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property owners as hereinbefore provided requesting improvements;
public hearing upon said petition after ten days' notice either in
a newspaper regularly published in Carroll County or by the delivery
of a complete copy of said petition by registered mail or personal
delivery to each of the affected abutting property owners; approval
of said petition by the County Commissioners; and the passage of an
appropriate ordinance, pursuant to the authority of this section, set-
ting 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 por-
tion thereof, as determined by the County Commissioners; provided
that no assessment shall exceed the total assessed value of the prop-
erty, excluding any improvements thereon, after giving effect to bene-
fits accruing thereto from the improvement for which assessed.

Sec. 2. And be it further enacted, That this Act shall take effect
June 1, 1963.

Approved April 17, 1963.

CHAPTER 277
(Senate Bill 597)

AN ACT to repeal the following sections of the Code of Public Local
Laws of Maryland (1930 Edition): Sections 77 and 78, the former
as amended by Chapter 562 of the Acts of 1957 and the latter as
amended by Chapter 10 of the Acts of 1947, of Article 6, title
"Caroline County", sub-title "Circuit Court"; Section 245 of
Article 18, title "Queen Anne's County", sub-title "Jurors", as the
same was added by Chapter 639 of the Acts of 1957; to repeal
Sections 93 and 94 of the Code of Public Local Laws of Cecil
County (1961 Edition, being Article 8 of the Code of Public Local
Laws of Maryland), title "Cecil County", sub-title "Circuit Court";
to repeal Section 298 of the Code of Public Local Laws of Kent
County (1959 Edition, being Article 15 of the Code of Public Local
Laws of Maryland), title "Kent County", sub-title "Jurors"; and
to repeal and re-enact, with amendments, Section 1 of Article 26
of the Annotated Code of Maryland (1957 Edition); providing
that the judges of the Second Judicial Circuit may prescribe the
terms of the Circuit Courts thereof and repealing inconsistent
laws.

Section 1. Be it enacted by the General Assembly of Maryland,
That the following sections of the Code of Public Local Laws of
Maryland (1930 Edition): Sections 77 and 78, the former as
amended by Chapter 562 of the Acts of 1957 and the latter as
amended by Chapter 10 of the Acts of 1947, of Article 6, title "Caro-
line County", sub-title "Circuit Court", be and they are hereby re-
pealed; that Section 245 of Article 18, title "Queen Anne's County",
sub-title "Jurors", as the same was added by Chapter 639 of the Acts
of 1957, be and it is hereby repealed; that Sections 93 and 94 of the
Code of Public Local Laws of Cecil County (1961 Edition, being
Article 8 of the Code of Public Local Laws of Maryland), title "Cecil
County", sub-title "Circuit Court", be and they are hereby repealed;