ALBERT C. RITCHIE, GOVERNOR, 999

struct, pave or otherwise improve any street, sidewalk, alley or
public highway or parts thereof at such time and to such extent
and of such materials and in such manner as they shall by ordi-
nance provide. The total cost of the construction of gutters and
sidewalks shall be charged as a benefit against the abutting
property found to be specially benefited as hereinafter provided.
The total cost of the construction, paving or other permanent
improvement of roads or highways, shall be assessed against the
abutting property found to be specially benefited as hereinafter
provided, and provided further that such property is classified
as agricultural or as undeveloped in accordance with the pro-
visions of Section 11, of this Act, but in the event that the
abutting property found to be specially benefited is classified
as residential, whether improved or unimproved or as industrial
in accordance with the provisions of said Section 11 of this
Act, then one-half of the total costs of the construction, paving,
or other permanent improvement, of roads or highways shall
be assessed against such property so benefited and so classified
and the other half shall be paid from District-wide taxation
or the proceeds of the sale of District-wide bonds as may be
determined by said Board of County Commissioners, and the
total cost of street lighting shall be borne from the general
revenues to be collected under this Act and paid from the
Street Lighting Fund.

Before entering upon the construction of any work or im-
provement specified herein, the Board shall by ordinance
designate the location, extent and kind of work or improve-
ment 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 especially benefited thereby and which
it is proposed to assess to pay all or any part of the cost there-
of, 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 reference thereto. Notice of such hearing, embodying
the substance 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
leaving 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-