3898 ARTICLE 17.

1910, ch. 305, sec. 21A. 1912 Code, sec. 313. 1918, ch. 377. 1922, ch. 364.

1927, ch. 163.

539. To effectuate the improvements named in the preceding section,
the Mayor and Common Council of Hyattsville are hereby authorized and
empowered to borrow from time to time, on the credit of the town, a sum
or sums of money, which shall not, however, in the aggregate at any one
time exceed one hundred thousand dollars in amount; and to issue certifi-
cates of indebtedness therefor, which shall be payable within two years
from the date of issuance, with interest not to exceed the rate of six per
cent, per annum payable quarterly; and the treasurer of said town is
charged with the custody of any moneys received from the issues of sale
of said certificates of indebtedness as above mentioned and with the prompt
collection and safe keeping of the moneys arising from assessments upon
sidewalks, curbs, gutters and street improvements which last 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, curbs, gutters and
roadbed and street improvements, which certificates when paid, shall be
cancelled and in addition to being properly kept and filed among the papers
of said town, a copy of which certificates thus cancelled shall be entered
upon a separate book kept for the purpose aforesaid; and should the treas-
urer of said town ever divert the use of any of said sidewalk or street
improvement fund, he shall upon conviction, be fined not more than $1,000
tor imprisoned for a term not exceeding two years, or both fined and im-
prisoned in the discretion of the court.

Carr v. Hyattsville, 115 Md. 545.

1910, oh. 305, sec. 21B. 1912 Code, sec. 314.

540. When the Mayor and Common Council shall have determined to
make sidewalk, curb, gutter or roadbed and street improvements or all or
any, in any street in said town, they shall thereupon notify, as far as prac-
ticable, each property owner upon said street proposed to be improved,
by depositing said notice in the United States Post Office addressed to
such owner's last known address, setting forth that on a certain day to
be named therein, the Mayor and Common Council will meet to determine
the character and kind of curb, gutter or roadbed and street improvement,
or any or all, to be laid, and notifying said owner to appear at said meet-
ing, and express his views upon the questions, if he so desire; at said
meeting the Mayor and Common Council shall hear any suggestions of
said abutting owners, and immediately thereafter they shall determine the
character and kind of work to be done, which said determination shall be
made known by publication in the next succeeding issue of one or more
of the papers published in the town, and shall be final and conclusive as
to the kind and character of the street improvements, unless a majority
of the owners abutting the proposed improvements, and chargeable with
the cost thereof shall, in one week from said publication, file with the
Mayor and Common Council a petition in writing signed by said majority