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in all cases, award the contract for such work to the lowest responsible
bidder therefor reserving at all times the right to reject any and all bids
received. All contractors for such street improvements shall give bond
in such sum as the Mayor and Common Council shall require, with suffi-

cient surety or sureties, to be approved by the Mayor and Common Coun-
cil, for the faithful performance of their contract. The Mayor and Com-
mon Council shall employ a competent engineer at such compensation as
may be determined by them in carrying out the objects of this Act, and
where an engineer is employed his compensation to be considered a part

of the cost of the improvements.

1929, ch. 395, sec. 5.

884. The Mayor and Common Council shall cause to be levied against
the abutting property owners the entire cost of said improvement, each
lot being assessed the proportionate share of the total cost which the por-
tion of said lot abutting on said street bears to the entire length so to be
improved provided however, that wherever any street is to be paved abut-
ting on which there may be any property belonging to or dedicated to the
use of said town, any or all of such paving improvements in front of such
property or dedication shall be paid for by said town in the same ratio
as herein applied to individuals on the said street and to be paid for out
of said town's funds. Said assessment shall become due and payable sixty
(60) days after the levying thereof and shall be a lien upon such abutting
property and shall be payable all cash or in twelve equal installments of
six, twelve, eighteen, twenty-four, thirty, thirty-six, forty-two, forty-eight,
fifty-four, sixty, sixty-six, and seventy-two months respectively, from said

due date with interest at the rate of six (6) per centum per annum and the
person assessed or any one on his behalf shall at any time have the right
to anticipate by payment any or all installments of the assessment not then
due and any assessment or part thereof remaining due or unpaid be en-
forced as a tax in the same manner as taxes due the town of Riverdale
are enforced.*

ROADS.+

1910, ch. 90, sec. 278. 1912 Code, sec. 513. 1914, ch. 801, sec. 278.
1922, oh. 200, sec. 278.

885. There shall be a system of free public roads and bridges in Prince

George's County, and all matters affecting roads and bridges in said county
shall be under the control of the Board of County Commissioners of said
county, except in incorporated towns, and except insofar as control is
conferred upon the district road committees, and the district road super-
visors created by this Act.

State v. Amer. Bonding Co., 128 Md. 268.

*Ch. 395, 1929, was ratified by the voters as provided for by sec. 6 of said Act.

+Prince George's County has been authorized to issue bonds for roads as follows
1910, ch. 90, $16,000; 1920, ch. 377, $60,000; 1920, ch. 380, $20,000; 1924, ch. 171,
$40,000; 1927, ch. 176, $106,000 (1929, ch. 35, cured defect in ch. 176); 1927 ch 171
$275,000; 1929, oh. 200, $550,000.