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and expenses shall be collected in manner following, viz.:
The whole amount estimated by the said examiner or examiners
to be necessary shall be assessed pro rata on all the ground
bounding and fronting on said footways and sidewalks, and
except when said footways or sidewalks cross open streets
or thoroughfares, which shall be paid by the County Commis-
sioners of Baltimore County out of the general tax levy of
said county, the same shall be a lien thereon until paid and
shall be collected as provided for the collections of other
assessments for the opening of streets, avenues or alleys in
Baltimore County. After all the assessments shall have been
collected by said examiner or examiners, he or they shall adver-
tise for sealed proposals for the grading, paving or repaving
of said footways or sidewalks, and said advertisement shall
be in the same manner as provided for in this sub-title of this
Article regulating the opening and condemning of streets and
avenues, and the awarding of the contract and grading and
construction of said footways or sidewalks shall be regulated
as provided therein.

645. The County Commissioners shall cause a copy of the
notice or order aforesaid to be given or served on the owner
of the lot in front of which a footway or sidewalk is required
to be filled up, dug down, paved, repaved or repaired in the
following manner, viz.: The said order or copy thereof may
be left at any house on such lot or may be served personally
on the owner thereof, his tenants, agents, or guardians, or left
at his residence, or a copy of such order may be published once
a week for three successive weeks in one or more newspapers
published in Baltimore County, and any notice served or pub-
lished in any of the modes as aforesaid shall be deemed suffi-
cient.

SEC. 2. And lie It further enacted, That this Act shall take
effect June 1, 1943.

Approved May 4, 1943.

CHAPTER 500.
(House Bill 316)

AN ACT to add five new sections to Article 3 of the Code of
Public Local Laws of Maryland (1930 Edition), title "Balti-
more County", said new sections to be under a new sub-title
"Pensions", said new sections to be known respectively as