570 LAWS OF MARYLAND. [Ch. 401]

with a penalty of twenty-five cents additional and a like pen-
alty shall be added each succeeding month until such taxes and
penalties shall be paid. All taxes not paid within one year
to be collected in the -same manner as State and county taxes
are collected.

SEC. 15. Those parts of the several county roads within the
limits of said town, and all roads, streets, avenues or alleys
which now are or shall hereafter be shown on any plat or addi-
tion to the platted part of said town as public highways and
accepted by the Council as such, are hereby made and declared
to be public streets, avenues and alleys of said town, and shall
be from time to time improved and repaired as the public
interest may require and the reasorces of the town will justify.

SEC. 16. The County Commissioners of Prince George's
County shall pay over to the town of Brentwood on or before
the first day of January of the year after this charter becomes
effective and of every year thereafter, three-fourth of that pro-
portion of the entire county levy for the repair of county road
which the total real property assessed within the town of Brent-
wood bears to the whole amount of assessed property in Prince
George's county, so that the town of Brentwood shall receive
and disburse for the maintenance of the streets of said town
three-fourths of the amount levied for the repair of roads by
said County Commissioners of Prince George's County upon
the real property within the corporate limits of the town of
Brentwood.

SEC. 17. It shall not be lawful to sell intoxicants of any
kind in any quantity whatever, except by prescription of an
attending physician in regular practice, nor to grant or issue
or cause to be granted or issued, any license to sell intoxicants
of any kind, in any quantity whatever, except by such prescrip-
tion, within the. corporate limits of Brentwood; and if any such
license be granted or issued in violation thereof, the same shall
be void.

SEC. 18. Any proposed ordinance may be submitted to the
Coucil by petition filed with the town clerk, that such ordi-
nance be passed or submitted to a vote of the people. If said
petition shall be signed by one-fourth as many legal voters as
voted at the last general election, the Council shall either pass
such ordinance within twenty days, or submit the same to a
vote of the people at the next election occurring not less than
thirty days thereafter. If signed by one-half as many legal
voters as voted at the last general election and the next election
occur more than ninety days thereafter, the Council shall call
a special election. If such ordinance receive a majority vote