JOHN WALTER SMITH, ESQ., GOVERNOR.

three, four, five, six, seven, eight, nine, ten and eleven, and
lots A, B, C, D, E, F, G, H, I and K. Block twelve; one-
fourth or twenty -five per cent, of the cost of such works shall
be imposed upon the lots, severally, composing the west half
of all of said blocks numbers three, four, five, six, seven,
eight, nine, ten and eleven; the remaining one-fourth, or
twenty-five per cent, of the cost of such works shall be
imposed upon the lots, severally, composing blocks fourteen,
fifteen, sixteen, seventeen, eighteen, nineteen, twenty, twenty-
one and twenty-two. Each lot above named shall bear its
respective proportion of said cost above specified, irrespective
of any valuation of any improvement upon it, and the amount
of money necessary to be collected in each year upon each of
said lots to meet the amount so to be severally imposed upon
it, shall be certified by the Secretary of said Commissioners

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of Arundel-on-the-Bay, upon an order and finding of said
Commissioners to be duly entered of record, as to the amount
to be charged against such lot for that year as its due share
of the cost of said work to be raised that year, to the County
Commissioners of Anne Arundel County, who shall extend
the several amounts against the several lots as and so speci-
fied as a tax upon each of said several lots, in a separate
column, and which amounts, severally, shall be collected as
other taxes are collected in said Arundel-on-the-Bay, as here-
inbefore provided, and when collected shall be paid to the
Treasurer of said town of Arundel-on-the-Bay. After any
lot named in said section number thirty-one has been assessed
for its respective proportion of the entire cost of any
improvement for the protection and preservation of the
water front of said town, and the same has been fully
paid, such lot shall be relieved from any further special
assessment or special tax for the cost of such improvement,
and if for any reason, after the final special assessment to
pay the cost of such improvement, there shall be a deficiency
in collection of such special assessments or special taxes to
pay the cost of such improvements in full, then such defici-
ency shall be paid out of the general funds of the town in the
hands of the Treasurer. Upon the contract for such improve-
ment being made, the Commissioners shall make an appor-
tionment of said cost to each lot described in said Section
thirty-one, and it shall be the right of any owner of any of
said lots to pay to the Treasurer of said town the amount
apportioned to his lot as its share of said cost, with 5 per
cent, interest thereon from the date of the first issue of bonds
hereunder, and for thirty days after date of payment, either
in cash or in the bonds of said town, which shall be taken at

Proportion of
cost assessed
each lot own er