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appropriate disposition of such cards. Exceptions may be taken
and appeal allowed as provided in said Section 27, and such
appeal shall be taken, heard and decided as provided in said
section.

SEC. 2. And be it further enacted, That this Act shall take
effect June 1, 1937.

Approved May 28, 1937.

CHAPTER 10.

AN ACT to repeal and re-enact, with amendments, Section
149 of Article 6 of the Code of Public Local Laws of Mary-
land (Flack's Edition, 1930), as enacted by Acts of 1916,
Chapter 692, Section 95A.

SECTION 1. Be it enacted by the General Assembly of Mary-
land, That Section 149 of Article 6 of the Code of Public Local
Laws of Maryland (Flack's Edition, 1930), as enacted by Acts
of 1916, Chapter 692, Section 95A, be, and the same is hereby
repealed and re-enacted, with amendments, to read as follows:

149. The Commissioners of Denton are hereby authorized
and empowered, whenever in their judgment the public inter-
ests and conveniences require it, to pass ordinances for the
improvement of the public streets in said town, by grading and
paving with concrete or other durable material, to establish
grades for said streets and to construct curbs and gutters,
to prescribe the material of which said streets shall be built
or improved and to assess the cost and expense thereof a sum
not to exceed one dollar and fifty cents ($1. 50) per
lineal foot upon the owner or owners of the abutting
property, whether same be owned by an individual, firm,
corporation or by Caroline County, which said cost and
expense as assessed by said Commissioners of Denton shall
be due and payable within ten days after said streets shall
have been completed, built or improved along said abutting
property and said costs and expense as assessed aforesaid
shall be a lien upon said abutting property, and interest shall
be chargeable on said assessment from the time same is due
and payable, and all assessments that are not paid when due
aforesaid shall be collectible by an action at law; provided
however, that said Commissioners may provide that such
assessments shall be due and payable to the treasurer of the
town in the following installments: one-third when the work
is begun, one-third when the work is approximately one-half