1476 LAWS OF MARYLAND. [CH. 680

Circuit Court for Harford County, and said Court shall hear
testimony and review the decision.

Section 327. The Mayor and City Council, once in every
seven years, or oftener if they think proper, shall appoint two
assessors, who shall value and assess the property in said cor-
poration, in the same manner and with like authority as county
assessors; but in assessing any of the lands within the limits
of the City, which may be occupied and used as farms, or
may be part or parts of farms, such lands shall be valued and
assessed as lots of ten acres, with the buildings and improve-
ments thereon, and not by the number of acres in said farms
or parts of farms; and said assessors shall make oath before
the said Mayor and City Council that they will faithfully and
impartially make the said assessment to the best of their judg-
ment; and they shall be paid for their services out of the taxes
levied as aforesaid.

Section 328. Any person may appeal from the assessment
of the assessors to the said Mayor and City Council, who may
make such deduction therefrom as they may deem just, and
they may add thereto the value of any property which may
have been omitted in the assessment, and all buildings and
improvements, and all property acquired or created since said
assessment; and they shall have power to make transfers of
such property as may have changed owners since said assess-
ment.

Section 329. If any person shall excavate any lot, or part
thereof, within the limits of said City, for the purpose of
obtaining moulding sand or otherwise, to the depth of two
feet or more, and the said lot, or part thereof, shall remain
uncovered, it shall be the duty of such person to make and
keep in good repair, good and sufficient underdrains that will
carry off all water that may collect and would otherwise re-
main in them, in the part thereof so excavated; and said
underdrains shall be well covered and secured, so as not to
endanger or incommode the public travel or other proper use
of any street or alley through which the same shall pass.

Section 330. In the excavation of any lot, or part thereof,
as aforesaid, to a depth of two feet or more, adjoining any of
the streets or alleys in the said City, it shall be the duty of the
owner of such lot to erect and keep in repair, good and suffi-
cient walls or fences along such streets and alleys, or parts
thereof, where such excavation so adjoins, so as effectively to