JOHN WALTER SMITH, ESQ., GOVERNOR.

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hereby added to article eleven of the Code of Public Local
Laws of Maryland, title " Frederick County," sub-title " Fred-
erick," to follow after section 236, to be known as section
236 A, and to read as follows :

CHAP. 293.

New section
added.

Section 236 A. The Mayor and Alderman shall when
requested in writing by the owners of a majority of the front
feet of the property on any block of any street in said city
cause the said block to be regraded, recurbed, repaved and
sewered with material other than cobble stones in the best,
most substantial and economical manner, and shall appoint
commissioners, who shall be three in number, to assess whether
any and what amount in value of damages will be caused
thereby for which the owner or possessor of any property on
said block of any street ought to be compensated, and to
assess and levy upon said property owners, according to the
number of front feet owned by them, such proportion of said
cost, not exceeding one-half of the same of said regrading,
recurbing, repaving and sewering, the balance to be 'paid by

Street to be
regraded, etc.
with
material
other than
cobble stones.

the city ; provided, however, that before any such regrading,
recurbing, repaving and sewering shall be done, the Mayor
and Alderman 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 effected by the same where such owners are residents of
" Frederick County ;" and provided further, that before such
commissioners shall proceed to assess such damages and costs
they shall serve personal notice upon each 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 commissoners will sit to determine said
assessment, 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 ;

Notice to be
given.

and any person feeling himself aggrieved at the action of the
said commissioners shall have a right to appeal to the Circuit
Court for Frederick County ; provided, said appeal be taken
within sixty days after the final action as determination of
said commissioners in such case, and the Mayor and Alderman
shall have power to enact all ordinance from time to time
necessary as proper for the exercise of the powers granted in
this section.
SEC. 2. And be it enacted, That this Act shall take effect
from the date of its passage.
Approved April 8, 1902.

Right
of appeal.