PRINCE GEORGE'S COUNTY. 4017

1927, ch. 82, sec. 5.

790. The Mayor and Common Council of Mount Rainier, Maryland,
shall have power to assess 'against the abutting property and collect from
the owners thereof the cost of roadways, alleys, curbs, sidewalks and gut-
ters, assessment being in proportion to the number of assessable front feet
owned, abutting on the streets where same are constructed 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 here-
under as one-half of the total front feet abutting on said improvements.

1927, ch. 82, sec. 6.

791. Such assessments when made, shall constitute a tax or lien upon
such abutting property with priority over all liens recorded after the pas-
sage of this Act, and shall be payable in ten equal annual installments
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 col-
lected, 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 one or more newspapers published in Mount
Rainier and if there be no such paper or if the charges of such paper for
said advertising be in excess of the standard rates heretofore adopted by
the newspaper editors of Prince George's County for similar advertise-
ments, than in a newspaper published in Prince George's County which
has a circulation in Mount Rainier which advertising 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 assessment should not be made as
proposed. Any person aggrieved by the action of the Mayor and Com-
mon Council of Mount Rainier shall have the right to appeal to the Cir-
cuit Court for Prince George's County, Maryland, provided such appeal
is taken within ten days next succeeding the day on which said assessment
is made.

1927, ch. 82, sec. 7.

792. The Mayor and Common Council of Mount Rainier, Maryland,
shall give prior consideration to the construction of roadways, alleys,
curbs, sidewalks and gutters as provided for herein whenever the owners
of fifty-one per centum (51 %) of the property, where property shall a But
upon such streets, shall petition the said Mayor and 'Common Council to
that effect, but the Mayor and Common Council of Mount Rainier shall
have the discretion and final determination as to the construction of all of
said work, notwithstanding such petition.*

*Ch. 82, 1927, adopted by voters in accordance with provisions of sec. 8 of said
Act.