178 LAWS OF MARYLAND. [CH. 89

WHEREAS, some of the abutting property owners on said
portions of said streets have paid the assessment levied as
aforesaid, upon their said property, and others of said property
owners have refused to pay said assessment; and

WHEREAS, it is hereby determined that all property abutting
on the aforesaid portions of said streets, has been benefited by
the said construction of the said concrete pavement or roadway
in the central portion thereof, to the extent of one dollar and
ten cents per front foot; now, therefore,

SECTION 1. Be it enacted by the General Assembly of
Maryland, That there is hereby levied and imposed a tax or
assessment of one dollar and ten cents per front foot upon all
landed property in the City of Crisfield, adjoining or abutting
upon each side of Maryland Avenue from Ward's Crossing to
the Pennsylvania Railroad Crossing at North Fourth Street
and on each side of Chesapeake Avenue from the corner of
North Fourth Street to the corner of Somerset Avenue, and on
each side of North Fourth Street from the Pennsylvania Rail-
road Crossing to the corner of Main Street, said property hav-
ing been specially benefited to the extent of one dollar and ten
cents per front foot by the construction heretofore made of
a concrete pavement or roadway sixteen feet wide in the cen-
tral portions of said streets; provided, however, that in the
case of any corner property abutting upon or adjoining the
said improved portions of two of the aforesaid streets, one in
the front and the other on the side of said corner property,
one-half of the number of lineal feet of said property abut-
ting on the highway on the side, shall be exempt from the
tax under this Act.

SEC. 2. And be it enacted, That the Mayor and Council of
Crisfield is hereby authorized and directed to proceed forthwith
to list all landed property abutting on said portions of said
streets and to determine the amount of the total assessment
due from each owner or owners thereof, at the rate of one
dollar and ten cents per front foot as aforesaid, but before
reaching such determination and finally ratifying the total
amount of such tax or assessment due from each owner or own-
ers, the said Mayor and Council of Crisfield shall give notice of
at least ten days by publication in some newspaper published in
said Town of Crisfield, of the time and place when any owner
or owners of said property may appear before said Mayor and