The citizen. (Frederick City, Md.) 1895-1923, 1910-07-08
PUBLIC LOCAL LAWS.

said assessment as other city taxes are col
lected or in such manner as may be pre-
scribed by ordinance of the Mayor of Fred
erick, either before or after the work shall
have been done, provided that before the
passage by the Mayor and Aldermen of
Frederick of any ordinance requiring the
whole, or any portion of the costs to be
assessed upon the property, ten days
notice shall be given by the Mayor in
some newspaper published in said city,
notifying all persons interested therein to
appear and giving them the opportunity to
be heard before the Board of Aldermen, at
such time as shall be provided in said
notice and the Mayor and Aldermen of
Frederick are hereby authorized and en-
powered to provide by ordinance for the
appointment OF committee of the Board
of Aldermen or such other person or per-
sons, as they shall appoint not exceeding
three nor less than one, who shall act as
| Commissioner, or Commissioners, to deter
mine the amount of assessment to be made
upon any such property, under the provis-
ion contained in this act, and the ordi-
nance or ordinances passed in pursuance
hereof and after the commissioner or COM
missioners, so appointed. shall have COM
| pleted their appOrtionment of the expenses
to be assessed or the property binding on
any street or streets, lane or lanes allev or
alleys, or portion thereof they shall give
notice by advertisement inserted twice q
week for two successive weeks in some
daily newspaper, published in said city,
notifying all persons interested therein to
appear and giving them an opportunity to
be heard before the amounts assessed
against them are finally established by said
commissioner or commissioners any person
including the city ITSELF feeling aggrieved
at the action of said commissioner or COM
missiOners, shall have the right to appeal
! to the Circuit Court for Frederick County
and to trial by jury, provided said ap-
peal be taken within thirty days after the
determination of said commissioner or COM
missioners in such case and an appeal may
be taken to the Court of Appeals by either
party, provided said appeal he entered
within thirty days after the rendition of
said judgment by the Circuit Court for
Frederick County.
Section 236B.-The Mayor and Alder
men of Frederick may if they see fit pro-
vide by General Ordinance for the grad
ing, paving. curbing and sewering, or for
the grading, or paving, or curbing or sew
ering, or for the regarding, repairing, re-
curbing and resewering, or for the regrad-
ing, or repaving or recurbing, or resewer-
ing, or repairing of any street or Streets
lane or lanes, alley or alleys, or any portion
thereof, in Frederick, without the passage
of special ordinance in the particular
case, subject to the provisions and require
ments of Section 236A, of this Act, except
as otherwise provided ins this section,
whenever the owners of majority of the
front feet of property binding on such
street or streets, lane or lanes, alley or
alleys or parts Thereof shall apply for the
same upon terms and conditions to be pre-
scribed in said general ordinance, and for
the assessment in any such case of the cost
of such work, in whole, or in part, prorate
upon all the property binding upon such
street or streets. lane or lanes, alley or
alleys or parts thereof and for the cOllec-
ton of such assessments as other city taxes
are collected. No notice need be given be-
fore the passage of such general ordinance,
and said ordinance shall provide for the
appointment of a commissioner or commits
sioners, to determine the amount of assess
ment to be made upon any such property,
as provided by said ordinance, and said
commissioner or commissioners shall give
notice to all persons interested as required
by Section 236A, of this Act, before the
amounts assessed against them are finally
determined upon, and either party feeling
aggrieved at the action of said commissioner
or commissioners, shall have the right to
appeal as provided in Section 236A of this
Act.
Section 237C. In any and all cases
where any street, lane or alley, or part
thereof in the city, has been regarded, re-
paved and recurbed, whether the same was
severed or not. and the cost thereof, or any
part thereof, has yet remained unpaid it
shall be lawful for the city to provide by
ordinance for the levy and collection in
such manner as it may deem proper, of a
tax upon all the property binding on any
street, lane or alley, or parts thereof
which may have been SO improved in pro-
portion to the frontage of each property
thereon, provided that the amount so
levied shall not exceed in proportion to the
number of front feet the amount heretofore
charged and paid by other property owners
on said streets, lanes or alleys, or portion
thereof for said improvement and provided
further that no property which has con-
tributed its proportionate share of the cost
of such improvement shall again be as
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opportunity to be heard shall be given to
all persons interested before the final ascer-
tainment of the amount of tax to be paid
by such property, and the said city shall
provide for appeal to the Circuit Court for
Frederick County with right to trial by
jury, by any person or persons interested
including the city itself, from the decision
of the commissioner or commissioners, APP
pointed to determine the amount or
4 amounts of such taxes or assessments and
providing further for an appeal to the
Court of Appeals.
Section BE it enacted that this Act
shall take effect from the date of its pas
sage
Approved April II, 1910.
AUSTIN L. CROTHERS,,
Governor