PRINCE GEORGE'S COUNTY. 4015

1924, oh. 30, sec. 3.

783. The Mayor and Common Council of Mount Rainier, Maryland,
are hereby authorized to do all acts not specifically mentioned herein,
which may be necessary to issue and sell said certificates of indebtedness,
provide for the payment thereof, and the interest thereon, and to arrange
for and construct the sidewalks as provided for herein. The certificates
of indebtedness hereunder shall be the direct obligation of the Mayor and
Common Council of Mount Rainier, Maryland, and the said corporation
shall be responsible therefor.

1924, oh. 30, sec. 4.

784. The Mayor and Common Council of Mount Rainier, Maryland,
shall have power to assess upon and collect from the abutting property,
where sidewalks are constructed the total costs thereof, the owner of said
abutting real estate being assessed in proportion to the number of assess-
able front feet owned, abutting on the sidewalks, where same are con-
structed or are about to be constructed; provided that when property fronts
or abuts on two or more streets, where such improvements are made, or
about to be made, the abutting front feet shall be computed for the purpose
of assessment hereunder as one-half of the total front feet abutting on
said streets.

1924, ch. 30, sec. 5.

785. Such assessments when made, shall constitute a tax or lien upon
such abutting property, with priority over all liens recorded after the pass-
age of this Act, and shall be payable all in cash, or in three equal install-
ments of twelve, twenty-four and thirty-six months respectively from the
date of said assessment, said installments to bear interest at a rate not to
exceed six per centum per annum, and any assessment or part thereof
remaining due and unpaid shall be enforced and collected by the Mayor
and Common Council in the same manner as town taxes are collected,
provided the Mayor and Common Council shall give two weeks' notice to
the owners of all abutting property, by advertisement, published at least
once a week, in a newspaper published in said town or by notices posted in
at least three public places in said town, which advertisement or posted
notices shall state the date on which such assessment shall be made and
warning all abutting owners to appear at the time and place stated in said
advertisement or notices, to show cause, if any there be, why said assess-
ment should not be made as proposed. Any person aggrieved by the action
of the Mayor and Common Council of Mount Rainier shall have the
right to appeal to the Circuit Court for Prince G-eorge's County, Mary-
land, provided such appeal is taken within ten days next succeeding the
day of which said assessment is made.

1924, ch. 30, sec. 6.

786. The Mayor and Common Council of Mount Rainier, Maryland,
shall be required to consider the construction of sidewalks as provided for
herein, whenever five per centum of the property owners, where property