398 ARTICLE 2.

1898, ch. 349, sec. 31. 1900, ch. 125, sec. 31.

150. Said Commissioners shall have full power to construct, or cause
to be constructed, such piers, docks, sea walls, dykes, and other improve-
ments as it may from time to time deem necessary or convenient for the
accommodation of the public, for amusement or business purposes, or for
protection or preservation of its water front, and to fix such charges and
regulations as said Commissioners may deem proper for the use and occu-
pation thereof, and to provide for payment for work done, or to be done,
under contract, for the protection and preservation of the shore or water
front on Chesapeake Bay, within the limits of Arundel-on-the-Bay, the
said' Commissioners may issue the negotiable bonds of the corporation
to an amount not exceeding ten thousand dollars in the aggregate, any
of the said bonds having not less than one nor more than twenty years to
run from its respective date, to be redeemable at the pleasure of the Com-
missioners at any time upon thirty days' notice of their desire so to do,
published in a newspaper of general circulation in Annapolis, Maryland.
Such bonds shall be executed by the Mayor and countersigned by the sec-
retary after having been authorized by the Commissioners by order duly
entered of record, and shall bear not exceeding five per cent, interest per
annum, payable semi-annually, all made payable at the office of the treas-
urer. They shall be disposed of at not less than par, and they or their
proceeds shall be devoted exclusively to and in payment of said work
of protection and preservation of said water front or shore of Chesapeake
Bay, including piling already done during the year 1897. The expense
of the construction of said works for the protection and preservation of
said shore or water front on Chesapeake Bay shall be borne by and im-
posed upon the blocks within said corporate limits as shown by the plot
of Arundel-on-the-Bay, duly recorded on the records of said Anne Arun-
del County, as follows, and in the proportion as follows, to wit: One-half
or fifty per cent, of the cost of said works of protection and preservation
shall be imposed upon the lots, severally, composing the east half of blocks
three, four, five, six, seven, eight, nine, ten and eleven, and lots A, B,
C, D, E, F, G, H, I and K. Block twelve; one-fourth of twenty-five per
cent, of the cost of such works shall be imposed upon the lots, severally,
composing the west half of all of said blocks numbers three, four, five,
six, seven, eight, nine, ten and eleven; the remaining one-fourth, or twen-
ty-five per cent, of the cost of such works shall be imposed upon the lots,
severally, composing blocks fourteen, fifteen, sixteen, seventeen, eighteen,
nineteen, twenty, twenty-one and twenty-two. Each lot above named shall
bear its respective proportion of said cost above specified, irrespective of
any valuation of any improvement upon it, and the amount of money
necessary to be collected in each year upon each of said lots to meet the
amount so to be severally imposed upon it, shall be certified by the Sec-
retary of said Commissioners of Arundel-on-the-Bay, upon an order and
finding of said Commissioners to be duly entered of record, as to the
amount to be charged against such lot for that year as its due share of
the cost of said work to be raised that year, to the County Commissioners