1026 LAWS OF MARYLAND.

walk, curb, gutter or roadbed and street improvement, or all
or any to be laidj and notifying said owner to appear at said
meeting and express his views upon the questions, if he so de-
sires; at said meeting the Mayor and Common Council shall
hear any suggestions of said abutting owners, and immedi-
ately thereafter they shall determine the character and kind
of work to be done, which said determination shall be made
known by publication in the next succeeding issue of one or
more of the newspapers published in the town, and shall be
final and conclusive as to the kind and character of the street
improvements, unless a majority of the owners abutting the
proposed improvements and chargeable with the cost thereof,
shall in one week from said publication file with the Mayor
and Common Council a petition in writing, signed by said
majority of owners, asking for a different kind of sidewalk,
curb, gutter and street improvement, or any of them, in which
event the Mayor and Common Council shall forthwith adopt
the sidewalk, curb, gutter or street improvement, or all, in
said petition requested, instead of the one theretofore selected
by them, and thereafter, as soon as practicable, begin and with
all possible expedition complete said proposed improvements.
If a majority of the owners abutting the proposed improve-
ments and chargeable with the cost thereof shall within the
time above specified file with the Mayor and Common Council
a petition in writing, signed by said majority of owners, asking
that the proposed improvements be made by contract, said im-
provements shall be made by contract.

SEC. 21c. The Mayor and Common Council are hereby au-
thorized to make such sidewalk, curb, gutter, roadbed and
street improvements, except in those cases where the majority
of the owners abutting the proposed improvements have so
requested, as herein provided, that said improvements be made
by contract, either by doing the work themselves without let-
ting bids, or by contracting for the same as provided in Section
34 of Chapter 79 of the Acts of the General Assembly of Mary-
land of 1908. All contractors for such street improvements
shall give bond in such sum as the Mayor and Common Council
shall require, with sufficient sureties, to be approved by the
Mayor and Common Council, for the faithful performance or
their contract.

SEC. 2. And be it enacted. That this Act shall have no force
or effect unless the same shall be approved by a majority of
the votes .cast at a special election to be held in the said town
of Hyattsville, and that the'said special election shall be held
at the same time and place as the election to be held in the
said town on the first Monday in May, 1910, for Mayor and
Common Council for said town, for which said special election