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LAWS OF MARYLAND.

or alley, or any part thereof, in the city of Baltimore, has

Assess-

been graded, paved or curbed or regraded, repaved or re-

ments for
grading,

curbed under any ordinance which provided for assessing

&c , streets

the whole or any portion of the cost of such improvement

upon the property binding on such street, lane or alley, or

part thereof, and such assessments, or any part thereof,

remain unpaid, it shall be lawful for the mayor and city

council of Baltimore to provide by ordinance for the levy

and collection in such manner as they may deem proper, of

a tax upon all the property binding on any street, lane or

alley, or part thereof which may have been so improved, to

the extent that such property shall have been specially bene-

fitted by such improvement ; provided that no property upon

which the assessment originally made for its share of the

cost of such improvement shall have been paid, shall be

Notice.

again assessed, and that reasonable notice and an oppor-

tunity to be heard shall be given to all persons interested

before the final ascertainment of the amount of tax to be

paid by any such property ; and the said mayor and city

council shall provide for appeals to the Baltimore City Court

by any person or persons interested, including the mayor and

Appeal.

city council themselves from the decision of any commissioner

or commissioners or other persons appointed to determiue the

amount or amounts of such special taxes or assessments ;

and in the trial of such appeals the practice shall conform

as near as may be to the practice in the trial of street appeals,

including the right of appeal to the Court of Appeals.

Effective

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

from the date of its passage.

Approved April 1st. 1892.