ALBERT C. RITCHIE, GOVERNOR. 1299

3. The Mayor and City Council of Cumberland shall have
control and supervision over all streets, lanes, alleys and high-
ways or part thereof within the limits of the City of Cumber-
land as defined by this Act, which are now used by the general
public as streets, lanes, alleys and highways, excepting, never-
theless, that where any land has been or may hereafter be sub-
divided for building purposes and the streets, lanes, alleys or
highways, located in and through said land have not been dedi-
cated for general public use, said streets, lanes, alleys and high-
ways shall be and remain private highways so far as genera!
public traffic thereon is concerned, and the Mayor and City
Council of Cumberland shall not by condemnation or other-
wise, without the consent of the majority of the property own-
ers located along any of said streets, lanes, alleys and highways,
open said streets, lanes, alleys or highways to general public
use. There shall be erected on all such private streets, lanes,
alleys or highways, in some conspicuous place thereon a notice
which shall read "Private Highway" or words of like tenor
and effect. The Mayor and City Council of Cumberland shall
furnish to the property owners within such subdivisions the
usual public utilities and may enter upon said private streets,
lanes, alleys and highways for the purpose of maintaining elec-
tric lights, water pipes, sewers, etc., and for the purpose of
collecting garbage, enforcing its health regulations and afford-
ing general police and fire protection, but shall not have con-
trol or supervision over the grading and paving of said private
streets, lanes, alleys and highways, nor the regulation nor per-
mission for traffic thereon.

4. The Mayor and City Council of Cumberland shall ex-
tend its systems of light, water, sewer service and other public
conveniences throughout and over the streets, lanes, alleys and
highways now being or which shall be hereafter opened through-
out the lands which lie within the limits as defined by this Act
and its previous limits as the same shall be required for the
convenience of the inhabitants of said territory. The Mayor
and City Council shall assess the property contained in said
territory and collect taxes from the owners thereof, provided,
however, that all taxes for general purposes collected until
January 1, 1940, from the property lying within the districts
as hereinafter defined shall be placed in a separate fund and
expended by the Mayor and City Council upon the sewers,
lights, collection of garbage and streets of the districts from
which said taxes are obtained, but said Mayor and City Council