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Session Laws, 1920
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612 LAWS OF MARYLAND. [CH. 353

borrow money to borrow such additional sum or sums from
time to time as may be needed to carry out the provisions of
this Act and to issue certificates of indebtedness as evidence
thereof. All sums so borrowed shall be kept in a separate
account, to be known as "The Street Improvement Account,"
and shall be borrowed for no longer period than shall be
sufficient to collect the special assessments provided for to
construct improvements made hereunder and shall be repaid
out of the special assessments aforesaid when the same shall
be collected.

SEC. 3. Be it further enaeAed, That the Mayor and Coun-
cil shall have the power and authority to divide such special
assessments into two or more installments if the Mayor and
Council in their discretion shall so ordain and in that event
provision shall be made for the payment of the assessments
aforesaid in installments and upon a failure to pay any one or
more of said installments when the same shall become due,
the whole amount thereof, and if such assessment shall im-
mediately become due and payable and shall be collected as
other taxes are collected by said Mayor and Council.

SEC. 4. Be it further enacted, That in all cases where the
property is to be assessed for improvements under the pro-
visions of this Act is located at the intersection of two streets
and what is known as a corner lot, the Mayor and Council
shall have the power to make an assessment for the number of
feet in the frontage of such lot, and in case the improvements
are extended along the side of the said property, they shall
also have the power to make assessment for such improvements
in addition to the assessment made for such improvements
which they shall deem proper along the street on which the
said property fronts. In all cases in which the question shall
arise as to the street upon which said property may front the
decision of the Council in regard thereto shall be final and
conclusive.

SEC. 5. Be it further enacted, That before entering upon
the construction of any work or improvement specified herein
the Mayor and Council, shall by ordinance designate the lo-
cation, extent and kind of work for improvement proposed
to be done or made, the kind of material to be used, the esti-
mated cost of the improvement, and the real property which
will be specially benefitted thereby and which it is, and shall
fix a time and place when and where the owner or owners of


 

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