4580 ARTICLE 21.

1927, ch. 137, sec. 3.

235. To pay for such improvements the Mayor and Council are hereby
authorized and empowered to borrow, upon the faith and credit of said
town, such sum of money as may be necessary therefor to be secured by
the notes of the town signed by the Mayor and Town Clerk, provided that
at no time shall the floating indebtedness of the town exceed the sum of

one-half of one per centum of the taxable basis of the town as provided
in Section 203 of this Article, and they are hereby authorized and empow-
ered to pay one-half of the cost of such improvements to streets, alleys,
and curbs out of said funds so borrowed as above provided.

1927, ch. 137, sec. 4.

236. And they are further authorized and empowered to levy a pro-
rata front foot assessment against the abutting property on the streets,
alleys, or highways improved under the provisions of this Act, for the
remaining one-half of said cost—one-fourth of the whole cost of such
improved streets, alleys or highways shall be assessed against abutting
property on one side of the street improved, and the remaining one-fourth
assessed against abutting property on the other side of the Street.

1927, ch. 137, sec. 5.

237. One-half the cost of constructing curbs under this act shall be
paid by the Mayor and Council of Easton, and the remaining one-half
shall be assessed against the abutting property, and that the whole cost

of constructing sidewalks under this act, shall be assessed against the
abutting property.

1927, ch. 137, sec. 6.

238. The Mayor and Council shall provide by Ordinance for assess-
ing against the property abutting on the streets, alleys or highways im-
proved, the portion of the cost of said improvements to be charged against
said property as hereinbefore provided, and for the collection of the same
by the Town Clerk as other assessments are levied and collected, and said
assessment for the cost of said improvements shall be a lien upon said
abutting properties—And the owners of said property shall be permitted
to pay the amount assessed against their respective properties in equal
portions in one and two years from the date of said assessment; deferred
payments to bear interest from said date.*

1920, ch. 27 ,sec. 1.

239. The Mayor and Council of Easton is hereby authorized and em-
powered to levy and impose upon the several properties abutting upon
Railroad Avenue, or Goldsborough Street, from East Avenue eastward
to the old town limits at a point improved by a State or State-Aid road,
and upon Port Street from Washington Street westward to the old town
limits at a point improved by a State or State-Aid road, a pro rata front

*Sec. 7, oh. 137, 1927, repealed all laws inconsistent therewith.