ALBERT C. RITCHIE, GOVERNOR. 401

thereof in the said town of Cambridge, whenever the owners
of a majority of the front feet of property binding on such
street, lane, alley or highway or part thereof shall apply for
the same upon terms and under, conditions to be prescribed in
said ordinance, and for the assessment in any such case of
the whole or any part of the costs of any such work or im-
provement pro rata according to the front foot rule of ap-
portionment of the cost of the improvements or equitable basis
upon all abutting property binding upon such street, lane,
alley or highway or part thereof, and for the collection of such
assessment as other city or town taxes are collected, or in such
manner as the said Commissioners of Cambridge, may pre-
scribe. In any and all cases where any street, alley, lane or
highway, as aforesaid, or part thereof, in said town of Cam-
bridge, has been graded, paved, or curbed, or regraded, re-
paved or recurbed under any ordinance which provided for
assessing of any portion or the whole of the costs of such im-
provement upon the property binding upon any such street,
lane, alley or other public highway or part thereof, and such
assessment or any part thereof remaining unpaid, it shall be
lawful for the said town 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, alley or public
highway or part thereof which may have been so improved to
the extent that such property shall have been specially bene-
fited by such improvement; provided, that no property upon
which the assessment originally made for its share of the costs
of such improvement shall have been paid shall be again as-
sessable. Any part of the costs assessed to the town of Cam-
bridge, aforesaid, under the provisions of this section shall
be paid out of the special fund, if one is provided, or the
general fund of the said town, that before the passage by the
Commissioners of Cambridge of any ordinance under this sec-
tion ten days' notice, at least, shall be previously given by
publication in some newspapers published in the town of Cam-
bridge, of any such ordinance which is proposed to be passed,
and an opportunity shall be afforded thereby to all persons
interested therein to appear and be heard by the said Commis-
sioners of Cambridge; and before any assessment made by
the Commissioners under any ordinance passed under the
power granted in this section shall be finally ratified, ten days'
previous notice, at least, shall be given in some newspaper, as