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made, the abutting feet on the side shall be computed for
the purpose of assessment hereunder for only one-half of
the length of such side.

257E. Such assessments when made shall constitute a
tax or lien upon such abutting property with priority over
all liens recorded after the passage of this Act, and shall
be payable in two equal annual instalments, to pay the in-
terest on said bonds, and in thirteen annual instalments,
as nearly equal as possible, beginning two years after issu-
ance to pay the interest on and to redeem said bonds as
they become due and payable; said instalments to bear
interest at a rate not to exceed six per centum per annum,
and any assessment or part thereof remaining due and un-
paid shall be enforced and collected by the Mayor and Town
Council in the same manner as town taxes are collected;
provided the Mayor and Town Council shall give two weeks'
notice to the owners of all abutting property, by advertise-
ment, published at least once a week in one or more news-
papers published in Prince George's County, which adver-
tisement shall state the date on which such assessment shall
be made and warning all abutting owners to appear at the
time and place stated in said advertisement or notices, to
show cause, if any there be, why said assessment should
not be made as proposed. Any person aggrieved by the
action of the Mayor and Town Council of Colmar Manor
shall have the right to appeal to the Circuit Court for
Prince George's County, Maryland, provided such appeal is
taken within ten days next succeeding the day on which
said assessment is made.

257F. The Mayor and Town Council of Colmar Manor
shall give prior consideration to the construction of road-
ways, alleys, curbs, sidewalks and gutters as provided for
herein whenever the owners of fifty-one per centum (51%)
of the property, where property shall abut upon such
streets, shall petition the said Mayor and Town Council to
that effect, but the Mayor and Town Council of Colmar
Manor shall have the discretion and final determination as
to the streets to be improved, notwithstanding such peti-
tions.

SEC. 2. And be it further enacted, That the provisions
of this Act shall not become effective until the same shall
be submitted to and approved by a majority of the quali-
fied voters of Colmar Manor voting thereon. This Act