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law pioviding for the registration of voteis in the town of Hyattsville
The election for the councilmen provided for and cieated b\ this Act,
and all subsequent elections, and all necessary arrangements therefor, in
eluding the appointment and selection of judges and clerks of election
for said annexed territory, shall be provided for in the same manner and
in accoidance with the public local laws of Mar-viand applicable to the
election of officers in said town All voteis so registered shall be entitled
to vote for the councilmen cieated by this Act and for all other elective
officers of said town

1927, ch 172, sec 5

491. Persons resident and property situate within the territory which
by this Act is annexed to the town of Hyattsville, shall be exempt from
taxation by said Mayor and Common Council of Hyattsville for the fiscal
year 1927, 1928 Beginning with the municipal levy to be made in the
year 1928, the persons so lesident and the pioperty so situate shall be
subject to the same taxes, assessments, license fees and charges as are now
imposed upon said town or may be hereafter imposed thereon The tieas-
urer of the said town of Hyattsville is authorized and required, in addi-
tion to the duties heretofore imposed upon him, to collect all municipal
taxes, assessments, license fees and charges levied, assessed and imposed
by the said Mayor and Common Council upon the persons resident and
property situate within said annexed territory, which shall be levied or
assessed by the said Mayor and Common Council

1927, ch 172, sec 6

492. All roads, streets, avenues or alleys lying within the territory
annexed to the said town by this Act, and heretofore dedicated or acquired
by condemnation proceedings under the provisions of any of the Laws of
Maryland, or the Common Law, and in actual general use as a road, street,
avenue or alley, shall be held to be validly constituted public highways of
the town of Hyattsville

The said Mayor and Common Council of Hyattsville, whenever it shall
determine it to be necessaiy for the public benefit, that any road, street,
avenue or alley should be improved, which is not, by the provisions of this
Act, made a public highway of said town, it shall take supervision and
control of the same, and such road, street, avenue or alley shall there-
upon become a public highway of the town of Hyattsville

The said Mayor and Common Council may, after it shall have deter
mined it to be necessary for the public benefit, constiuct sidewalks, curbs,
gutters and roadbed and street improvements in any road, street, or avenue
in said annexed territory made a public highway of said town by this Act,
or by said Mayor and Common Council acting under the power and au-
thority granted by this Act, (which improvements may be constiucted all
at the same time or at different times) and, after the completion of said
improvements, or any of them, it shall assess the cost thereof upon the
land abutting the same The constiuction of said sidewalks, curbs, gutters