824 LAWS OF MARYLAND. [CH. 448
erly, said new section to be known as Section 13A and
to follow immediately after Section 13 of said Chapter,
and to confer additional powers upon the Mayor and
Town Council of Cheverly in Prince George's County.
SECTION 1. Be it enacted by the General Assembly of
Maryland, That a new section be and it is hereby added to
Chapter 200 of the Acts of the General Assembly of Mary-
land of 1931, said new section to be known as Section 13A,
to follow immediately after Section 13 of said Chapter and
to read as follows:
13A. The Mayor and Town Council of Cheverly, shall
have full power by ordinance to establish the grades of the
streets, gutters and sidewalks of said town, fix the width
thereof and prescribe the material of which they shall be
constructed; to cause the streets, sidewalks or alleys to be
paved or otherwise improved, as the best interest of the
town may require, and to lay storm sewers in said town,
and to pay the cost of all such work, and assess said cost,
or any part thereof, against the abutting property which
they shall find to be specially benefited thereby according to
the linear frontage of said property, and they shall also
provide by ordinance the time and terms upon which pay-
ment of said assessment for such work and improvement
shall be made by said property owners, and the rate of in-
terest which shall be charged upon the deferred payments;
assessments so levied as aforesaid shall be a lien upon the
property against which they are charged superior to all
other liens from the date of the notice of such assessment,
and shall be collected as a tax in a manner similar to other
taxes.
(b). In the event that provision shall be made for the
payment of the assessments aforesaid in installments when
the same shall become due, the whole amount thereof, and
of such assessment shall immediately become due and pay-
able. All assessments levied hereunder whenever the same
shall become overdue according to the terms of the ordi-
nance providing therefor, or by reason of the nonpayment
of any installment thereof, may be collected by action in
equity, or in the same manner as general taxes due said
town are now or may hereafter be collected under the pro-
visions of the charter of said town, and any sale made for
the non-payment of such assessment, and any deed made
pursuant to such sale shall be entitled to all the presump-
tions as to validity that now or may hereafter attach to
sales and deeds made for default in payment of general
taxes due said town; and when any real property assessed
as herein provided for shall become liable to sale for any
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