ALBERT C. RITCHIE, GOVERNOR. 123

title "Baltimore County" sub-title "Roads and Streets, " as
compiled by T. Scott Offutt and published by the County
Commissioners of Baltimore County (1916).

525-B. The County Commissioners of Baltimore County
are hereby authorized and empowered to open new roads in
Baltimore County where property is being developed, upon
the written request of the owners of sixty per cent, of the
front feet of ground binding on the whole length of such new
road to be opened, with power to assess benefits against the
owners of the front feet binding on both sides of said road,
said benefits in no instance to exceed two-thirds of the cost
of said road. Upon receipt of such application of sixty per
cent, of the owners of front feet binding on said road, the
County Commissioners of Baltimore County shall give ten
(10) days notice in a newspaper published in Baltimore
County of the fact that such application has been made, and
of the intention of the said County Commissioners to con-
sider the same, and also of the time when, and the place where
objections to such application will be received and heard. A
tenant for ninety-nine (99) years, renewable forever, or the
Executor or Administrator of such a tenant, or the guardian
of an infant owner, or a mortgagor in possession, shall be
deemed and taken as an owner for the purpose of any appli-
cation authorized by this Act and the application of any such
person shall bind the property so represented for any assess-
ment or tax made under it, and the County Commissioners of
Baltimore County are hereby authorized to sign any such
application on behalf of the County Commissioners of Balti-
more County as owner of any property binding on said street,
whenever the said Commissioners shall deem it advisable to
do so.

SEC. 2. And be it further enacted. That after any con-
tract for the work of grading, paving or curbing said street,
shall have been awarded in the manner provided by law, the
said County Commissioners of Baltimore County shall impose
a benefit assessment upon the property binding on said, road
equal in amount to two-thirds (2/3) of the whole expense of
the work, and also three percentum (3%) on the amount so
to be assessed against said property for the cost and expense
of collecting the same, and the said County Commissioners
shall apportion said benefit assessment so that said lots of
ground binding on both sides of said road to be graded, paved