PRINCE GEORGE'S COUNTY. 3789

of concrete or other permanent material, in any of the streets of the Town
of Colmar Manor, the sidewalks including curbs to be of such width as
may be determined by the Mayor and Council and of a width sufficient
for the needs of said street, and shall assess, at any time as the said Mayor
and Council shall deem proper and after ten days' notice to the owners,
upon the land abutting said improvements the cost thereof, street and
public alley intersections to be assessed against the property owners half
way down each square, which assessments for sidewalks, curbs, gutters or
roadbed and street improvements, or for all or any, shall be a lien upon
such abutting property and shall be payable all cash, or in not more than
ten equal annual instalments beginning one year from the date of said
assessment, with interest at the rate of six per centum per annum, and the
person assessed or any one on his behalf shall at any time have the right
to anticipate by payment of all instalments of the assessment not then due,
and any assessment or part thereof remaining due and unpaid shall be
enforced as a tax and upon neglect or refusal to pay the amount so assessed
and expended, the amount may be collected from said owners by suit be-
fore a justice of the peace or the circuit court and the judgment of such
court shall become a first lien upon such properties. The Mayor and
Council shall have power to make all necessary regulations as to the notice
of assessments to property owners made under this section. They shall
have full power to provide for such fines, penalties and punishment for
the breach of its ordinances as it may think proper. The Justice of the
Peace may impose such fines or penalties for the breach of such ordinances
and in default of payment he may commit the offender to confinement
for a period of not more than thirty days in the County Jail.

1927, ch. 178, sec. 12.

250. To effectuate the improvements named in the preceding section,
the Mayor and Council of Colmar Manor are hereby authorized and em-
powered to borrow from time to time on the credit of the town a sum or
sums of money, not to exceed at any time eight per centum of the assessed
valuation of the real property of the Town of Colmar Manor; to issue
certificates of indebtedness therefor, which shall be payable within ten
years from the date of issuance, with interest not to exceed the rate of
six per centum per annum, payable annually, unless of shorter duration,
then at the maturity of said obligation; and the Treasurer of the town is
charged with the custody of any moneys received from the issues of sale
of said certificates of indebtedness as above mentioned. The Clerk of said
town shall be charged with the prompt collection of the moneys arising
from assessment for sidewalks, curbs, gutters and street improvements,
said funds to be turned over to the Treasurer of said town by the Clerk,
and the Treasurer of said town shall be charged with the safe keeping
thereof, and said funds shall be kept as a separate account and fund, and
no part thereof shall ever be used for any other purpose than to liquidate
the certificates of indebtedness, and interest thereon, issued for sidewalks,
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