ALBERT C. RITCHIE, GOVERNOR. 995

completed their apportionment of the expenses to be assessed
on the property binding on any street or streets, lane or lanes,
alley or alleys, or portion thereof, they shall give notice by ad-
vertisement inserted once a week for two successive weeks, in
some newspaper published in said town, notifying all persons
interested therein to appear and giving them an opportunity
to be heard before the amounts assessed against them are finally
established by said commissioner or commissioners, and any
person, including the town itself, feeling aggrieved at the
action of said commissioner or commissioners, shall have the
right to appeal to the Circuit Court for Montgomery County
and to a trial by jury; provided said appeal be taken within
thirty days after the determination of said commissioner or
commissioners 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 judg-
ment by the Circuit Court for Montgomery County.

492-B. The Mayor and Council of Rockville may, if they
see fit, provide by a general ordinance for the grading, paving,
curbing and laying of water and sewer mains, or for the
grading or paving, or curbing, or laying of water and sewer
mains, or for the regrading, repaving, recurbing and relaying
of water and sewer mains, or for the regrading, or repaving,
or recurbing, or relaying of water and sewer mains, or re-
paving of any street or streets, lane or lanes, alley or alleys,
or any portion thereof, in Rockville, without the passage of
a special ordinance in the particular case, subject to the
provisions and requirements of Section 492-A of this Act,
except as otherwise provided in this section, whenever the
owners of a majority of the front feet of property binding
on such street or streets, lane or lanes, alley or alleys, or
parts thereof, shall apply for the same, upon terms and con-
ditions 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, or
parts thereof, and for the collection of such assessments as
other city taxes are collected. No notice need be given before
the passage of such general ordinance, and said ordinance
shall provide for the appointment of a commissioner or com-
missioners, to determine the amount of assessment to be made
upon any such property, as provided by said ordinance, and
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