WM. PRESTON LANE, JR., GOVERNOR. 1925

under shall be the direct obligation of the Mayor and Town
Council of Cheverly, Maryland, and the said corporation
shall be responsible therefor.

(c) The Mayor and Town Council of Cheverly, Maryland,
shall have power to assess against the abutting property
and collect from the owners thereof the cost of construction
or of reconstruction to roadways, alleys, curbs, sidewalks and
gutters and storm water sewers, assessment being in pro-
portion to the number of assessable front feet owned, abut-
ting on the streets where same are constructed or recon-
structed or are about to be constructed or reconstructed
provided, that when property fronts or abuts on two or more
streets, where such improvements or reconstructions are
made, or about to be made, the abutting front feet shall be
computed for the purpose of assessment hereunder as one-
half of the total feet abutting on said improvements.

(d) Such assessments when made, shall constitute a tax
or lien upon such abutting property with priority over all
liens recorded after April 26, 1939, and shall be payable in
ten equal 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 Town Council in the same manner as town
taxes are collected, provided the Mayor and Town 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 Prince George's
County which has a circulation in the Town of Cheverly,
which advertisement 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 notice, to show cause, if any there be, why said assess-
ment should not be made as proposed. Any person aggrieved
by the action of the Mayor and Town Council of Cheverly
shall have the right to appeal to the Circuit Court for Prince
George's County, Maryland, provided such appeal is taken
within ten days next succeeding the day on which said assess-
ment is made.

(e) The Mayor and Town Council of Cheverly, Maryland,
shall give prior consideration to the construction or recon-
struction of roadways, alleys, curbs, sidewalks and gutters
and storm water sewers as provided for herein whenever the
owners of fifty-one per centum (51%) of the property, where
property shall abut upon such streets, shall petition the said
Mayor and Town Council to that effect, but the Mayor and