636 LAWS OF MARYLAND.

both, whereby assessments upon property benefited by such
improvements were authorized.

SECTION 1. Be it enacted by the General Assembly of Mary-
land, That in any and all cases where a street, lane or alley, or
part thereof, situated in the city of Baltimore, has been opened,
widened, straightened or closed by the Mayor and City Council
of Baltimore, or by any commissioner or commissioners, or
other person or persons, acting either under the provisions of
an Act of the General Assembly of Maryland, or of an ordi-
nance of the Mayor and City Council of Baltimore, or both,
whereby authority was granted to assess the whole or any por-
tion of the costs of such improvement upon property benefited
thereby, and such assessments, or any part thereof remain un-
paid, it shall be lawful for the Mayor and City Council of
Baltimore to provide by ordinance for levy and collection, in
such manner as it may deem proper, of a tax to the extent of
such special benefit upon all the property, which the said Mayor
and City Council of "Baltimore, or the said commissioner or
commissioners, or other person or persons above mentioned,
have designated in their return, as property benefited by such
improvement, and liable to assessment therefor; 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no property, upon which the assessment originally made for its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 op-
portunity to be heard shall be given to all persons interested
before 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 Com-
missioners for Opening Streets, or any commissioner or com-
missioners, or other persons appointed to determine the amount
or amounts of such special taxes or assessments, and in the
trial of such appeals the practice shall conform as near as
may be to the practice in the trial of street appeals, including
the right of appeal to the Court of Appeals.

SEC. 2. And be it enacted, That this Act shall take effect
from the date of its passage.

Approved March 30, 1908.

CHAPTER 168.

AN ACT to add a new paragraph, headed "Distributing Poles
and Other Similar Structures," to section 6, sub-section
"Streets, Bridges and Highways," of article 4, entitled "City
of Baltimore," of the Public Local Laws of Maryland; said