230 LAWS OF MARYLAND. [CH. 107

Article, and to be known and designated as Section 359-C, to
read as follows:

Section 359-C. The Burgess and Commissioners of Middle-
town are hereby authorized and empowered whenever, in then
judgment, the public interests or convenience require it, to
provide by ordinance for the grading, paving, curbing and sew-
ering, or for the grading, or paving, or curbing, or sewering,
and for the regrading, repaving, recurbing, resewering, or for
the regrading, repaving, or recurbing, or resewering in such
manner, at such time and with such material as they shall see
fit, of any street or streets, lane or lanes, alley or alleys, or
any portion thereof, in the town of Middletown, now con-
demned, ceded, opened as a public highway, or which may be
hereafter condemned, ceded, opened, widened, straightened or
altered according to the laws and ordinances relating to the
same; and also for assessing the costs of any such work in
whole or in part upon the property binding upon such street
or streets, lane or lanes, alley or alleys, or part thereof, accord-
ing to such rule or basis as they may determine, and for col-
lecting said assessment as other town taxes are collected, or in
such manner as may be prescribed by ordinance of the Burgess
and Commissioners of Middletown, either before or after the
work shall have been done; provided that before the passage
by the Burgess and Commissioners of any ordinance requiring
the whole or any portion of the costs to be assessed upon the
property, ten days' notice shall be given by the Burgess in
some newspaper published in said town, notifying all persons
interested to appear, and giving them the opportunity to be
heard before the Burgess and Commissioners at such time as
shall be provided in said notice; and the Burgess and Commis-
sioners of Middletown are hereby authorized and empowered
to provide by ordinance for the appointment of a Committee
of the Burgess and Commissioners, or such other person or
persons as they shall appoint, not exceeding three, who shall
act as Commissioner or Commissioners, to determine the
amount of the assessment to be made upon any such property
under the provisions of this Act; and the ordinance or ordi-
nances passed in pursuance hereof, and after the Commission-
er or Commissioners so appointed shall have completed their,
apportionment of the expenses to be assessed upon the prop-
erty binding on any street or streets, lane or lanes, alley or
alleys, or portions thereof, they shall give notice by advertise-
ment inserted once a week for two successive weeks in some
newspaper published in said town, notifying all persons in-