FREDERICK COUNTY. 833

other city taxes are collected, or in such manner as may be
prescribed by ordinance of the Mayor of Frederick either be-
fore or after the work shall have been done; provided, that
before the passage by the Mayor and Aldermen of Frederick of
any ordinance requiring the whole or any portion of the costs
to be assessed upon the property, ten days' notice shall be
given by* the Mayor in some newspaper published in said city,
notifying all persons interested therein to appear, and giving
them the opportunity to be heard before the Board of Alder-
men, at such time as shall be provided in said notice, and the
Mayor and Aldermen of Frederick are hereby authorized and
empowered to provide by ordinance for the appointment of a
committee of the Board of Aldermen, or such other person or
persons as they shall appoint, not exceeding three nor less
than one, who shall act as commission or commissioners, to
determine the amount of assessment to be made upon any such
property, under the provisions contained in this Act, and the
ordinance or ordinances passed in pursuance hereof, and after
the commissioner or commissioners so appointed shall have
completed their apportionment of the expenses to be assessed
on the property binding on any street or streets, lane or lanes,
alley or alleys, or portion thereof, they shall give notice by
advertisement inserted twice a week for two successive weeks,
in some daily newspaper published in said city, notifying all
persons interested therein to appear and giving them an oppor-
tunity to be heard before the amounts assessed against them
are finally established by said commissioner or commissioners,
and any person, including the city itself, feeling aggrieved at
the action of said commissioner or commissioners, shall have
the right to appeal 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
commissioners 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 judg-
ment by the Circuit Court for Frederick county.

SEC. 236B. The Mayor and Aldermen of Frederick may, if
they see fit, provide by a general ordinance for the grading,
paving, kerbing and sewering, or for the grading, or paving,
or kerbing, or sewering, or for the regrading, repaving, re-
kerbing and sewering, or for the regrading, or repaving, or re-
kerbing, or resewering, or repaving of any street or streets,
lane or lanes, alley or alleys, or any portion thereof, in Fred-
erick, without the passage of a special ordinance in the par-
ticular case, subject to the provisions and requirements of
Section 236A of this Act, except as otherwise provided in this
section, whenever the owners of a majority of the front feet