600 LAWS OF MARYLAND. [CH. 499

three-fifths (3/5) of all the members elected to each of the
two Houses of the General Assembly, the same shall take
effect from the date of its passage.

Approved May 4, 1943.

CHAPTER 499.
(House Bill 315)

AN ACT to repeal and re-enact, with amendments, Sections
644 and 645 of Article 3 of the Code of Public Local Laws
of Maryland (1930 Edition), title "Baltimore County", sub-
title "Roads and Streets", eliminating certain unnecessary
advertising requirements in connection with footway and
sidewalk repairs.

SECTION 1. Be it enacted by the General Assembly of Mary-
land, That Sections 644 and 645 of Article 3 of the Code of
Public Local Laws of Maryland (1930 Edition), title "Balti-
more County", sub-title "Roads, and Streets", be, and the same
are hereby repealed and re-enacted, with amendments, to read
as follows:

644. The County Commissioners are hereby authorized and
directed in all cases where the owner of ground fronting on
any of the streets, avenues or alleys in Baltimore County
cannot be found at the time when footways or sidewalks of said
streets, avenues or alleys are out of order to cause to be pub-
lished in one or more newspapers published in Baltimore
County once a week for three successive weeks that the foot-
ways or sidewalks in front of the ground or premises referred
to and specified in said advertisements are out of order or in
want of repair, and to cause to be published a notice of their
intents or by personal service of said notice to the owner to have
said footways or sidewalks paved, repaved or repaired, as the
case may be; and in case said footways or sidewalks in front of
said grounds or premises, as set out in said notice, shall not be
paved, repaved or repaired within the time specified in said
notice published as aforesaid, the said County Commissioners
shall appoint one examiner or three examiners, as the case may
be, to take charge of and have said footways or sidewalks
paved, repaved or repaired; but the said examiner or ex-
aminers before proceeding so to do, shall make an estimate of
the probable cost of said paving, repaving or repairing, includ-,
ing all the expenses attending the said matter, and said costs