100 LAWS OF MARYLAND. [CH. 55

companies occupying said streets with its tracks to grade,
make and pave and to regrade, remake, and repave the space
between its rails and two feet on the outside thereof and to
maintain the same providing a penalty for the failure of
said railway companies to comply with the provisions of
said ordinance applicable thereto.

SECTION 1. Be it enacted by the General Assembly of
Maryland, That the Mayor and Council of Hagerstown, shall
have and are hereby vested, with full power and authority to
provide by ordinance for grading, making, paving, concreting,
macadamizing with or without tarvia or oil thereon and curb-
ing; and for regrading, remaking, repaving, reconcreting, re-
macadamizing, with or without tarvia or oil thereon and re-
curbing of any street, highway, lane or alley in Hagerstown
or part thereof, now condemned, ceded or opened as a public
highway, or which may hereafter be condemned, ceded, opened,
widened, straightened or altered, according to the laws and
ordinances of Hagerstown regulating the same, the materials
to be used for such work to be set forth in said ordinance; and
also, for assessing the costs of any such work and materials
used in whole or in part pro rata, upon the property abutting
or binding on such street, highway, lane or alley or part there-*
of, and for collecting such assessment as other City taxes are
collected.

SEC. 2. Be it enacted, That the said Mayor and Council
shall also have, and are hereby vested, with power and author-
ity to provide by general ordinance for grading, making, pav-
ing, concreting, macadamizing, with or without tarvia or oil
thereon, and curbing; and for regrading, remaking, repaving,
reconcreting, remacadamizing, with or without tarvia or oil
thereon, and recurbing of any street, highway, lane or alley
or part thereof, in Hagerstown without the passage of a special
ordinance in the particular case, whenever the owners of a
majority of the front feet of property abutting or binding on
such street, highway, lane or alley, or part thereof, shall apply
for the same to the Mayor and Council upon terms and under
conditions, with such materials to be prescribed in said general
ordinance, and for the assessment in any such case of the costs
of such work and the materials used, in whole or in part pro
rata, upon all the property binding or abutting upon such
street, highway or alley, or part thereof, and for the collection
of such assessment as other City taxes are collected.