EDWIN WARFIELD, ESQ., GOVERNOR.

669

146 A. The Mayor and Council of Salisbury shall have
the power to provide by ordinance for the establishment and
change from time to time of the grade lines of any street,
lane or alley or part thereof, now or hereafter marked,
located or laid out; to provide by ordinance for grading,
gravelling, shelling, macadamizing, paving and curbing, or
for re-grading, re-gravelling, re-shelling, re-macadamizing, re-
paving and re-curbing of any street, lane or alley in said city or
part thereof now condemned, ceded, opened as a public high-
way, or which may hereafter be condemned, ceded, opened,
widened, straightened or altered according to the laws and
ordinances regulating same, and also for assessing the cost
of any such work not exceeding one-half the costs upon the
property binding upon such streets, lane, alley or highway
or part thereof, according to such rule or basis as it may
determine, and for the collection of said assessment as other
city taxes are collected or in such manner as it may pre-
scribe, either before or after the work shall have been done ;
provided, that before the passage by the Mayor and City
Council of Salisbury of any ordinance requiring any portion
of the cost to be assessed upon the property, ten davs' notice
shall be given in at least one newspaper printed in said city,
and an opportunity shall be afforded to all persons interested
therein to appear and be heard before the said Mayor and

CHAP. 370

Providing for
grading,
paving,
curbing, etc.
of streets,
lanes, etc.

Council of Salisbury; to provide by general ordinance
for grading, macadamizing, paving or curbing, or for re-grad-
ing, re-gravelling, re-shelling, re-macadamizing, re-paving or
Te-curbing of any street, lane, alley or highway, or part
thereof in said city, without the passage of a special ordi-
nance in the particular case, whenever the owners of a
majority of the front feet of property binding on such street,
lane, alley or highway, or part thereof, shall apply for the
same, upon terms and under conditions to be prescribed in
said ordinance, and for the assessment in any such case of the
whole or a ny part of the cost of such work pro rata upon all
abutting property binding upon such streets, lane, alley, as
other city taxes are collected. In any and all cases where
any street, lane, alley, or part thereof, in the city has been
graded, paved or curbed, or re-graded, re-paved or re-curbed,
under any ordinance which provided for assessing of one-
half of the cost of such improvement upon the property
binding upon such street, lane or alley, or part thereof, and

Provide for
re- grading,
etc.