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terested therein to appear and giving them an opportunity to
be heard before the amount assessed against them are finally
established by said Commissioner or Commissioners; and any
person, including the town itself, feeling aggrieved at the action
of said Commissioner or Commissioners have the right to ap-
peal to the Circuit Court for Frederick County and to a trial
by jury; provided said appeal be taken within thirty days
after the determination of said Commissioner or Commission-
ers in such case; and an appeal may be taken to the Court of
Appeals by either party, provided said appeal be entered
within thirty days after the rendition of said judgment by the
Circuit Court for Frederick County; and the Burgess and
Commissioners of Middletown may, if they see fit, provide by
a general ordinance for the grading, paving, curbing and sew-
ering, or for the grading, or paving, or curbing, or sewering,
or for the regrading, repaving, recurbing and resewering, or
repaving, or recurbing, or resewering or repairing of any
street or streets, lane or lanes, alley or alleys, or any portion
thereof, in the town of Middletown, without the passage of a
special ordinance in the particular case, subject to the provi-
sions and requirements of this section, except as otherwise
provided herein, whenever the owner of a majority of the front
feet of property binding on such street or streets, lane or lanes,
alley or alleys, or part thereof, shall apply for the same upon
terms and conditions to be prescribed in said 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 bind-
ing upon such street or streets, lane or lanes, alley or alleys,
or any part thereof, and for the collection of such assessment
or other taxes are collected. No notice need be given before
the passage of such general ordinance, and said ordinance shall
provide for the appointment of a Commissioner or Commis-
sioners to determine the amount of the assessment to be made
upon any such property, as provided by said ordinance, and
said Commissioner or Commissioners shall give notice to all
persons interested, as hereinbefore required, before the amounts
assessed against them are finally determined upon, and either
party feeling aggrieved at the action of said Commissioner or
Commissioners shall have the right to appeal as hereinbefore
provided.

SEC. 3. Be it further enacted, That this Act is hereby de-
clared to be an emergency law and necessary for the imme-
diate preservation of the public safety and being passed upon
a yea and nay vote supported by three-fifths of all the mem-