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appeal, and their decision in the premises shall be final, and the

assessment so amended and corrected shall be applicable to all

taxes authorized under the authority of the corporation.

SEC. 29. Whenever said commissioners shall by ordinance direct

any street, alley or sidewalk within the limits of said town to be

opened, widened, narrowed, piked, paved, repaired, extended,

stopped up or discontinued in whole or in part, they shall upon

a certain day to be named in said ordinance and within three days.

inclusive of the day of meeting proceed to ascertain what amount

To open

of value in damages will be caused thereby and what amount the

streets.

contemplated improvement will cost, and they shall have power to

provide for the payment of the damages and costs aforesaid by

levying and assessing the same generally upon the whole of the

assessable property of said town or specially upon the assessable

value of the property benefitted thereby, or in their discretion

partly upon the property benefitted and balance upon the .whole

of the assessable property of said town, and the said commis-

sioners shall have the power to ascertain and determine what

amount of benefits will thereby accrue to any lot or parcel of

ground adjacent to said street, alley or sidewalk or the owner

thereof, and which said lot or parcel of ground or the owner

thereof ought to pay, and they shall on the day fixed by said ordi-

nance and within three days inclusive of said meeting, so ascer-

tain and determine, and their decision in writing shall be filed

with the secretary and shall be by him recorded in a book kept for

that purpose, and any proprietor who may feel himself aggrieved

by such action of the commissioners shall be entitled to an appeal

at any time within thirty days after the decision of the commis-

sioners shall be filed as aforesaid to the circuit court of Harford

Appeals.

county, and such appeal shall be heard and determined as appeals

from justices of the peace are now heard, and all benefits so assessed

against any lot or parcel of ground or to the owner or occupant

thereof shall be a lien against said lot or parcel of ground from the

time said commissioners shall finally order the work contemplated

to be began, and it shall be the duty of said commissioners to certify
under the seal of the corporation to the tax collector the amount

of benefits so assessed, who shall forthwith enter the same on his.

books against the property so assessed, and the said tax collector of

said town shall collect such benefits as other town taxes are col-

lected; provided that no property shall be sold for the payment of

benefits until after the expiration of six months from the date of

the passage of the ordinance by said commissioners.

Effective

SEC. 2. And be it enacted, That this act shall take effect from,

the date of its passage.

Approved April 3, 1890.