PRINCE GEOBGE S COUNTY.

3897

said respective pieces of real estate so sold to it, for the taxes and/or as-
sessments, interest, penalties and costs so assessed and charged against the
same and to obtain a decree for the enforcement thereof. The owner or
owners of each piece of real estate upon which such taxes and/or assess-
ments, interest, penalties and costs are sought to be enforced, shall be made
parties defendant in said suit, and, if residents of the State of Maryland,
shall be personally served with process, and if non-residents, shall be
served with process by publication, as is provided by law.

The said Court is hereby given jurisdiction to hear and determine such
causes, establish such liens and decree the enforcement thereof. If said
Court shall determine that said taxes and/or assessments were legally
levied or made by said Mayor and Common Council, any defect or irregu-
larity in the tax and/or assessment sale or in the proceeding upon the
report thereof, shall not be a defense to any of such suits. All such decrees
shall be enforced in the same manner as decrees of said Court are author-
ized to be enforced by law.

STREET IMPROVEMENTS.

1910, ch. 305, sec. 21. 1912 Code, sec. 312.

538. The Mayor and Common Council shall cause to be constructed
in such cases as they may determine to be necessary for the public benefit,
and for the interest of the abutting owners, sidewalks, curbs, gutters and
roadbed and street improvements, in any of the streets of said town, the
sidewalks including curbs, to be not less than four feet in width, of brick,
concrete, cement or other material, and the roadbeds and gutters of the
said streets or highways of broken stone, gravel or other suitable material,
and of a width sufficient for the needs of said street, and shall assess, at
any time as the said Mayor and Common Council shall deem proper and
after ten days' notice to the owners, upon the land abutting said improve-
ments the costs thereof, except street and public alley intersections, which
assessments for sidewalks, curbs, gutters or roadbeds and street improve-
ments, or for all or any, shall be a lien upon such abutting property and
shall be payable all cash, or in four equal instalments of six, twelve, eight-
een and twenty-four months respectively, from the date of said assess-
ment, with interest at the rate of six per centum per annum, and the per-
son assessed or any one on his behalf shall at any time have the right to
anticipate by payment all instalments of the assessment not then due, and
any assessment or part thereof remaining due and unpaid shall be enforced
as a tax in the same manner as taxes due the town of Hyattsville under
the provisions of Chapter 79 of the Acts of the General Assembly of Mary-
land of 1908. The Mayor and Common Council shall have power to make
all necessary regulations as to the notice of such assessments to propertv
owners.

See note to sec. 524.

Smith v. Hyattsville, 105 Md 318. Carr v. Hyattsville, 115 Md. 545.