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ART. XCI] PUBLIC ROADS. 691
the county where such road or section of road may be situated stating
in said petition the desire of said petitioners to have said road, or sec-
tion thereof, constructed or repaired under the provisions of this sub-
title the said County Commissioners shall thereupon give ten days'
notice in some newspaper published in said county of their intention
to take up the matter for a hearing on some certain day to be named
therein so that all persons interested may have an opportunity of being
heard and should said road or section thereof be constructed or repaired
under the provisions of this sub-title, they shall assess one-tenth of the
total costs of same upon the abutting property according to the front
foot rule of apportionment and the amount so assessed upon each piece
or parcel of land shall become a lien thereon to the amount of said
assessment and shall be collected as other county taxes are collected, or
in such manner as the said commissioners may prescribe, and said
County Commissioners shall have power to pass all necessary resolu-
tions prescribing the manner and time of making said assessment; pro-
vided, however, that before any assessment made by the County Com-
missioners or its authorized agent under this section or any resolution
shall be finally ratified, ten days' notice at least shall be given in one
newspaper published in said county of the date and place when said
assessment is to be taken up for final ratification, and an opportunity
shall be afforded all persons interested therein to appear and be heard.
Immediately upon final ratification on said assessment it shall become
due and collectible in the manner hereinbefore set forth. Upon the
filing of said petition by said owners as aforesaid it shall be the duty of
said Board of County Commissiors to make such a request to the
State Roads Commission as set forth in Section 66 of this Article.
Where a road was petitioned for under the act of 1904, chapter 225, a
contract whereby the contractors relieved the petitioners of a portion of
the obligation which the latter contracted to perform, was against public
policy and void. Meaning of the term "public policy." Walsh v. Hibberd.
122 Md. 171.
This and the following sections referred to in a bill of complaint involv-
ing the construction of the act of 1914, chapter 836, revising the charter of
Ellicott City. Ellicott City v. Howard County, 127 Md. 581.
See notes to this section in volume 2 of the Annotated Code.
1904, art. 91, sec. 38. 1904, ch. 225, sec. 6. 1910, ch. 217, sec. 38 (p. 317).
1916, ch. 645, sec. 71.
71. After the receipt of such plans and specifications and estimate
by the Board of County Commissioners of any County in Maryland
from said State Roads Commission, said Board of County Commis-
sioners, if they elect to proceed further hereunder, as hereinbefore pro-
vided in Section 66, shall advertise for two consecutive weeks in at least
one newspaper published in such County, and also during the time of
Mich publication in such County newspaper, at least three consecutive
times in at least one newspaper published in Baltimore City, for bids
for such road building or improvement, setting forth the place where
such road is to be built or improved, and giving a general description
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