FRANK BROWN, ESQUIRE, GOVERNOR.

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may prescribe, either before or after the works shall have

been done ; provided that before the passage by either

branch of the council of any ordinance requiring the whole

or any portion of the cost to be assessed upon the property,

ten days' notice shall be given in at least two of the daily

newspapers in said city and an opportunity shall be afforded

to all persons interested therein to appear and be heard be-

fore some appropriate committee of the council, and they

Provide for

may also provide for appeals to the Baltimore city court

appeals

from the decisions of any commissioner or other person or

persons appointed to determine the amount of assessment

to be made upon any property under any such ordinance

and in the trial of such appeal, the practice shall conform

as near as may be to the. practice in the trials of street ap-

peals, including the right of appeal to the Court of Appeals.

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

from the date of its passage.

Effective.

Approved March 28th, 1892.

CHAPTER 220.

AN ACT authorizing and directing H. Fillmore Lank-

ford, clerk of the Circuit Court for Somerset County, to

refund to George M. France the sum of Forty-eight

dollars for illegal fines paid by him, for alleged violations

of the Local Oyster Law of Somerset County in the State

of Maryland.

WHEREAS, George M. France, a citizen of Somerset

County, in the State of Maryland, was fined the sum of

fifty dollars for an alleged violation of the local oyster law

Preamble

of Somerset County, in the State of Maryland, for having

in his possession unculled oysters, by James D. Anderson,

Esq., then a justice of the peace for Somerset County,

which said fine and costs were paid unto the said James D.

Anderson, a justice of the peace, as aforesaid, all of which

said James D. Anderson did pay over to the said H. Fill-

more Lankford, Esq., clerk of the Circuit Court for Somerset

County, who still holds the same ; and,

WHEREAS, after the payment of said fine, as aforesaid,

the Circuit Court, for Somerset County, deciding cases

Preamble.

before them on appeal for a precisely like violation of said

law did hold and decide the law under which the said

George M. France was so fined, as aforesaid, invalid, null,