238 LAWS OF MARYLAND. [CH. 96

same before the expiration of said time may at any time after
the filing of said statement give notice to said Mayor and City
Council in writing, that he disputes the validity of such lien,
and wishes to test the same so as to free his property from said
lien claim, and in such case, unless said Mayor and City Coun-
cil shall issue a scire facias thereon against said party within
sixty days after the receipt of such notice, said lien shall be
waived and avoided as against his property, and in all cases
or writs of scire facias issued under this section, the same
shall stand for trial at the first term of court after the issu-
ing thereof; provided the same shall have been served on the
defendants and a return of such service made by the sheriff
at least ten days before the commencement of said term, and
upon all judgments rendered in such cases there shall be a
stay of thirty days and no longer; provided that either party
may appeal to the Court of Appeals of Maryland from any
ruling or decision of any question of law decided by the Cir-
cuit Court in such trial. And in case the defendant shall ap-
peal and file a proper appeal bond, then said stay of thirty
days shall be counted from the affirmance of such judgment, if
the same shall be affirmed, and not from the date of the judg-
ment below.

80. The Mayor and City Council, in addition to the powers
heretofore granted as to grading, curbing, paving, repaving and
repairing the streets of said city, shall have full powers to grade,
curb and pave all sidewalks and gutters which in their judg-
ment and public convenience may require, and to cause said
sidewalks and gutters to be repaved or regraded or repaired
or otherwise improved and to collect the cost thereof from the
person owning the property fronting on any sidewalks, curb
or gutter, in the same manner as is provided for the paving
and repaving of streets in Sections 77 and 78 of this Act, and
said Mayor and City Council shall also have the same powers
to file liens and enforce the same as are provided in Sections
79 and 80 of this Act for the filing and enforcement of liens
for paving and repaving streets.

81. Said Mayor and City Council, in addition to the powers
granted in the preceding section, shall also have power to cause
any sidewalks in said city to be graded, curbed, paved or re-
paved, regraded or recurbed by the owners of the property
abutting on said sidewalk, upon giving said owners of the
property written notice to pave,. grade, curb, repave, regrade
or recurb said sidewalks, and setting out in said written notice