262 LAWS OF MARYLAND.

ing Streets or any Commissioner or Commissioners, or other
person or persons appointed to determine the amount of assess-
ment to be made upon any property under any such ordinance;
and in the trial of such appeal the practice shall conform as near
as may be to the practice in the trials of street appeals, includ-
ing the right of appeal to the Court of Appeals. To provide by
general ordinance, subject to the provisions and requirements
of section 85 of this Article, for the grading, graveling, shelling,
paving or curbing, or for the regrading, regraveling, reshelling,
repaving or recurbing of any street, lane or alley, or part
thereof, in said City, without the passage of a special ordinance
in the particular case, whenever the owners of a majority of the
front feet of property binding on such street, lane or alley, or
part thereof, shall apply for the same, upon terms and under
conditions to be prescribed in the same general ordinance, and
for the assessment in any such case of the cost of such work,
in whole or in part, pro rata, upon all the property binding
upon such street, lane or alley, or part thereof, and for the col-
lection of such assessment as other City taxes are collected. In
any and all cases where any street, lane or alley, or any part
thereof, in the City, has been graded, paved or curbed, or re-
graded, repaved or recurbed, under any ordinance which pro-
vided for assessing the whole or any portion 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, remain unpaid, it shall be lawful for the City to provide
by ordinance for the levy and collection in such manner as it
may deem proper, of a tax upon all 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 spe-
cially benefited by such improvement, provided that no prop-
erty upon which the assessment originally made for its share of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 opportu-
nity to be heard shall be given to all persons interested before
the final ascertainment of the amount of tax to be paid by
any such property, and the said City shall provide for appeals
to the Baltimore City Court by any person or persons inter-
ested, including the City itself, from the decision of the
Commissioners for Opening Streets or any Commissioner or