740 LAWS OF MARYLAND. [CH. 238

of the cost of the improvement, the cost of the said improve
ment being stated in the ordinance, the number of front feet
of land assessed, and the amount appropriated by the Com-
missioners from the City Treasury to pay the cost of the re-
maining half of the improvement, to be provided as herein-
after set forth, when the assessment shall be due and payable,
and that after the assessment is in arrear and unpaid, to
provide for enforcing the collection of the same, the ordinance
to state the kind of improvement that has been determined
to be made, and before the said ordinance shall become effec-
tive, it shall be published in some newspaper published in
Cambridge, for at least twice in ten days, following the date
of the ordinance, with an order nisi which shall state the
time when the said ordinance shall be finally passed or become
entirely effective, unless good cause or reason to the contrary
be shown to the Commissioners on or before the time named
in the said order nisi, for cause to be shown, and if no suffi-
cient cause to the contrary shall be made to appear to the Com-
missioners, they shall, on or after the time named in the
order nisi, pass an order as part of the said ordinance, making
it effective from the date of the said final order.

Provided that any person in interest, who shall feel ag-
grieved by the passage of any such ordinance, whether the said
ordinance is passed in consequence of the action of the Com-
missioners of Cambridge in making any of said improvements,
without petition having been filed, and by virtue of the power
and authority herein conferred upon it, or whether the said
improvement is made as the result and consequence of a peti-
tion filed by the property owners as hereinbefore set forth, in
either event, or in the event that both of said proceedings have
been had to procure the said improvement, within fifteen days
from the date of the said final order, shall have the right to
appeal from the said final order to the Circuit Court for Dor-
chester County, the said appellant to execute an appeal bond,
in the penalty of two hundred dollars ($200. 00), payable to
the State of Maryland, for the use of the Commissioners of
Cambridge, conditioned, that if the appellant shall not prose-
cute his appeal with effect, then the said bond and the said
appellant to be liable for all the costs, expenses and damage
to the City of Cambridge, on account of the said appeal, but
if the said appeal should be prosecuted with effect, then the
said bond to be void, and should the said appeal be taken it
shall be noted upon the records of the Commissioners, and the
said appeal bond filed with them, the Clerk to the Com-