1120 LAWS OF MARYLAND.

Mayor and Council may proceed in the same way as if said
damages had been paid to the person or persons themselves,

158P. And be it enacted, That the Mayor and Council of
Salisbury shall have power to provide by ordinance for the
establishment and change from time to time of the grade lines
of any street, lane, alley or part thereof now or hereafter
marked, located or laid out; to provide by ordinance for grad-
ing, graveling, shelling, macadamizing, paving and curbing or
for regrading, regraveling, reshelling, remacadamizing, repav-
ing and recurbing of any street, lane or alley in said city or
part thereof noAv condemned, ceded, dedicated or opened as a
public highway, or which may hereafter be condemned, ceded,
dedicated, 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
cost upon any property binding upon such street, lane, alley
or highway or part thereof, according to the front foot rule
of apportionment of the cost of improvement or equitable 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
prescribe, either before or after the work shall have been done.
To provide by ordinance for grading, macadamizing, paving or
curbing or for regrading, regraveling, reshelling, remacad-
amizing, repaving or recurbing of any street, lane, alley or high-
way or part thereof in said city, whenever the owners of a
majority of the front feet or 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 ordi-
nance, and for the assessment in any such case of the whole
or any part of the costs of such work pro rata according to
the front foot rule of apportionment of the cost of the improve-
ments or equitable basis upon all abutting property binding
upon such street, lane or alley, and for the collection of such
assessment as other city taxes are collected, or in such manner
as it may prescribe. In any and all cases where any street,
lane, alley or part thereof in the city has been graded, paved or
curbed, or regraded, repaved or recurbed under any ordinance
which provided for assessing of any portion or the whole of
the costs of such improvement upon the property binding upon
such street, lane or alley or part thereof, and such assessment
or any part thereof remaining 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 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,.