348 LAWS OF MARYLAND. [CH. 229

address of the owner, or served in person upon any adult
occupying the premises, or in case of vacant or unimproved
property, posted upon the premises.

The Mayor and City Council of Hyattsville shall levy against
each parcel of land abutting roadbeds, sidewalks, curbs,
gutters or street improvements, an assessment for a share of
the total cost of such improvements equal to the proportion
thereof that the number of feet in said parcel abutting on said
improvements bears to the total assessable frontage on the
part of said street so improved. Such assessments when made
shall constitute a tax lien upon such, abutting property and
shall bear interest at the rate not to exceed six per cent per
annum, and the principal of such assessment shall be payable
in twenty equal semi-annual installments from the date of
said assessment, and at the time of the payment of each of
the said installments there shall be due and payable the in-
terest on such installment and on the balance of the principal
then unpaid, and the owner or owners of any property
assessed or any one on his or their behalf shall at any time
have the right to anticipate by payment all installments, with
interest to date, of the assessment not then due, and any
assessment or part thereof remaining due and unpaid shall be
enforced and collected by the Mayor and City Council of
Hyattsville in the same manner as special assessments are
now enforced and collected as now or hereafter prescribed and
required by law; and the treasurer of said city is charged
with the custody of any moneys received from the sale of
said bonds, certificates of indebtedness as above mentioned,
and with the prompt collection and safe keeping of the moneys.
arising from assessments upon roadbeds, sidewalks, curbs,
gutters and street improvements, which last said funds shall
be kept as a separate account and fund, and no part thereof
shall ever be used for any other purpose than to liquidate the
bonds or certificates of indebtedness, and interest thereon,
issued for sidewalks, curbs, gutters, roadbeds, and street im-
provements, which bonds and certificates when paid shall be
cancelled and kept and filed among the papers of said city;
and should the treasurer of said city ever divert the use of
any of said sidewalk or street improvement fund, he shall,
upon conviction, be fined not more than One Thousand Dol-
lars or imprisoned for a term not exceeding two years or be
both fined and imprisoned in the discretion of the Court.

SEC. 2. And be it further enacted, That this Act .shall take
effect June 1, 1947.

Approved March 29, 1947.