Frostburg mining journal. [volume] (Frostburg, Md.) 1871-1913, 1908-05-30
CHAPTER 400

AN ACr to authorize the Mayor and Council
of Frostburg to levy special assessments
and to provide for the collection thereof
upon property binding on any street, lane
or alley of said town or part thereof, and
upon the property-line, track or franchise
right of any Street-Car Company located
and having its tracks upon said street lane
or alley so improved, which may have
been graded, paved and curbed, or re-
graded, re-paved or re-curbed under any
Ordinance or Ordinances of the Mavor
and Counclmcn, which Ordinance pro-
vided for assessing the whole or any por-
ton of the cost of such work upon the
property binding upon such street lane or
alley or part thereof, and upon the prop
erty line, track or franchise right of any
Street Car Company located and having
its tracks upon said street lane or alley so
improved, and which assessment from any
cause have not been fully collected by said
Mayor and Councilmen
WHEREAS, Certain streets, lanes and alleys,
or parts thereof, IN the town of Frostburg,
have been graded, paved or curbed, or re-
graded, re-paved or re-curbed under Ordi-
nances of the Mayor and Councilmen of the
town of Frostburg which provided for the
assessment of the whole or certain portions
OF the cost of such work upon the property
binding upon such streets lanes or alleys or
parts thereof so improved, some of which
assessments have been paid, and other por-
tions thereof remain uncollectcd although
the Mayor and Councilmen have paid the
whole cost of such improvements, and
WHEREAS, 1t is just and proper that all
property which may have been benefited by
such work should pay its proper proportion
of such cost, to the extent that such prop
erty may have been specially benefited
thereof
CECTION /, BE ii Enactcd by tie General
~ i%Scmbty Of Maryland, That in any and
all cases where any street, lane or alley, or
any part thereof IN the town of Frostburg
has been graded, paved or curbed, or re-
graded, re-paved or re-curbed under any
Ordinance, whether defective or not, which
provided Tor assessing the whole or any por-
ton of the cost of such Improvement upOu
the property binding on such street, lane or
alley, or part thereof, and upon the property
line, track or franchise right of any Street
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upon said street, lane or alley so improved
and such assessments, Or any part thereof
remain unpaid it shall be lawful for the
Mayor and CounCilmen of the town of Frost
burg to provide by Ordinance for the ap-
polntment of Commissioners to assess the
value ol such improvement and for the levy
and collection, in such manner as they may
deem proper, of tax upon all the property
binding on any street. lane or alley or part
thereof, and upon the property-.ine, track
or franchise right OF any Street Car Compa-
ny located and having its tracks upon said
street, lane or alley. or part thereof, which
may have been so improved to the extent
that such property shall have been specially
benehted by such improvement provided
that no property upon which the assessment
originally male for its share of the cost of
such improvement shall have been paid
shall be again assessed, and that reasonable
notice and an opportunity to be heard shall
be gwen to all persons interested before the
final ascertalnment of the amount of tax to
be paid by any such property and the sand
Mayor and Councilmen shall provide for
appeals to the Circuit Court of AlleganV
county by any person or persons interested
including the Mayor and Councilmen them
selves, from the decision of any Commits
sloners or other persons appointed to deter
mine the amount or amounts of such special
taxes or assessments; and in the trial of such
appeals the practice shall conform as near
as may be to the practice in the trial of street
appeals, including the right of appeal to the
Court of Appeals.
SECTION ,, .itd be il EHac.tcd That this Act
shall take effect from the date of its passage
Approved April 6, 1908.
AUSTIN l.. CROTHERS,
Governor.
JOSEPH b. SETH,
President of the Senate.
J. ENOS RAY, JR.,
Speaker of the House of Delegates.
State Of .Ha,yland, Set:
|, CALEB c. MAGRUpER, Clerk of the Court
of Appeals of Maryland, do hereby certify,
That the foregoing is a full and true copy of
the Act of the General Assembly of Mary
land of which it purports to be copy as
taken from the Original Law belonging to
and deposited in the Office of the Clerk of
the Court of Appeals aforesaid.
{ --) In testimony whereof | have
( SEAL hereuntO set my hand as Clerk and
| 49, affixed the Seal of the said Court
of Appeals, this DIST day of April, 1908,
c. c. MAGRUDER
Clerk Court of Appeals of Maryland.
May Is