EMERSON C. HARRINGTON, GOVERNOR. 615

SECTION 1. Be it enacted by the General Assembly of Mary-
land, That Section 233 of Article 24 of the Code of Public
Local Laws, title "Worcester County," subtitle "Pocomoke
City," as codified by John W. Staton and legalized by Chapter
405 of the Acts of the General Assembly of Maryland, passed
at its January Session of 1914, be and the same is hereby re-
pealed and re-enacted with amendments so as to read as follows:

233. The Mayor and Council may have the sidewalk and
gutters of any street, lane, alley or thoroughfare of Pocomoke
City or any part or either side of any such street, lane or alley
paved or repaved with such material and in such manner as
they think proper. They may also have the sidewalk of any
street, lane, alley or thoroughfare or any part of either or both
sides thereof raised or lowered to such grade as they may think
proper and paved or repaved with such material and in such
manner as they may deem best. Whenever they deem it expe-
dient, right and requisite that the sidewalks or gutters of any
street, lane, alley or thoroughfare shall be paved or repaved,
wholly or in part, or that the sidewalk of any street, lane, alley
or thoroughfare or any part of either or both sides thereof be
raised or lowered to such grade as they may think proper and
paved or repaved, wholly or in part, they may pass an ordi-
nance requiring the said paving or repaving, or raising or low-
ering the grade and paving or repaving to be done under the
provisions of this section and shall notify the parties owning
the property in front of which the improvement is to be made
and arrange with them for the payment of the expense thereof,
but if no satisfactory arrangement can be made then they shall
by order appoint three discreet and disinterested residents of
the town, over the age of twenty-five years, as adjusters. The
adjusters shall make a careful examination of the real and
leasehold property in front of which the proposed improvement
is to be made and also of the other or leasehold property on
said street, lane, alley or thoroughfare, or in the near vicinity
thereof which may be benefited by the proposed improvement.
They shall take into consideration all the circumstances perti-
nent to their inquiry that may be brought to their knowl-
edge or that may be open to their observation and among
other things the benefits the owners of the property in front
of which the proposed improvement is to be made have re-
ceived from the pavement previously laid on said street, lane,
alley or thoroughfare, and they shall decide whether the owner
of the property in front of which the proposed improvement
is to be made should bear all the expenses of making the same