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have the right to anticipate by payment all installments of
the assessment not then due, and any assessment or part
thereof, remaining due and unpaid, shall be enforced as a
tax in the same manner as taxes due the town of Hyattsville
are enforced under the provisions of Chapter 79 of the Acts
of the General Assembly of Maryland of 1908. The Mayor
and Common Council shall have power to make all necessary
regulations as to the notice of such assessments to property
owners.

SEC. 2lA. To effectuate the improvements named in the pre-
ceding section the Mayor and Common Council of Hyattsville
are hereby authorized and empowered to borrow from time
to time, on the credit of the town a sum or sums of money
which shall not, however, in the aggregate at any one time,
exceed ten thousand dollars ($10,000) in amount, and to issue
certificates of indebtedness therefor, which shall be payable
within two years from the date of issuance, with interest not
to exceed the rate of six per cent, per annum, payable annu-
ally, unless of shorter duration, then at the maturity of said
obligation; and the Treasurer of said town is charged with
the custody of any moneys received from the issue or sale of
said certificates of indebtedness as above mentioned, and with
the prompt collection and safekeeping of the moneys arising
from assessments upon sidewalks, curbs, gutters and street
improvements, which last said funds shall be kept as a sepa-
rate account and fund, and no part thereof shall be ever used
for any other purpose than to liquidate the certificates of in-
debtedness and interest thereon, issued for sidewalks, curbs,
gutters and roadbeds and street improvements, which certifi-
cates, when paid, shall be canceled, and, in addition to being
properly iept and filed among the papers of said town, a copy
of each certificate thus canceled shall be entered upon a sepa-
rate book kept for the purpose aforesaid; and, should the
Treasurer of said town ever divert the use of any of said side-
walk, or street improvement fund, he shall, upon conviction,
be fined not more than $1,000, or imprisoned for a term not
exceeding two years, or be both fined and imprisoned/ in the
discretion of the Court.

SEC. 21B. When the Mayor and Common Council shall have
determined to make sidewalk, curb, gutter or roadbed and
street improvements, or all or any, in any street in said town,
they shall thereupon notify, as far as practicable, ealjh prop-
erty owner upon said street so proposed to be improved by
depositing said notice in the United States Postoffice, ad-
dressed to such owner's last-known address, setting forth that
on a certain day to be named therein the Mayor and Common
Council will meet to determine the character and kind of side-