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superintendent, who shall ascertain the proportion of the
expenses chargeable to each proprietor or owner, and said
Mayor and Councilmen may collect the same as other debts
due the city, or may distrain the personal property of said
proprietor or owner at any time when the ascertainment of
the proportion of such proprietor or owner shall be made by
the street superintendent; provided, that twenty days' pre-
vious notice in writing shall be given to the said proprietor
or owner of the time and place at which the amount of his
or her assessment is to be fixed, and any such owner shall
be heard at such time, and said owner shall also be entitled
to a ten days' notice before suit is brought, or distress pro-
ceedings instituted. This provision to apply to paved and
unpaved streets.
172. That in any and all cases where a street, lane or
alley, or any part thereof in the city of Frostburg, has been
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Commission-
ers to be ap-
pointed to
make assess-
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graded, paved or curbed, or regraded, repaved or recur bed
under any ordinance, whether defective or not, which pro-
vided for assessing the whole or any part of the cost of
such improvement upon the property binding upon such
street, lane or alley, or part thereof, and such assessments,
or any part thereof, shall remain unpaid, it shall be lawful
for the Mayor and Councilmen of Frostburg to provide by
ordinance for the appointment of commissioners, to assess
the value of such improvements and for the levy and collec-
tion, in such manner as they may deem proper, of a tax
upon any of 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
benefited 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upon which the assessment originally made for its share of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
again assessed, and that reasonable notice and an opportunity
to be heard shall be given to all persons interested before a
final ascertainment of the amount of the tax to be paid by
any such property. Any person feeling himself aggrieved by
the action of the commissioners, so to be appointed as afore-
said, shall set out in writing the specific grounds of his
objections and file them with the commissioners, and shall
have the right to appeal to the Circuit Court of Allegany
county by merely filing an application in writing to the
commissioners, who shall immediately send a transcript of
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