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of said street, and shall assess, at any time as the said Mayor
and Common Council shall deem proper and after ten days'
notice to the owners, upon the land abutting said improvements
the cost thereof, street and public alley intersections to be as-
sessed against the property owners half way down each
square, provided, however, that when property fronts or
abuts on two or more streets;, where such improvements
are made, or are about to be made, the abutting front
feet along the side of said property shall be computed
for the purpose of assessment hereunder as one-half of the
total front feet on the side of the property abutting on the street
to be improved, which assessments for sidewalks, curbs, gutters
or roadbed and street improvements, or for all or any, shall be a
lien upon such abutting property and shall be payable all cash,
or in eight equal instalments of six, twelve', eighteen, twenty-
four, thirty, thirty-six, forty-two and forty-eight months, re-
spectively, from the date of said assessment, with interest at
the rate of six per centum per annum, and the person assessed
o<r any one on his behalf shall at any time have the right to
anticipate by payment of all instalments of the assessment not
then due, and any assessment or part thereof remaining due and
unpaid shall be enforced as a tax in the same manner as taxes
due the town of Brentwood are enforced under the authority of
this Act. The Mayor and Town Council shall have power to
make all necessary regulations as to the notice of assessments
to property owners made under this section.

18-B. To effectuate the improvements named in the pre-
ceding section, the Mayor and Town Council of Brentwood
are hereby authorized and empowered to borrow from time to
time on the credit of the town a sum or sums of money, not
to exceed at any time four per centum of the assessed valuation
of the real property of the Town of Brentwood; to issue cer-
tificates of indebtedness therefor, which shall be payable with-
in five years from the date of issuance, with interest not to
exceed the rate of six per centum per annum, payable annu-
ally, unless of shorter duration, then at the maturity of said
obligation; and the Treasurer of the town is charged with the
custody of any moneys received from the issues of sale of said
certificates of indebtedness as above mentioned. The Clerk
of said town shall be charged with the prompt collection of the
moneys arising from assessment for sidewalks, curbs, gutters
and street improvements, said funds to be turned over to the
Treasurer of said town by the Clerk, and the Treasurer of said