268 LAWS OF MARYLAND. [CH. 167

town shall be charged with the safe keeping thereof, and said
funds shall be kept as a separate! account and fund, and no
part thereof shall ever be used for any other purpose than to
liquidate the certificates of indebtedness, and interest thereon,
issued for sidewalks, curbs, gutters and roadbed and street im-
provements, which certificates when paid shall be cancelled
and properly kept and filed among the papers of said town, a
record of which certificates thus cancelled shall be entered
upon a book kept for the purpose aforesaid; and the Treasurer
of said Town shall be bonded in amount equal to the amount
of money borrowed by the Town and the Clerk of said Town,
for the purposes of this Act, shall be bonded in amount left to
the discretion of the Mayor and Council.

18-C. When the Mayor and Common Council shall have
determined to make sidewalks, curbs, gutters or roadbed and
street improvements, or all or any in any street in said town,
they shall thereupon notify, as far as practicable, each property
owner upon said street proposed to be improved, by depositing
said notice in the United States Post Office addressed to such
owner's last known address, and publish notice thereof in the
next succeeding issue of one or more of the papers having gen-
eral circulation within the Town of Brentwood, setting forth
that on a certain day to be named therein, the Mayor and Town
Council will meet and notifying said owners to appear at
said meeting and express their views upon the question or show
cause, if any there be, why the said improvements should not
be made, and the decision made by the Mayor and Town
Council at this meeting shall be final and conclusive; provided,
however, that no improvement shall be made under this Act
on any street without the consent of fifty-one per centum of
the front foot abutting property owners affected on the street
which it is proposed to improve.

18-D. The Mayor and Town Council are hereby author-
ized to make such sidewalks, curbs, gutters, roadbed and street
improvements as determined by them in accordance with the
previous section, and where work is done under contract the
Mayor and Town Council shall invite proposals for said
work by advertisement for two weeks in some newspaper hav-
ing general circulation in Brentwood, at such reasonable cost
for said advertising, to be paid out of the fund provided by
this Act, as the Mayor and Town Council shall determine,
and the said Mayor and Town Council shall, in all cases,