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may be absent therefrom, or a non-resident thereof, or upon whom for
any other reason personal service cannot be had and the officer shall make
return to that effect, service of said notice or process may be made by a
publication of said notice or process once a week for two consecutive weeks
in some newspaper having general circulation in said town, which said
notice by publication shall be as good and effective as personal service.
The affidavit of the publisher or proprietor of said newspaper as to such
publication shall be evidence of the fact thereof.

1929, ch. 1&9, sec. 16.

962. The fiscal year shall begin on the first day of July of each year,
and shall be known by the name of the calendar year in which it begins.

1929, ch. 169, sec. 17.

963. The parts of the general county roads within the limits of said
town are hereby made and declared to be public streets and avenues of
said town, and shall be from time to time improved and repaired, as in the
discretion of the Council the public interests may require and the re-
sources of the town will justify.

1929, ch. 169, sec. 18.

964. The County Commissioners of Montgomery and Prince George's
Counties shall annually pay to the Treasurer of the town that proportion
of the total amount levied for the repair of roads in said counties which
the total amount of property assessed within said town, within the limits
of said respective counties, bears to the total amount of property assessed
in said respective counties, according to the tax books of said counties.

1929, ch. 169, sec. 19.

965. The Commissioners of Montgomery and Prince George's Coun-
ties, Justices of the Peace, Sheriffs, Constables, and all other county and
State officers, shall have, hold and exercise their offices and jurisdiction
in said town within the limits of their respective counties.

1929, ch. 169, sec. 20.

966. From and after the date of the enactment of this Charter, no
subdivision of property within the corporate limits of the town hereafter
made, shall have any force or effect unless and until a map or plat of the
same shall have been filed with the Clerk, and approved by the Council,
by the passage of an ordinance; and no plat or map purporting to indicate
such a subdivision of property within the corporate limits of the town
shall be received for record or recorded among the land records of Mont-
gomery or Prince George's Counties, unless and until the said subdivision
shall have been approved by the Council as aforesaid, and certification of
such approval shall appear upon the face of the plat or map proposed to
be recorded, such certification to be by the Town Clerk.