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or ordinances passed in pursuance hereof, and after the Coun-
cilman or Councilmen, so appointed shall have completed their
apportionment of the expenses to be assessed upon the prop-
erty binding on any street or streets, lane or lanes, alley or
alleys, or portions thereof, they shall give notice by advertise-
ment inserted once a week for two successive weeks in some
newspaper published in or nearest said town in Frederick
County, notifying all persons interested therein to appear and
giving them an opportunity to be heard before the amount
assessed against them are finally established by said Council-
man or Councilmen; and any person, including the town itself,
feeling aggrieved at the action of said Councilman, or Council-
men, shall have the right to appeal to the Circuit Court for
Frederick County and to a trial by jury; provided said appeal
be taken within thirty days after the determination of said
Councilman or Councilmen in such case; and an appeal may
be taken to the Court of Appeals by either party, provided said
appeal be entered within thirty days after the rendition of
said judgment by the Circuit Court for Frederick County; and
the Burgess and Council of Myersville may, if they see fit,
provide by a general ordinance for the grading, paying, curb-
ing, drainage, and sewering, or for the grading, or paving, or
curbing, or sewering, or draining, or for the regrading, repav-
ing, recurbing and resewering, or repaving, or recurbing, or
draining, or resewering or repairing of any street or streets,
lane or lanes, alley or alleys, or any portion thereof, in the
town of Myersville, without the passage of a special ordinance
in the particular case, subject to the provisions and require-
ments of this section, except as otherwise provided herein,
whenever the owner of a majority of the front feet of prop-
erty binding on such street or streets, lane or lanes, alley or
alleys, roads or part thereof, shall apply for the same upon
terms and conditions, private or public, to be prescribed in said
general ordinance, and for the assessment in any such case of
the cost of such work, in whole or in part, pro rata, upon all
the property binding upon such street or streets, lane or
lanes, alley or alleys, roads or any part thereof, and for the
collection of such assessment or other taxes are collected. No
notice need be given before the passage of such general ordi-
nance, and said ordinance shall provide for the appointment of
a Councilman, or Councilmen, to determine the amount of the
assessment to be made upon such property, as provided by said
ordinance, and said Councilman, or Councilmen, shall give
notice to all persons interested, as hereinbefore required, be-
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