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Council and be heard in reference to the amount of said total
assessment upon their said property according to said front foot
rule of assessment and to the liability of said owner for said
tax, provided that in determining the total amount of such tax
or assessment due from each of said owners the said Mayor and
Council of Crisfield shall credit to the total amount assessed
against each piece or parcel of property any sum heretofore
paid upon such piece or parcel of property, under the said
assessment heretofore made by the ordinance of said Mayor and
Council of Crisfield, proposed on the seventeenth day of Aug-
ust, nineteen hundred and twenty-seven and finally ratified and
enacted on the said twenty-first day of September, nineteen
hundred and twenty-seven.

SEC. 3. And be it enacted, That as soon as the total amount
of such tax or assessment due from each owner or owners of
such property abutting on said portions of said streets shall have
been finally ratified and determined after notice, as provided
by Section 2 of this Act, the said Mayor and Council of Cris-
field shall proceed forthwith to collect the same in such manner
as such other city taxes are collected and to apply the pro-
ceeds from such collections to the payment of the costs of said
improvements of said portions of said streets or to reimburse
the said Mayor and Council of Crisfield for any funds advanced
by it heretofore on account of the aforesaid improvement of
said portions of said streets,

SEC. 4. And be it further enacted, That this Act shall take
effect from the date of its passage.

Approved April 2, 1929.

CHAPTER 90.

AN ACT to repeal Section 377 of Article 13 of the Code of
Public Local Laws of Maryland, title "Harford County, "
sub-title "Havre de Grace, " as said section was enacted by
Chapter 680 of the Acts of 1916, said section relating to the
penalties for the sale of spirituous or fermented liquors in
Havre de Grace, and to repeal and re-enact with amend-
ments Sections 419, 420, 421, 423 of said Article 13, sub-
title "Liquor and Intoxicating Drinks, " as said sections were