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of owners, asking for a different kind of sidewalk, curb, gutter and street
improvement, or any of them, in which event, the Mayor and Common
Council shall forthwith adopt the sidewalk, curb, gutter or street improve-
ment, or all, in said petition requested, instead of the one theretofore
selected by them, and thereafter, as soon as practicable, begin, and with
all possible expedition complete, said proposed improvements If a ma-
jority of the owners abutting the proposed improvements, and chargeable
with the cost thereof, shall, within the time above specified, file with the
Mayor and Common Council a petition in writing, signed by said ma-
jority of owners, asking that the proposed improvements be made by con-
tract, said improvements shall be made by contract.

1910, ch 305, sec 21C 1912 Code, sec 315

541. The Mayor and Common Council are hereby authorized to make
such sidewalks, curbs, gutters, road bed and street improvement except in
those cases where the majority of the owners abutting the proposed im-
provement have so requested, as herein provided, that said improvements
be made by contract, either by doing the work themselves without letting
bids, or by contracting for the same as provided in Section 555 All con-
tractors for such street improvements shall give bond in such sum as the
Mayor and Common Council shall require, with sufficient sureties, to be
appioved by the Mayor and Common Council for the faithful performance
of their contract *

MANUFACTURING PLANTS

1908, ch 79, sec 22 1912 Code, sec 318

542. The Mayor and Common Council shall have the power to exempt
manufacturing plants from taxation, and the property so exempt shall be
likewise exempted from county taxation; provided, further, that no manu-
facturing establishment shall be maintained within the corporate limits
of the town of Hyattsville, which shall at any time prove a nuisance or
menace to health

PUBLICATION OF TOWN EXPENSES

1908, oh 79, sec 23 1912 Code, sec 319 1927 ch 164

543. It shall be the duty of the Mayor and Common Council of Hyatts-
ville, at least ten days before each regular election, to have prepared, in
pamphlet form, a detailed statement of the financial condition of the town,
including receipts and expenses of all kinds whatsoever, for the preceding
year At least ten days before such election it shall cause the same to be
published in one newspaper of the town of Hyattsville, or cause a copy
thereof to be mailed, postpaid, to each citizen of said town

*Ch 305, 1910, was submitted to a vote of the people of Hyattsville in May, 1910,
and carried. The election was contested, but upheld Carr v Hyattsville, 115 Md
545 Sec 3 of said ch 305 repealed all laws inconsistent therewith