3810 ARTICLE 17.

1929, ch. 137, sec. 4.

283. The Cottage City Commission shall have power to assess against
the abutting property and collect from the owners thereof the cost of road-
ways, alleys, curbs, sidewalks and gutters, the assessment being in pro-
portion to the number of assessable front feet owned, abutting on the

streets where same are constructed or are about to be constructed; pro-
vided that when property fronts or abuts on two or more streets, where
such improvements are made, or about to be made, the abutting front feet
shall be computed for the purpose of assessment hereunder as one-half of
the total front feet abutting on said improvements.

1929, ch. 137, sec. 5.

284. Such assessments when made, shall constitute a tax or lien upon
such abutting property with priority over all liens recorded after the pas-
sage of this Act, and shall be payable in ten equal annual installments
from the date of said assessment, said installments to bear interest at a
rate not to exceed six per centum per annum, and any assessment or part
thereof remaining due and unpaid shall be enforced and collected by the
Cottage City Commission in the same manner as town taxes are collected,
provided the Cottage City Commission shall give two weeks' notice to the

owners of all abutting property, by advertisement, published at least once
a week in one or more newspapers published in Prince George's County,
Maryland, which has a circulation in Cottage City, which advertising shall

state the date on which such assessment shall be made and warning all
abutting property owners to appear at the time and place stated in said
advertisement or notice, to show cause, if any there be, why said assess-
ment should not be made as proposed. Any person aggrieved by the action
of the Cottage City Commission shall have the right to appeal to the Cir-
cuit Court for Prince George's County, Maryland, provided such appeal
is taken within ten days next succeeding the day on which said assess-
ment is made.

1929, ch. 137, sec. 6.

285. The Cottage City Commission shall not construct or improve
roadways, alleys, curbs, sidewalks and gutters under this Act unless and
until the owners of fifty-one per centum (51%) of the property abutting

streets where such improvements are proposed shall petition the said Cot-
tage City Commission to that effect, but the Cottage City Commission

shall have the discretion and final determination as to the construction of
all said work, notwithstanding such petition.

1929, ch. 137, sec. 7.

286. The provisions of this Act shall not become effective until the
same shall be submitted to and approved by the qualified voters of the
town of Cottage City, Maryland, as hereinafter provided.

The date of said election shall be fixed by the Cottage City Commis-

sion, and notice thereof shall be given by advertisement in one or more
newspapers published in Prince George's County, Maryland, which have