102 LAWS OF MARYLAND. [CH. 55

able penalty may be imposed upon said railroad company not
to exceed however, Fifty Dollars, by said Ordinance.

SEC. 5. Be it enacted, That whenever the Mayor and
Council of Hagerstown shall proceed to exercise the powers
vested in them by Sections 1 and 2 of this Act, and shall pro-
vide by general and special ordinance for grading, making,
paving, concreting, macadamizing and curbing, or for regrad-
ing, remaking, repaving, reconcreting, remacadamizing and re-
curbing of any street, highway, lane or alley in Hagerstown,
or part thereof; that portion of the costs of said grading, mak-
ing, paving, concreting, macadamizing and curbing, or of re-
grading, remaking, repaving, reconcreting and remacadamiz-
ing and recurbing of any such street, highway, lane or alley,
or any portion thereof, which shall devolve upon the Mayor
and Council of Hagerstown, shall be provided for in manner
following, that is to say, after the entire cost of grading, mak-
ing, paving, concreting, macadamizing and curbing, or for re-
grading, remaking, repaving, reconcreting, remacadamizing
and recurbing any such street, highway, lane or alley has been
fully determined, and the portion of the cost thereof which
the Mayor and Council shall be obliged to pay, been fully and
definitely ascertained and determined, the Mayor and Council
is authorized and empowered to levy on the assessable prop-
erty of said town, to be collected as other taxes axe collected, a
sum of money sufficient to pay the Mayor and Council's due
and proper portion of said costs as previously ascertained for
grading, making, paving, concreting, macadamizing and curb-
ing, or for regrading, remaking, repaving, reconcreting, re-
macadamizing and recurbing, as above set forth, said street,
highway, lane or alley, or any portion thereof, and the said
levy for the purpose aforesaid shall only be made once in any
one year and that shall be at the time of the making of the
annual levy of taxes by the Mayor and Council and to be in-
cluded therein, or the said Mayor and Council may pay its por-
tion of the costs of said work as above set forth, from the Gen-
eral Purpose Fund of said City.

SEC. 6. Be it enacted, That this Act shall take effect from
the first day of June, 1916.

Approved March 21st, 1916.