106 LAWS OF MARYLAND. [CH. 82

SEC. 6. And be it further enacted, That such assessments
when made, shall constitute a tax or lien upon such abutting
property with priority over all liens recorded after the passage
of this Act, and shall be payable in ten equal annual install-
ments from the date of said assessment, said installments to
bear interest at a rate not to exceed six per centum per annum,
and any assessment or part thereof remaining due and unpaid
shall b© enforced and collected by the Mayor and Common
Council in the same manner as town taxes are collected, pro-
vided the Mayor and Common Council shall give two weeks'
notice to the owners of all abutting property, by advertisement,
published at least once a week in one or more newspapers
published in Mount Rainier and if there be no such paper or
if the charges of such paper for said advertising be in excess
of the standard rates heretofore adopted by the newspaper
editors of Prince George's County for similar advertisements,
than in a newspaper published in Prince George's County
which has a circulation in Mount Rainier which advertising
shall state the date on which such assessment shall be made
and warning all abutting owners to appear at the time and
place stated in said advertisement or notices, to show cause,
if any there be, why said assessment should not be made as
proposed. Any person aggrieved by the action of the Mayor
and Common Council of Mount Rainier shall have the right to
appeal to the Circuit Court for Prince George's County, Mary-
land, provided such appeal is taken within ten days next suc-
ceeding the day on which said assessment is made.

SEC. T. And be it further enacted, That the Mayor and
Common Council of Mount Rainier, Maryland, shall give
prior consideration to the construction of roadways, alleys,
curbs, sidewalks and gutters as provided for herein whenever
the owners of fifty-one per centum (51%) of the property,
where property shall abut upon such streets, shall petition the
said Mayor and Common Council to that effect, but the Mayor
and Common Council of Mount Rainier shall have the discre-
tion and final determination as to the construction of all of said
work, notwithstanding such petition.

SEC. 8. And be it further enacted, That the provisions of
this Act shall not become effective until the same shall be sub-
mitted to and approved by the qualified voters of the town of
Mount Rainier, Maryland, as hereinafter provided.