696 LAWS OF MARYLAND.

telfordized, paved, renewed or remade, and by such ordinance
assess not more than two-thirds of the cost of such work or.
improvement, pro rata, upon all the property binding upon
such street, square, avenue or other city thoroughfare, or part
thereof so improved, according to the linear feet of property
binding upon the same; and the remaining cost of such work
or improvement to be paid by the Mayor and Common Coun-
cil of Westminster; provided, that after the introduction of
such ordinance and before its final passage the Mayor and
Common Council of Westminster shall give public notice of the
said ordinance, and that any person interested therein will be
heard upon any matter relating thereto, by the Mayor and
Common Council of Westminster, at a public hearing to be
held at the time and place designated in said notice, which
shall be published in one of the newspapers published in West-
minster for two successive weeks before said hearing; and in
addition to such notice the Mayor and Common Council may
provide for such other notice to and hearing of the owners of
property affected as it may deem requisite and proper.

SEC. 233. The Mayor and Common Council of Westminster
may, from time to time, by ordinance provide for the submis-
sion to the qualified voters of Westminster, at any annual mu-
nicipal election held in Westminster, or at any special election
called for that purpose by the Mayor and Common Council, the
question of renewing, remaking, repaving and grading any
specified street, square, avenue or other city thoroughfare, or
part thereof, and the payment of-not more than two-thirds of
the cost thereof by the abutting property on such streets, pro
rata, according to the linear feet of property bounding there-
on, the remaining cost of such work or improvement to be paid
by the Mayor and Common Council of Westminster; and if
two-thirds of the vote cast at such election shall be in favor
of the said specified improvement, the Mayor and Common
Council of Westminster shall by ordinance provide for such re-
newing, remaking, paving and grading of any such specified
street, square, avenue or other city thoroughfare, or part there-
of, and the payment of not more than two-thirds of the cost
thereof, as specified by such ordinance, shall be assessed pro
rata upon all the property binding upon such street, square,
avenue or other city thoroughfare, or part thereof so improved,
according to the linear feet of property binding upon the
same; and the remaining cost of such improvement or work to
be paid by the Mayor and Common Council of Westminster;
provided, that the Mayor and Common Council of Westmin-
ster shall give public notice of the passage of the ordinance
submitting this question to vote, as aforesaid, by publishing