738 LAWS OF MARYLAND. [CH. 238

said street, and after the publication of the said resolution or
notice thereof, the Commissioners of Cambridge shall, by
ordinance appropriate the amount to be paid by the city, and
assess upon the said property, the amount to be paid by the
property owner, on the property on said street, giving the time
when such money shall be due and payable, and said ordinance
also to contain a provision that unless cause to the contrary is
shown, on or before some day therein named, that the said
assessment shall, after said date, become final, and if no cause
or insufficient cause is shown by said date, then the Com-
missioners shall pass an ordinance making the said assessment
final, and shall proceed to make the said improvement.

Such improvements may be made if the owners, or a ma-
jority of the owners, of more than one-half of the real estate
in front feet, fronting or binding on each of such public high-
ways, or thoroughfares, sought to be improved as aforesaid,
shall sign and file with the "Commissioners of Cambridge, " a
petition for such improvement to be made, and therein agree-
ing that the "Commissioners of Cambridge" shall assess the
said property for one-half, that is, one-fourth on the property
on the one side, and one-fourth on the property on the opposite
or other side of the said street, of the cost of the same, such
petition to show on its face, that it is from the owners of more
than one-half of the land and property, in front feet, binding
upon each side of said thoroughfare, in any block or square,
or the portion of such thoroughfare dividing two blocks, or
running between two blocks, that is, if any thoroughfare di-
viding two blocks or squares is sought to be improved, then
more than one-half of the property owners, or the owners of
more than one-half of the land and property in front feet, in
the said two blocks, shall sign the said petition, or if a whole
street is sought to be improved, or the balance of a whole
street from any stated place is to be improved, then the peti-
tion must be by the owners of more than one-half of the land
and property in front feet, binding on said whole street, or
part of the street or thoroughfare to be improved, the said
petition to state the street or thoroughfare or portion of the
street or thoroughfare sought to be improved, the kind of im-
provement and plainly give the names of the petitioners, and
the front feet of land owned by each of them, binding upon
the said thoroughfare or part thereof sought to be improved.

And should the Commissioners, after the filing of any such
petition, and the consideration of the same, deem that it would
be publicly advantageous to such a degree, in their discretion,