726 LAWS OF MARYLAND. [CH. 423

such manner and with such material and surfacing as they
may consider best, any of the streets and thoroughfares of
the town and by general ordinance require the owners of the
lots of ground fronting on the street or thorough fare so
graded or made as aforesaid, to pay two-thirds (2-3) of the ex-
pense incurred in grading and making such streets or thorough-
fares in proportion to the front feet of said lots of such owners
respectively on said streets or thoroughfares and to be payable
when such work is finished, and such proportion of such ex-
pense as should be borne by each respective owner according
to his frontage as aforesaid shall be and remain a lien on the
such respective lots until paid ; and whenever payment thereof
is refused, the Mayor and Council may recover the same In-
action at law or by proceedings to enforce said lien by sale in
a manner to be prescribed by said ordinance, and the remain-
ing one-third (1-3) of said expense shall be paid by the Mayor
and Council out of the taxes levied by them upon the prop-
erty generally within said corporation.

SEC. 54-D. The Mayor and Council may levy annually a
tax on the property in said corporation assessed as aforesaid,
not exceeding fifty cents (50c) on every one hundred dollars
($100.00) to the assessed value thereof, which tax shall be a
lien on said property, real, personal and mixed, of the tax-
payers of said town, respectively, till paid, and interest shall
be chargeable on sai'd taxes after thirty days from the time
when the same are due and payable; and said taxes shall be
due and payable thirty days from the date of levying the
same ; the said Mayor and Council may also, in their discretion,
allow a discount not exceeding five per centum (5%) for
prompt payment of said taxes.

SEC. 3. And be it further enacted, That the two additional
sections, to be known as 54-J and 54-K, be added to Article
7 of the Code of Public Local Laws of Maryland, title "Car-
roll County," sub-title "Hampstead," as follows:

SEC. 54-J. They shall have the power to provide by general
ordinance for the grading, making or curbing, or for the re-
grading, re-making or re-curbing of any street, in the said
town of Hampstead, without the passage of a special ordinance
in the particular case, whenever the owners of a majority of
the front feet of property binding on such street shall apply
for the same upon terms and under conditions to be pre-
scribed in the same general ordinance, and for assessment and