The Prince George's enquirer and southern Maryland advertiser. (Upper Marlborough, Md.) 1882-1925, 1894-06-22
p pLrc L,cAL LAWS.
JANUARY SESSION, 1894
CHAPTER 5i5.

|
AN ACT to add additional Sections to
| Article Il of the Code of Public Local
| Laws of Maryland, entitled prince
Georges county, subtitle "Laurel
| providing for the Improvement and re-
pair of the streets of Laurel. Maryland,
and authorizing the issuance of bonds
for that purpose, to be known as Sec
tons 246G, 246H, 2l6I, 24ok, 246L, 246
| NJ, 246N, 246O, 246P, and 400.
SECTION I. Be il enacted by the Gen
| eral Assembly of Maryland, that the fol
| lowing additional sections be and the
same are hereby added to Article II OF
| the Code of Public Local Laws of Mary
land, entitled "Prince Georges county,
sub title Laurel" TO be known as Sec
tons 246G, o46H ,246I, 246k, 246L, 246M
246N, 400, 24oP, and 1850.
| SECTION 246G. The Mayor and City
| Council of LAUREL on the written request
| of ma ority of the land owners on any
street in Laurel, desiring to have the said
street improved, shall have the power,
| and is hereby authorized to improve the
| streets of Laurel with brick or other per-
| manent Sidewalks, stone gutterlng and
| Curbln%, and stone or other permanent
| carriage ways, after first grading and
| otherwise preparing for proper drainage,
| the streets to be improved according TO a
uniform system of grades to be estab-
| lished by said Mayor and City Council
| and according to which all constructions
on said streets shall strictly conform.
SECTION 246H. The total costs of im-
provementS of each street improved shall
be ascertained by the Mayor and City
| Council when and as said Improvements
are made, and after deduCting the costs
| of the street crossings and OF the I'M
| provements of the intersections OF streets
| along the line of the street improved,
which street crossings and intersections
| of streets SHALL be paid for entirely and
exclusively by the Mayor and City Coun-
| Gil, the balance of said total cost, after
| said deductions, shall be divided by the
mayor and city council into four fourths,
and the mayor and city council shall pay
two of said fourths and the land owners
on the sides of the street improved shall
pay the other two of said fourths accord
| ing to their linear front feet on SAID street
improved, so that the land owners on
each side of the street improved shall
| pay one of said fourthS according to their
| frontage per linear foot on said street
| improved.
SECTION 246I The land owners on the
| sides of the improved street shall haye
10 years from the completion OF the work
| and the assessment of the cost OF the
same, in which to pay their said two
tourths of the cost of said work, accord
| ing to their respective frontage per linear
foot on the street improved, by ten equal
annual instruments, with interest upon
the same from date of said completion
and assessment of said work, to the date
of the payment of said installments, and
which said assessment shall be made on
the completion of said work, and said in
tereSt shall not exceed 5 per Ccntum per
annum, and shall be paid i'll annual in
Stalments said two tourthS of the cost
of said work Chargeable to the owners of
the land abutting on the ST. Get improved.
with the interest on the same. shall be a
lien on the said abutting land per linear
front foot, and shall be collected in like
manner as other taxes are collected, and
shall form when collected, principal and
interest, a special fund to pay the prin-
Cipal and interest on the 10 year bonds
hereinafter provided to be issued by the
mayor and city council of Laurel against
said taxes, and shall be used only for
said purposes.
SECTION 246k. The mayor and city
councils said two tourthS OF the cost OF
said work, and the whole cost OF the
said street crossings, and intersections of
streets, shall be paid out of the proceeds
of the sale of the twenty years bonds
| hereinafter provided 10 DC ISSUED by the
mayor and city council of Laurel for that
purpose-said bonds and the interest on
| the same, shall be paid out of the annual
| income of the town of Laurel not derry
| ed from the special side walk tax, or the
| special electric light tax, over and above
| the salaries of the town officers, the com
missions of the town treasurer for col
lectng the taxes, and present deficiency
of the electric light tax while sad def
cheney continues, and necessary payment
on city hall debt, by setting apart annu-
| ally out of the first receipts of said in
come Il fixed and sufficient amount to
form 4 sinking fund to pay said twenty
years bonds, and the interest on the
same, when and as the same shall fall due.
| The aggregate amount Of said twenty
year bonds for said purposes never, I'M
| der any circumstances, to exceed the
| ability of said net income to meet SAID
twenty years bonds, and the interest on
the same, when and as said twenty years
bonds, and the interest on the same,