1100 LAWS OF MARYLAND.

demned, 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 assessing the cost of any
work not exceeding one-half the costs upon any property bind-
ing upon streets, lanes, alley or highway or part thereof, ac-
cording to the front-foot rule of apportionment of the costs of
improvement equitable (bases) as it may determine, and for the
collection of said assessments 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, re-
macadamizing, repaving or recurbing of any street, lane, alley
or highway or part thereof in said city, whenever the owners of
a majority of the front footage of 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 ordinances, 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 im-
provement or equitable basis upon all abutting property bind-
ing 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 of the
whole of the costs of such improvement upon the property bind-
ing upon such street, lane or alley or part thereof, remains un-
paid, 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
improvements; provided, that no property upon which the as-
sessments originally made for its share of the cost of such im-
provement shall have been paid shall be again assessable. Any
part of the cost assessed to the city under the provisions of this
section shall be paid out of the special fund, if one is provided,
or out of the general fund of the city; provided that before the
passage by the Mayor and Council of Crisfield of any ordinance
under this section ten days' notice at least shall be given in one
of the newspapers published in said city of the day when any
such ordinance is provided to be passed by the Council, and an
opportunity shall be afforded to all persons interested therein
to appear and be heard before said Council; and before any as-
sessment made by the Mayor and Council or its authorized