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SEC. 2. And be it further enacted, That this Act is hereby
declared to be an emergency law and necessary for the imme-
diate preservation of the public health and safety, and having
been passed by a yea and nay vote, supported by three-fifths
of all the members elected to each of the two Houses of the
General Assembly of Maryland, the same shall take effect
from the date of its passage.

Approved March 29, 1947.

CHAPTER 229.
(House Bill 203)

AN ACT to repeal and re-enact, with amendments, Section
784 of the Code of Public Local Laws of Prince George's
County (1943 Flack's Edition), sub-title "Hyattsville",
to provide for the assessment against abutting property
of all costs of street improvements and for the collection
thereof.

SECTION 1. Be it enacted by the General Assembly of Mary-
land, That Section 784 of the Code of Public Local Laws of
Prince George's County (1943 Flack's Edition), sub-title
"Hyattsville", be and the same is hereby repealed and re-
enacted, with amendments, to read as follows:

784. The Mayor and City Council of Hyattsville shall have
the power to assess against the abutting property and collect
from the owners thereof the cost of roadbeds, sidewalks, curbs,
gutters, and street improvements, or any or all, constructed
under the provisions of this sub-heading, including the cost
of street and public alley intersections, all construction costs
including that for drains and culverts where necessary, exca-
vation, preparation of preliminary plans, advertising for bids,
and all costs for the preparation of ordinances pertaining to the
improvement of any such street, cost for verification of title,
for service or mailing of notices to owners of abutting
property as required by law, cost for preparation of assess-
ment collection rolls to be supplied for the use of the Trea-
surer of said city; provided that before any assessment is
levied hereunder, notice in writing of the proposed assess-
ment shall be sent to all owners of property against which
the assessment is proposed to be levied, naming in said
notice a time and place when and at which said owners will
be heard. Said notice may be mailed to the last known