The Prince George's enquirer and southern Maryland advertiser. (Upper Marlborough, Md.) 1882-1925, 1910-06-17

: improvements, the cost thereof, except
street and public ally intersections,
which assessments for sidew alks, curbs,
cutters. or road-bei and street improve
ments, or for all or any, shall be a lien
upon such abutting property and shall be
PAYABLE all cash, or in four equal in
stallments of six, twelve, eighteen and
twenty-four months respectively, from
the date OF said assessment, with in
terest at the rate of six per GEN.
tum per annum. and the person
assessed or any one on his behalf shall.
at any time have the right to anticipate
hy payment all installments of the
assessment not then due, and any
assessment of part thereof remaining
due and unpaid shall be enforced as a
tax in the same manner as taxes due
the town of Hyattsville are enforced
under the provisions of Chapter 70 of
| the Acts of the General Assembly of
MARYLAND of 1908. The Mayor and
| Common Council shall have power to
make all necessary regulations as to the
| notice of such assessments to property
owners.
Section 2lA, To effectuate the i'm
| provements named in the preceding
section, the Mayor n Common
Council of Hyattsville are hereby
authorized and empowered to borrow
from time to time, on the credit OF the
town q isum or sums OF money which
shall not, however, in the aggregate at
any one time, exceed Zen Thousand
no, OO0) Dollars in amount, and to issue
certificates of Indebtedness therefor,
which shall be payable within two
years from the date of issuance, with
avoooI tho rofa of civ
ner cent. per annum, payable annually,
Unless of shorter duration, then at the
maturity of said obligation; and the
Treasurer of said town is charged with
the custody of any moneys received
from the issue or sale of said certificates
of Indebtedness as above mentioned
and with the prompt collection Il safe
keening of the moneys araising from
assessment upon sidewalks, curbs,
cutters. and street improvements,
which last said funds shall be kept as a
sensrate account and fund. and no part
thereof shall be ever used for any ether
purpose than to liquidate the certltlca-
tes of Indebtedness and interest thereon,
issued for sidewalks, curbs, cutters and
road-bed and street improvements
which certificates, when paid, shall be
cancelled and, in addition to being pro-
perly kept and filed among the papers
of said town, a copy of each certificate
TINS cancelled, shall be entered upon a
separste book kept for the purpose afore-
said. and should the Treasurer Of said
town, ever divert the use of any of said
sidewalk or street improvement fluid, he
shall. upon conviction, be fined not
more than 81, 900 or imprisoned for a
term not exceeding two years, or be
both fined and imprisoned in the dis
cretion of the Court. i
Section BIB. When the Mayor and
Common Council shall have determined
to make sidewalk, curb, gutter or road
bed and street improvements, or all or
any. IN any street in said town, they
shall thereupon notify, as far as prac-
ticable, each property owner upon said
street so proposed to be improved, by
depositing said notice in the Uuited
States Post Office addressed to such
owners last known address, setting
forth that on a certain day to be named
therein, the Mayor and Common Council
will meet to determine the character
and kind of sidewalk, curb, gutter, or
road-bed and street improvement, or
all or any, to be laid, and notifying
said owner to appear at said meeting, |
and express his views upon the ques-
tons, if he so desire; at said meeting
the Mayor and Common Council shall
hear any suggestions OF said abuttlng
owners, and Immediately thereafter
they shall determine the character and
kind Of work to be done, which said
determination shall be made known by |
publication in the next succeeding issue
of n or more of the newspapers pub.
lished in the town, and shall be hnal
and conclusive as to the kind and char
Acter of the street improvements unless
q majority Of the owners abuttlng the
proposed Inducements, and charge
able with the cost thereof shall, in n
week from said publication, file with
the Mayor and Common Council, a pc
tition in writing, signed by said major
ity of owners, asking for a different
kind of sidewalk, curb, gutter and
street improvement, or any of them, in
which event, the Mayor and Common
Council shall forthwith adopt the side
walk, curb, gutter or street improve
ment. or all, in said petition requested, |
instead of the one heretofore selected
nv them. and thereafter, as Dol as |
practicable, begin, and with all possible
exnedition. complete said proposed i'm |
movements. If q majority of the own
era abutting the proposed improvements
and %chsrgeable with the cost thereof
shall. within the time above specified,
file with the Mayor and Common Coun. |
Gil a petition in writing, signed by said
majority of owners, asking that the
proposed improvements be made by
contract. said improvements shall be
made by contract.
Section 2lC. The Mayor and Com
mon Council are hereby authorized to
make such sidewalk, curb, gutter, road
bed and street improvements, except in
those cases where the majority of the
owners abutting the proposed improve
men:s have so requested, as herein pro-
yided' that said improvements be made
by contract, either by doing the work
themselves without letting bids, or by
contracting for the same as provided in
Section "a Of Chaprer 70 of the Acts of
the General Assembly of Maryland of
1908. All contractors for such street
improvements shall give bond in such
sum as the Mayor and Common Council
| shall require with sufficient sureties, to
| be approved by the Mayor and Common
| Council, for the faithful performance of
their contract.
Section 2. And be 1t enacted that this
| Act shall have no force or effect unless
| the same shall be approved by a major
| ity of the votes cast at a special cleo
| ton to be held In the said town. and
| hat the said special election shall be
held at the same time and place as the
| election to be held in the said town on
the first Monday in May, 1910, for
| Mayor and Common Council for said
town, for which said special election
ballots shall be prepared, having printed
on them "For the Act to improve the
Streets" and Against the Act to i'm
prove the streets" If at the said cleo
ton the majority of the votes cast shall
be "For the Act to improve the streets"
then and In that event the Act shall
have full force and effect, and if on the
contrary the majority of the votes shall
be Against the Act to improve the
Streets" then this Act shall be null and
void. .