ALBERT C. RITCHIE, GOVERNOR. 547

proceedings of the Council; should the Mayor fail to perform
the duties imposed upon him, he shall be subject to indictment
in the Circuit Court for Worcester County, and upon convic-
tion, to a fine not exceeding twenty-five dollars, to be paid
into the treasury of the town.

405A. The Mayor and Council of Snow Hill are hereby
authorized and empowered to require and enforce the grad-
ing, re-grading, improvement, maintenance and repairs of the
public streets, gutters, sidewalks, alleys and ways of the town
by the placing of pavements, curbing, shells, dirt, sidewalks
or other improvements of such material and kind as in the
discretion of the Mayor and Council may seem proper, at the
expense of the owners of the abutting property, and in case
of a failure of such owner or owners of such property to make
such improvements or repairs in the manner and of such ma-
terials as directed by the Mayor and Council within twenty
days after written notice thereof by personal service on such
owner or owners, or by mailing such notice to the last known
postoffice address of such owner or owners, then the said
Mayor and Council have the power and authority to proceed
to make such improvement or repairs and assess the costs
thereof to the owner or owners of the abutting property in
proportion to the frontage of such property, such assessment
to be collected as municipal taxes are collected by law in said
city; and the said Mayor and Council are hereby given full
power and authority to appoint, employ and compensate all
officers, agents, servants or employees that may, in the exercise
of the discretion of said Mayor and Council seem necessary
or advisable to carry into effect the provisions of this and the
preceding or any other section of the said Charter of Snow
Hill.

415. The Council shall levy at the first meeting in June
annually on the assessible property of said town, a sum suffi-
cient to meet the current expenses of that year including
also the maturing obligations, on account of water, street im-
provement or other bonds or indebtedness, and such taxes,
when levied, shall be a lien upon the property assessed and
shall be collected in the following manner, to wit: On the
first day of January next succeeding each levy, taxes shall
be deemed to be in arrears and interest shall be charged and
collected on all taxes not then paid from the first day of Janu-
ary, the elate when said taxes become due and in arrears, and