FRANK BROWN, ESQUIRE, GOVERNOR.

ing and curbing, and stone or other permanent carriage ways,
after first grading and otherwise preparing for proper drain-
age the streets, to be improved according to a uniform system
of grades to be established by said mayor and city council,
and according to which all constructions on said street shall
strictly conform.

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246 H. The total costs of improvements of each street
improved, shall be ascertained by the mayor and city council
when and as said improvements are made, and after deducting
the costs of the street crossings and of the improvements of the
intersections of streets along the line of the street improved,
which street crossing and intersections of streets shall be paid
for entirely and exclusively by the mayor and city council,
the balance of said total costs, after said deductions, shall be
divided by the mayor and city council into four fourths, and
the mayor and city council shall pay two of said fourths, and
the land owners on the sides of the street improved shall pay
the other two of said fourths, according to their linear front
feet on said streets improved, so .that the land owners on each
side of the streets improved, shall pay one of said fourths,
according to their linear foot on said streets improved.

Apportion-
ment of costs

246 I. The land owner on the sides of the improved streets,
shall have ten years from the completion of the work, and the
assessment of the cost of the same, in which to pay their said
two-fourths of the costs of said work, according to their respec-
tive frontage per linear foot on the street improved, by ten
equal annual instalments, with interest upon the same from
date of said completion and assessment of said work, to the
date of the payment of said instalments, and which said assess-
ment shall be made on the completion of said work; and said
interest shall not exceed five per centum per annum, and shall
be paid in annual instalments; said two-fourths of the cost of
said work chargeable to the owners of the land abutting on
the street improved, with the interest on the same, shall be a
lien on the said abutting land per linear front foot, and shall
be collected in like manner as other taxes are collected, and
shall form, when collected, principal and interest, a special
fund to pay the principal and interest on the ten year bonds
hereinafter provided to be issued by the mayor and city coun-
cil of Laurel, against said taxes, and shall be used only for said
purposes.

246 K. The mayor and city council's said two-fourths of the
cost of said work and the whole cost of the said street cross-

How assess-
ments to
be paid.