1910 ARTICLE 7.

lected, or by the Mayor and Common Council as other debts of like amount
are recovered in this State by law; provided, however, that the additional
ten per cent, for the expense of collection, specified above, shall not be

charged except in cases wherein the said Mayor and Common Council are
obliged to resort to legal proceedings to make said collection.

STEEETS—ASSESSMENT FOR PAVING.

1910, ch. 341, sec. 232 (p. 695).

542. Whenever the owners of two-thirds of the linear feet of property
binding on any public street, square, ave;nue or other city thoroughfare, or
part thereof, shall petition in writing to the Mayor and Common Council

of Westminster to have such public street, square, avenue or other city
thoroughfare, or part thereof, macadamized, telfordized, paved, renewed

or remade, the Mayor and Common Council of Westminster may by ordi-
nance provide for such street, square, avenue or other city thoroughfare,
or part thereof, being macadamized, telfordized, paved, renewed or remade,
and by such ordinance assess not more than two-thirds of the cost of such
work or improvement, pro rata, upon all the property binding upon such
street, square, avenue or other city thoroughfare, or part thereof so im-
proved, according to the linear feet of property binding upon the same;
and the remaining cost of such work or improvement to be paid by the
Mayor and Common Council of Westminster; provided, that after the in-
troduction of such ordinance and before: its final passage the Mayor and
Common Council of Westminster shall give public notice of the said

ordinance, and that any person interested therein will be heard upon any
matter relating thereto, by the Mayor and Common Council of West-

minster, at a public hearing to be held at the time and place designated
in said notice, which shall be published in one of the newspapers published
in Westminster for two successive weeks before said hearing; and in addi-
tion to such notice the Mayor and Common Council may provide for such

other notice to and hearing of the owners of property affected as it may

deem requisite and proper.

1910, ch. 341, sec. 233 (p 696).

543. The Mayor and Common Council of Westminster may, from
time to time, by ordinance provide for the submission to the qualified
voters of Westminster, at any annual municipal election held in West-
minster, or at any special election called for that purpose by the Mayor and

Common Council, the question of renewing, remaking, repaving and grad-
ing any specified street, square, avenue or other city thoroughfare, or part
thereof, and the payment of not more than two-thirds of the cost thereof by
the abutting property on such streets, pro rata, according to the linear feet
of property bounding thereon, the remaining cost of such work or improve-
ment to be paid by the Mayor and Common Council of Westminster; and
if two-thirds of the vote cast at such election shall be in favor of the said
specified improvement, the Mayor and Common Council of Westminster
shall by ordinance provide for such renewing, remaking, paving and grad-