1380 LAWS OF MARYLAND. [CH. 680

what amount of value in damages will be caused thereby, and
what amount the contemplated improvement will cost, and they
shall have power to provide for the payment of the damages
and costs aforesaid by levying and assessing the same generally
upon the whole of the assessable property of said town, or
specially upon the assessable value of the property benefited
thereby, or in their discretion, partly upon the property bene-
fited, and balance upon the whole of the assessable property of
said town, and the said commissioners shall have the power
to ascertain and determine what amount of benefits will there-
by accrue to any lot or parcel of ground adjacent to said street,
alley or side walk, or the owner thereof, and which lot or par-
cel of ground or lot thereof the owner ought to pay, and they
shall on the day fixed by said ordinance and within three days
inclusive of said meeting, so ascertain and determine and their
decision in writing shall be filed with the clerk, and shall be
by him recorded in a book kept for that purpose, and any pro-
prietor who shall feel himself aggrieved by any such action of
the commissioners, shall be entitled to an appeal at any time
within thirty days after the decision of the commissioners shall
be filed, as aforesaid, to the Circuit Court for Harford County,
and such appeal shall be heard and determined as appeals from
Justices of the Peace are now heard, and all benefits so assessed
against any lot or parcel of ground or the owner or occupant
thereof, shall be a lien against said lot or parcel of ground,
from the time said commissioners shall finally order the work
contemplated to be begun, and it shall be the duty of the said
commissioners to certify under the seal of the corporation, to
the bailiff the amount of benefits so assessed who shall forth-
with enter the same on his books against the property so
assessed, and the said bailiff of said town, shall collect such
benefits as other town taxes are collected, provided that no
property shall be sold for the payment of benefits until after
the expiration of six months from the date of the passage of
the ordinance by said commissioners.

14. All ordinances passed in pursuance of the above sec-
tions, in addition to being recorded as hereinbefore provided,
shall be printed and posted in the most public places in said
town, as soon as possible after the enactment thereof.

15. That all property located within the corporate limits
of said town and all property owned by residents of said town
or corporations having their principal office therein, assessable
for the purpose of State and County taxes, as now or hereafter