938 LAWS OF MARYLAND. [CH. 463

ter 689 of the Acts of the General Assembly of Maryland for
the year eighteen hundred and ninety-two, being 'An Act to
incorporate the Town of Preston in Caroline County, ' and all
amendments and additions thereto, except as hereinafter re-
tained and preserved, and to re-enact the same with amend-
ments, " said new Section to be known as Section ISA and to
read as follows:

Section 15A. In the event that the State Roads Commis-
sion shall build a State Highway through the main street of
said town of Preston, and the said Town Commissioners shall
by ordinance direct that the parts of the streets of said town
lying between the limits of said State Highway and the line of
the sidewalk or curb line of said street shall be paved, curbed
and guttered, repaired or extended, the Town Commissioners
shall upon a certain day to be named in said ordinance and
within three days, inclusive of the day of meeting, proceed to
ascertain what amount the contemplated improvement will cost,
and they shall have power to provide for the payment of the
costs aforesaid by levying, and assessing the same generally
upon the whole of the assessable property of said town, or spe-
cially upon the assessable value of the property benefited there-
by and abutting on said street, or in their discretion partly
upon the property benefited and abutting, upon said street, and
the 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 thereby
accrue to any lot or parcel of ground adjacent to said street,
or the owner thereof, and what amount said lot or the owner
thereof 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 secretary, and shall be by him recorded in a book
kept for that purpose, and any proprietor who shall feel him-
self 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 Caroline 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