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the payment thereof, but whose maturity shall not extend be-
yond fifteen years from the date thereof.

SEC. 3. And be it further enacted that the said Burgess and
Commissioners of New Windsor are hereby authorized and
empowered to provide for the payment of said bonds or cer-
tificates of indebtedness, or any part thereof, in whole or in
part, by either or by both of the following methods in its dis-
cretion after the issue of any such certificates of indebtedness
or bonds, (a) to levy annually on the taxable property of said
town a special Street Tax, in addition to the other taxes now
or hereafter authorized, sufficient to provide for the payment
of the whole or any part of the principal and interest of said
bonds or certificates of indebtedness according to the tenor
thereof, when and as the same may become payable and/or
(be) to provide by ordinance for assessing the cost of any such
work, in whole or in part, upon the property binding upon
any such street or highway, or any part thereof, so
improved as hereinbefore authorized by this Act, ac-
cording to the front foot rule of apportionment and
the amount so assessed upon each piece or parcel of prop-
erty shall become a lien thereon to the amount of said as-
sessment and be collected as other municipal taxes are collected
or in such manner as it may prescribe either before or after
the work shall have been done; provided that before the passage
of any ordinance requiring the whole or any portion of such
costs to be assessed upon the property ten days' notice shall
be given in at least one of the weekly newspapers published in
Westminster, Carroll County, Maryland, and an opportunity
shall be afforded to all persons interested therein to appear and
be heard by said Burgess and Commissioners of New Windsor;
and the proceeds of such assessment shall be used for the
liquidation and discharge of such bonds or certificates of in-
debtedness authorized by the provisions of this Act.

SEC. 4. And be it further enacted, That this Act shall take
effect from the date of its passage, it being hereby declared to be
an emergency law and necessary to the immediate preservation
of the public health and safety.

Approved April 13th, 1922.

CHAPTER 149.

Vacant.