks shall be regulated
as provided therein.

1688, ch. 646.

245. The county commissioners shall cause a copy of the
notice or order aforesaid to be given or served on the owner of
the lot in front of which a footway or sidewalk is required to be
filled up, dug down, paved, repaved or repaired, in the following
manner, viz: the said order or copy thereof, may be left at any