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known as Section 341A, and to follow immediately after
Section 341 of said Article, authorizing the Mayor and City
Council to survey and establish street grades and lines,
curb lines and building lines, and to assess the cost of
grading, laying and paving street beds to one-fourth the
width of same and constructing curbs on the owners of
abutting property.

SECTION 1. Be it enacted by tlie General Assembly of Mary-
land, That a new section be and it is hereby added to Article
13 of the Code of Public Local Laws of Maryland, title "'Har-
ford County," sub-title "Havre de Grace," said new section
to be known as section 341A, to follow immediately after sec-
tion 341 of said Article, and to read as follows.

341A. The Mayor and City Council of Havre de Grace shall
have the power to pass ordinances to survey and establish the
grades of streets, street lines, curb lines and building lines, and
to provide penalties for the violation of any of said ordinances
not to exceed the sum of $100 and penalties shall be payable to
the Mayor and City Council of Havre de Grace upon convic-
tion before a Justice of the Peace of Harford County.
The said Mayor and City Council shall also have the power, by
ordinance, to provide that the cost of grading, laying and
paving streets and constructing curbs shall be assessed against
the abutting property, but not more than one-fourth of the
cost of grading and laying said street shall be assessed to the
abutting property, provided that not more than one-half the
cost of said grading and paving or curb construction shall be
so assessed and that the owners of the abutting property so
assessed shall have the right to pay said assessments in ten
equal annual installments. The said Mayor and City Council
shall have the power to provide by ordinance for the leving or
imposing of similar special assessments upon the property abut-
ting upon streets which have already been graded, paved or
curbed by the City without special assessment or payment of
any part of the cost upon said abutting property. Provided,
however, that the power to assess a part of the cost of gradin?
paving and curbing shall only apply where an improved pave-
ment has been laid or shall be laid, and "improved pavement"
shall mean any substantial smooth paving above the srrade of
ordinary macadam, and shall include sheet asphalt, granite or
belgian blocks, vitrified brick, bithulithic, bituminous macadam.
and bituminous concrete. Special assessments shall not be