280 LAWS OF MARYLAND. [CH. 128

binding upon the proposed improved public thoroughfare, and
the said notice shall require any persons who object to the said
extent, nature, kind and the cost of the improvement, to file
such objection with the Board of Commissioners on or before a
certain day named in the said notice, the said notice to state,
that unless the Commissioners should, for cause shown, deter-
mine to the contrary, that an ordinance would be later passed
assessing one-half of the costs of the said public improvement
upon all of the property binding upon the said public thorough-
fare, and the balance of the costs thereof to be paid by the
city, any objections or exceptions, as aforesaid, that may be
filed, to be heard, considered and determined as the Commis-
sioners shall deem proper, and after such consideration, if no
cause shown, or insufficient cause shown, then the Commissioners
shall proceed to make the said assessment by ordinance.

2. The Commissioners shall by ordinance assess the land and
property binding upon the proposed improved thoroughfare,
by front foot, the amount necessary to pay at least one-half of
the cost of the improvement, the cost of the said improvement
being stated in the ordinance, the number of front feet of land
assessed, and the amount appropriated by the Commissioners
from the City Treasury to pay the cost of the remaining half of
the improvement, to be provided as hereinafter set forth, when
the assessment shall be due and payable, and that after the
assessment is in arrear and unpaid, to provide for enforcing
the collection of the same, the ordinance to state the kind of
improvement that has been determined to be made, and before
the said ordinance shall become effective, it shall be published
in some newspaper, published in Cambridge, for at least twice
in ten days, following the date of the ordinance, with an order
nisi which shall state the time when the said ordinance shall
be finally passed or become entirely effective, unless good cause
or reason to the contrary shall be shown to the Commissioners
on or before the time named in the said order nisi, for cause to
be shown, and if no sufficient cause to the contrary shall be
made to appear to the Commissioners, they shall, on or after the
time named in the order nisi, pass an order, as part of the said
ordinance, making it effective from the date of the said final
order.

Provided that any person in interest, who shall feel aggrieved
by the passage of any such ordinance, within fifteen days from
the date of the said final order, shall have the right to appeal
from the said final order to the Circuit Court for Dorchester
County, the said appellant to execute an appeal bond, in the