800 ARTICLE 3.

feet wide; thence southerly along said alley and continuing the same course-
to the northwest corner of Aigburth Park property; thence southerly along
the western outline of said property to the north side of Burke Avenue;
thence westerly along said Burke Avenue to the west side of the York
Road; thence southerly along the York Road to the southeast corner of the
property now belonging to the heirs of the late Thomas J. Hunter; thence
westerly along the south outline of said Hunter's property to the south-
west corner of said property; thence northerly along the western outline
of said property and continuing the same course in all to the division
line between the land now owned by Hans Anderson and the heirs of the
late William M. Isaac; thence southwesterly along said outline and con-
tinuing the same course to the west side of Bosley Avenue; thence north-
erly along the west side of said avenue to the north side of Susquehanna
Avenue; thence westerly along said avenue and continuing the same course
to intersect the outline of the lands now belonging to Thomas W. Offutt
and Samuel Harden; and thence bounding northerly on said outline to
place of beginning.

And that the said special taxes when so collected are to be paid over
to the Treasurer and Collector of Baltimore County to be used exclusively
to pay for the laying of sidewalks, curbs, gutters and sewers and other
improvements in said Village of Towson; that the total cost of all such
improvements undertaken for any one year is not to exceed the amount
of special annual levy; that all such improvements are to be made on the
written application ordered by the Board of Governors of the Towson-
town Club to the Board of County Commissioners of Baltimore County;
that all contracts amounting to over fifty dollars are to be let on a com-
petitive basis to the lowest responsible bidder and executed according to
the grades and specifications and under the supervision of the Baltimore
County Roads Engineer, provided that no change of more than six inches
in the grade of sidewalks shall be made without the consent in writing
of the adjacent land owner; and provided also, that no change in the
grade of sidewalks or other improvements shall be made which may de-
stroy or injure shade trees unless with the consent in writing of the adja-
cent land owner; and that the levy herein provided for shall be made if
twenty-five or more taxpayers, residents of said Village of Towson as
herein described, shall petition the Board of County Commissioners asking
for such special levy to be made.

1914, ch. 861, sec. 2. B. Co. C. (1916), sec. 630. 1928, sec. 768.
768. That whenever such petition is filed, the Board of County Com-
missioners shall give notice of the filing thereof by publication in two
newspapers published in the Village of Towson, for two successive weeks
immediately following the filing of such petition, and if a petition is filed
prior to said annual levy objecting to such a special levy, signed by an
equal or larger number of taxpayers, residents of said Village of Towson,
representing a larger amount of taxable property therein than by the par-
ties petitioning therefor, then the said Board of County Commissioners
shall not make such additional levy for that year.