J. MILLARD TAWES, GOVERNOR                          1065

said benefit assessments, they may be deducted from any surplus
in the hands of the Treasurer after a sale for non-payment of State
and county property taxes under proper order of the Circuit Court.
In the alternative, the lien created in favor of the annual benefit
assessments may be enforced by bill in equity or by action in
personam.

443D. Before the powers granted by this section to the County
Commissioners shall be exercised there shall first be a petition of
property owners THE PETITION OF PROPERTY OWNERS AS
HEREINBEFORE PROVIDED requesting improvements,; public
hearing upon said petition after ten days' notice in a newspaper
regularly published in Harford County,; approval of said petition
by the County Commissioners,; and the passage of an appropriate
ordinance, pursuant to the authority of this section, setting forth
the improvements being constructed, the property owners affected,
and all material terms of the annual benefit assessments levied to
pay the cost of said improvements, or any reasonable portion thereof,
as determined by the County Commissioners; provided that no
assessment shall exceed ten per centum (10%) of the assessed value
of the property after giving effect to benefits accruing thereto from
the improvement for which assessed.

443E. Any interested person feeling aggrieved by the levying of
any benefit assessment under this section shall have the right to
appeal to the Circuit Court for Harford County within ten THIRTY
days after the final adoption of the ordinance by the County Com-
missioners. AND SUCH COURT, SITTING WITHOUT A JURY,
IS AUTHORIZED TO HEAR AND DETERMINE WHETHER
THE COUNTY COMMISSIONERS ACTED PURSUANT TO THE
AUTHORITY GRANTED HEREIN AND WHETHER THE
BENEFIT ASSESSMENTS LEVIED PURSUANT TO THE PRO-
VISIONS OF THIS ACT ARE IMPOSED ACCORDING TO LAW.

443F. The authority extended to the County Commissioners by
this section shall be in addition to, but not in substitution of, the
powers heretofore vested in them for the improvement of roads in
Harford County.

Sec. 2. And be it further enacted, That this Act shall take effect
June 1, 1959.

Approved April 28, 1959.

CHAPTER 706
(House Bill 789)

AN ACT to add new Sections 125A, 125B and 125C to Article 27 of
the Annotated Code of Maryland (1957 Edition), title "Crimes and

Explanation: Italics indicate new matter added to existing law.

[Brackets] indicate matter stricken from existing law.
CAPITALS indicate amendments to bill.
Strike out indicates matter stricken out of bill.