CARROLL COUNTY. 695

paving and curbing, or the regrading, repaving and recurbing,
of any streeet, alley and lane, or part thereof, in the corporate
limits of said city of Westminster, now condemned, ceded or
opened as a public highway, or which hereafter may be con-
demned, ceded, opened, widened, straightened or altered, ac-
cording to the ordinances regulating the same; to lay flag-
stones across said streets, alleys and lanes, whenever neces-
sary ; to provide of what material the streets, alleys and lanes,
sidewalks, gutters and curbs, in said city, shall be paved and
curbed, and how the same shall be done and kept in good re-
pair. They may pass all ordinances necessary for grading and
regrading, paving, repaving and repairing of the streets, alleys,
lanes and footways of the said city; and compel, by fine or
otherwise, the owner or proprietor of any lot to pave or re-
pave, grade or regrade or repair the footways, curbs and gut-
ters fronting thereon, at the expense of said proprietor or
owner, in whole or in part; and if any proprietor or owner of a
lot shall neglect to grade and pave, or repave or repair the
footways ana gutters of said lot, within thirty days after no-
tice has been given by the Mayor or Street Commissioners of
said city, either by publication in a newspaper in the city of
Westminster not less than four consecutive times, or by service
of the said notice on th'e proprietor or owner, requiring the
same to be done, the Mayor and Common Council may direct
the Street Commissioner to cause the same to be done at the
expense of the owner or proprietor of said lot, Which expense,
together with an addition thereto of ten per cent, for the ex-
pense of collection, shall be a lien on said property until paid,
and shall be collected by the tax collector of said city in the
same manner that ordinary taxes are collected, or by the Mayor
and Common Council as other debts of like amount are recov-
ered in this State by law; provided, however, that the addi-
tional ten per cent, for the expense of collection, specified
above, shall not be charged except in cases wherein the said
Mayor and Common Council are obliged to resort to legal pro-
ceedings to make said collection.

STREETS—ASSESSMENT FOR PAVING.

SEC. 232. Whenever the owners of two-thirds of the linear
feet of property binding on any public street, square, avenue
or other city thoroughfare, or part thereof, shall petition in
writing to the Mayor and Common Council of Westminster to
have such public street, square, avenue or other city thorough-
fare, or part thereof, macadamized, telfordized, paved, renewed
or remade, the Mayor and Common Council of Westminster
may by ordinance provide for such street, square, avenue or
other city thoroughfare, or part thereof, being macadamized,