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LAWS OF MARYLAND.

written notice personally upon the parties to be affected by

said proceedings, and allowing them to be heard before any

such proceedings are had.

68 A. The mayor and city council may, when requested

in writing by the owners of a majority of the front feet of

May re-

the property on any street or alley, or parts thereof, in said

grade and

city, cause the same to be regraded, repaved, recurbed,

repair
streets, &c.

sewered or otherwise improved, and with such materials as

such majority of owners shall apply for in such request, and

may appoint commissioners as provided for in section 66 to

assess and levy upon said lot owners, according to the

number of front feet owned by them, such proportion of said

cost, not exceeding two-thirds of the same, the balance to be

paid by the city ; provided however, that before any such

regrading, repaving, recurbing or other improvements shall

be done, the mayor and city council shall give at least thirty

days' notice of any such application, by advertisement in at

least two newspapers published in said city and by personal

notice in writing, served twenty days before, upon each of

such owners of property to be affected by the same, where

such owners are residents of Alleghany County ; and pro-

vided further, that before such commissioners shall proceed

to assess said costs, they shall serve personal notice upon

such resident owners and by publication in two newspapers

against non-resident owners giving in each case, twenty

days' notice of the time and place where said commissioners

will sit to determine said assessments, at which time and

place, all such owners of property shall be entitled to appear

and be heard by said commissioners on the question of said

assessment and costs, and the mayor and city council may

provide by appropriate ordinances for carrying out the pro-

visions of this section.

71. The mayor and city council shall cause to be main-

Registra-

tained a registration of the legal voters in the several wards

tion of
voters

of said city, and the registration made under the authority

of existing law, shall, together with such additions, changes

and alteration s as anay be or become necessary, constitute

such registration ; said registration shall be made and cor-

rected in the manner provided in the .general registration

law of the State, and shall specify the residence of the voters

on each street, lane and alley, and such registration shall

be essential to the right of voting at any election under this

charter, but shall not be conclusive evidence of .such -rights

to vote, said city, council shall annually on or before the

second Monday in April in each year, elect two persons of

opposite politics to act as officers of registration, who shall

sit as officers of registration at the council chamber at