ALBERT C. RITCHIE, GOVERNOR. 1573

cost of street lighting shall be borne from the general revenues
to be collected under this Act and paid from the Street Light-
ing Fund.

Before entering upon the construction of any work or im-
provement specified herein, the Board shall by ordinance desig-
nate the location, extent and kind of work or improvement
proposed to be done or made, the kind of materials to be used,
the estimated cost of the improvement and the real property
which will be specially benefited thereby and which it is pro-
posed to assess to pay all or any part of the cost thereof, and
shall fix a time and place when and where the owner or owners
of the property to be so assessed therefor can be heard in ref-
erence thereto. Notice of such hearing, embodying the sub-
stance of such ordinance, shall be served personally upon the
owner or owners of said property who are residents of said
District either by delivering to them a copy thereof or by leav-
ing said copy at the usual place of abode of said owner with a
member of his household above the age of eighteen years, at
least ten days before said hearing. Owners of property not
residing within the limits of said District shall be served with
said notice by publishing the same three times in some news-
paper of general circulation in said District, the last publica-
tion to be not less than ten days before said hearing, and by
posting a copy of said notice in a conspicuous place upon the
property in question.

If after the hearing the Board shall be of the opinion that:
the health, morals, safety or welfare requires the work or im-
provement proposed to be done or made, they shall provide by
ordinance for the same and may charge the expense thereof
or any part of such expense against the property which they
shall find to be specially benefited thereby according to the
linear frontage of said property, and they shall also provide
in said ordinance the time and terms upon which payment
of said assessment for such work and improvement shall be
made by said property owners and the rate of interest that
shall be charged upon the deferred payments. Assessments so
levied as aforesaid shall be a lien upon the property against
which they are charged superior to all other liens from the
date of the notice of such assessment to be served upon such
lot owners personally, if said lot owner be a resident of the
District, and if said lot owner be a non-resident of said Dis-
trict, to be served by publication and posting as hereinbefore
provided.