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LAWS OF MARYLAND.

ceedings in the premises, and the said board
shall also make return of the cost thereof to the
collector of taxes, who. shall proceed to collect
the same as thereunto authorized and directed
by said charter, or by any ordinance passed in
pursuance thereof, and the costs of making the
same shall be a lien upon the abutting property,
and when such cost shall be collected from said
abutting property, or the owner thereof, the
same shall be carried by the collector to the
credit of the fund used by said board in execut-
ing the work so as aforesaid required of them
to be done in the premises.
SEC. 2. And be it further enacted, That section

Repealed and
re-enacted.

one hundred and forty-three D of article twenty-
one of the Code of Public Local Laws be re-
pealed and re-enacted so as to read as follows :
SEC. 143D. The said board of street commis-

Control of
board.

sioners shall have control of the lighting of the
town, with power to provide the material, employ
lighters and other necessary labor, and to make
all needful provisions therefor, and to make such
changes or alterations as from time to time they
may deem proper or necessary, with the power
to contract with any person, corporation or as-
sociation for such lighting, providing that the
cost under any such contract or lighting shall
not exceed the sum of five thousand dollars for
any one year, nor shall such contract be made
for period exceeding ten years, and to provide
the sums of money necessary to pay the cost or
charge under any such contract or lighting, the
mayor and council are hereby authorized and re-

Levy on as-
sessable prop-
erty.

quired annually to levy on the assessable prop-
erty of the town, eight cents on every one hun-
dred-dollars worth of assessable property, and
the sums of money collected upon said levy shall
constitute a separate fund, to be so kept by the

How applied.

collector of taxes, and to be applied to the pay-
ment of such cost or charge under said contract
or lighting, and to and for no other use or pur-
pose, said fund to be paid and drawn out by said
board of street commissioners as directed by
section one hundred and twenty-four of said
charter, and in case the said levy should not be
sufficient to pay the cost of such contract or light-
ing, the mayor and council is hereby authorized