ALBERT C. RITCHIE, GOVERNOR.                  237

company located and having its tracks upon said street, lane
or alley, or part thereof, so improved, then the Mayor and
Councilmen shall collect in the manner hereinafter provided
from said street car company a sum of money equal to the
extent such property shall have been specially benefited by such
improvements. And it shall be the duty of the Mayor and
Councilmen to provide by ordinance; for the appointment of
commissioners to assess the value of such improvements, and
the Mayor and Councilmen shall give reasonable notice and an
opportunity to be heard to all persons interested before the
final ascertainment of the amount of tax to be paid by any
such property; and the said Mayor and Councilmen shall pro-
vide for appeals to the Circuit Court for Allegany County by
any person or persons interested, including the Mayor and
Councilmen, from the decision of any commissioner or other
persons appointed to determine the amount or amounts of such
assessments, with the right to any person or persons interested
or the Mayor and Councilmen to an appeal to the Court of
Appeals.

And the Mayor and Councilmen shall provide by ordinance
for the giving of notice by publication or by service of written
notice personally upon the parties to be affected by said pro-
ceedings, and allowing them to be heard before any such pro-
ceedings are had. But nothing in this section shall be con-
strued to prevent said Mayor and Councilmen from construct-
ing any sewer or sewers, or system of sewers and paying for
the same out of the funds of the city, nor to prevent said
Mayor and Councilmen, in the event no assessment is made
upon the property owners for the cost of said sewers, from;
charging a reasonable sum for the right of connection there-
with in perpetuity and to require all owners of improved or
vacant property to which said sewer when attached would be
benefited thereby, to take out and pay for a license to attach
to said sewer within sixty days after the completion of said
work, all of which powers are hereby granted to said Mayor
and Councilmen; and provided further, that the Mayor and
Councilmen may exercise this right to repave, regrade, re-
curb, and resewer, only after the expiration of ten years from
the time of the completion of the paving, grading, curbing or
sewering of said streets, lanes or alleys, or parts thereof, which
are to be repaved, regraded, recurbed or resewered.

Whenever the Mayor and Councilmen shall levy any sum of
money on the owners of property in said city for grading,