EMERSON C. HARRINGTON, GOVERNOR. 931

improvement on an equitable basis upon all abutting property,
binding upon such street, lane or alley, and for the collection
of such assessment as other city taxes are collected or in such
manner as it may prescribe. In any and all cases where any
street, lane, alley or part thereof in the City has been graded,
paved or curbed, or regraded, repaved or recurbed, under any
ordinance which provided for assessing any portion or the
whole of the costs of such improvement upon the property bind-
ing upon such street, lane or alley or part thereof^ and any part
or the whole oi such costs remain unpaid, it shall be lawful for
the city to provide by ordinance for the levy and collection in
such manner, as it may deem proper, of a tax upon all property
binding on any street, lane, or alley or any part thereof, which
may have been so improved to the extent that such property
shall have been specially benefited by such improvements; pro-
vided, that no property upon which the assessments originally
made for its share of the cost of such improvement shall have
been paid, shall be again assessable. Any part of the cost as-
sessed to the City under the provisions of this section shall be
paid out of the special fund, if one is provided, or out of the
general fund of the city; provided that before the passage by
the Mayor and Council of Crisfield of any ordinance under
this section ten days' notice at least shall be given in one of
the newspapers published in said city of the day when any such
ordinance is proposed to be passed by the Council, and an op-
portunity shall be afforded to all persons interested therein to
appear and be heard before said Council; and before any as-
sessment made by the Mayor and Council or its authorized
Agent under any ordinance passed under the provisions of this
section shall be finally ratified ten days' notice at least shall be
given in one newspaper published in said city of the time when
said assessment is to be finally ratified, and an opportunity
shall be afforded all persons interested therein to appear and be
heard. Any person interested feeling aggrieved by the pas-
sage of any ordinance or any assessment made in pursuance
thereof under the provisions of this section shall have the right
within ten days after the passage of an ordinance or final rati-
fication of any assessment of an appeal to the Circuit Court for
Somerset County.

Section 100. The Mayor and Council of Crisfield shall once
a month meet and sit as a local board of health; at such meet-
ing they shall receive the report of their secretary, shall hear
petitions and complaints in reference to nuisances, epidemic
diseases, and other unhealthful conditions, and shall consider