The Prince George's enquirer and southern Maryland advertiser. (Upper Marlborough, Md.) 1882-1925, 1910-06-03

sufficient for the needs of said street
and shall assess, at any time as the said
Mayor and Common Council may deem
proper and after ten days notice TO the
owners upon the lane AUDITING said
improvements, the cost thereof. except
street and public ally intersections.
which assessments for sidewalks, curbs,
ontters. or road be / and street improve
ments. oil for all or any, shall be a lien
upon such abutting property and shall be
pavable 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 cen.
tum per annum. and the person
assessed or any one on his behalf sinai.
ut any time have the right to anticipate
Ivy payment all installments or the
assessment not then due, and any
assessment of part thereof remaining
due and unpaid shall be enforced as a
tnx in the same manner as taxes due
the town Of Hy~sttsville 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 ola, To efectuate the i'm
provements named in the preceding
section, the Mayor and Common
Council of Hyattsville are hereby
authorized and empowered to borrow
from time to time, on the credit OF the
town q sum or sums of money which
| shall not, however, in the aggregate at
any one time, exceed Ten Thousand
no OOO) Dollars in amount, and to issue
certificates of Indebtedness therefor,
| which shall be payable within two
vears from the date, of issuance, with
interest not to exceed the rate of six
nrr cent. per annum. payable annually,
unless of shorter duration, then at the
maturity of said obligations; 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 and safe
keeping of the moneys araising from
assessment upon sidewalks, curbs.
cutters, and street improvements,
which last said funds shall be kept as a
separate account and fund. and no part
thereof shall be ever used for any ether
purpose than to liquidate the certlhca-
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 certlnca'e
thus cancelled, shall be entered upon a
separate book kept for the purpose a1ore-
said, and should the treasurer OF saia
town ever divert the use OF any OF salo
sidewalk or street Improvement 1uuo' ne
.hall mon conviction, be fined not
more than 81 900 or Imprisoned 1or a
term not exceeding two years, or DE
both fined and imprisoned IN the dls-
erection of the Court.
Section BIB. When the Mayor and
Common Council shall have determined
to make sidewalk, curb, gutter or road
bed and street improvements, or all ar
snv IN any street in said town, they
shall thereupon notify, as far as prac-
ticable. each property owner upon saio
street 40 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 q 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 vie VS. upon the ques'
lions. il be so desire; at said meeting
the Nayor and Common Council shall
hear any suggestions Of said abuttlng |
owners. and Immediately thereafter
thew shall determine the character n
lind of work to be done, which said
determin alton shall be made known by
publication in the next succeeding issue
of one or more of the newspapers pub.
lished in the town, and shall be hnal
and conclusive as to the kind and char
.cter of the street improvements unless
a majority of the owners AUDITING the
nrop0sed improvements, and charge
.ble with the cost thereof shall, in one
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 o as
practicable, begin, and with all possible
exnedition, complete said proposed i'm
nroyements. If a majority Of the own
t.rs abutting the proposed improvements
and %chargeable 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 AUDITING the proposed improve
mems have 80 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. go.
Section 2. And be it enacted that this
Act shall have no force or effect unless
the same shall be approved by a major
itv of the votes cast at a special cleo,
ton to be held in the said town. and
that 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 il IN the