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LAWS OF MARYLAND.

of property shall have the privilege at the end of each fiscal year

to pay the full amount then due. with interest, to that date only;

and upon the completion of the payment of the amount of

said lien, the said owner of property shall be entitled to receive

from said assignee said assignment of lien, and upon filing

with the Clerk of the Circuit Court for Allegany County of

such assignment, said property shall be released from said

lien, and the Clerk of the Court shall enter a short release upon

said lien record opposite the amount of said lien. Upon default

being made in the payment of said yearly instalment of said

assignment or interest thereon the full amount with interest

calculated for the full term shall become due and payable,

Enforcing
payment of

and the assignee of said lien shall have the right to enforce

same.

payment of the same by scire facias issued out of the Circuit

Court for Allegany County in the same manner as mechanics'

liens now enforced by law. The assignments provided for

above shall be advertised for two weeks in two newspapers in

the city of Cumberland as a series for the improvement upon

which said lien has been filed, and shall be sold to the highest

bidder for cash, but no assignment of lien shall be sold for less

than the face value of the principal of the same. But no

assignment shall be made against any property the owner of

which tenders to the City Clerk before such is made full amount

of the lien against his property.

SEC. 2. And be it enacted, That this Act shall take effect

from the date of its passage.

Approved March 15, 1904.

CHAPTER 63.

AN ACT to add three new sections to Article 18 of the Code

of Public Local Laws, title "Queen Anne's County, " sub-

title "Roads, " to follow Section 230 and to be designated

as Sections 23oA, 230B and 23oC.

SECTION 1. Be it enacted by the General Assembly of Mary-

Roads.

land, That three new sections be and the same are hereby added

to Article 18 of the Code of Public Local Laws, title "Queen

Anne's County, " sub-title "Roads, " to follow Section 230,

to be designated as Sections 230 A. 230B, and 230 C, and to

read as follows:

230A. The County Commissioners of Queen Anne's County

at their first meeting after the enactment of this bill into law