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LAWS OF MARYLAND.

CHAP. 262

ments, the balance to be paid by the said Mayor and Council -
men; that before said commissioners shall proceed to assess
and levy said costs, they shall be given notice by handbills, to
be conspicuously posted along the line of the proposed im-
provement, of the time and place, when and where said com-
missioners will sit, to determine such assessments, at which
time and place all owners of property interested shall be
entitled to appear and be heard in person or by counsel by
said commissioners, on the question of said assessments and
costs. And the Mayor and City Council may provide by
appropriate ordinances for carrying out the provisions of
this section. And the majority in interest of the owners of
undivided interests in any piece of property are to be deemed
the owners thereof for the purposes of this section.

LEVYING FOR GRADING, ETC. — HOW MADE A LIEN.
169. Whenever the Mayor and Councilmen shall levy any
money on the owners of property in said city for grading.

Levying for
grading, etc.

paving, sewering, curbing and guttering and otherwise
improving the streets, lanes or alleys of said city, or any of
them, the sum so levied shall be a lien upon said property,
provided the said Mayor and Councilmen shall, within sixty
days after the completion of such grading, paving, sewering
or otherwise improving, cause to be filed with the clerk of
the Circuit Court for Allegany county, a statement showing
the whole amount expended in such grading, paving, sewer-
ing, curbing and guttering and otherwise improving, the
names of the persons among whom said sum has been
apportioned, and the amount apportioned to each, and a
general description of the land owned by each of said parties,
upon which said sums are intended to operate as a lien, and
said statement shall constitute a lien on said property for
three years and no longer, unless the same shall be revised
and enforced by scire facias, as provided in the next succeed-
ing section.

LIEN FOR GRADING, ETC. — HOW ENFORCEBLE.
170. Said lien shall be enforcible by scire facias, issued
out of the Circuit Court for Allegany county, in the same

Lien for grad-
ing, etc.

manner as mechanics' liens are now enforced by law, and
upon such scire facias the defendant may rely upon any
defense which would render the imposition of such tax void,
or operate as a discharge thereof. The said scire facias may