180 LAWS OF MARYLAND. [CH. 65

Mayor and Common Council shall require, with sufficient
surety or sureties, to be approved by the Mayor and Com-
mon Council, for the faithful performance of their con-
tract. The Mayor and Common Council shall employ a
competent engineer at such compensation as may be de-
termined by them in carrying out the objects of this Act,
and where an engineer is employed his compensation is to
be considered a part of the cost of the improvements.

SEC. 4. Be it further enacted, That the Mayor and Com-
mon Council shall cause to be levied against the abutting
property owners the entire cost of said improvement, each
lot being assessed the proportionate share of the total cost
which the portion of said lot abutting on said street bears to
the entire length so to be improved provided however, that
wherever any street is to be paved abutting on which there
may be any property belonging to or dedicated to the use
of said town, any or all such paving improvements in front
of such property or dedication shall be paid for by said
town in the same ratio as herein applied to individuals on
the said street and to be paid for out of said town's funds.
Said assessment shall become due and payable sixty (60)
days after the levying thereof and shall be a lien upon such
abutting property and shall be payable all cash or in twenty
equal installments of six, twelve, eighteen, twenty-four,
thirty, thirty-six, forty-two, forty-eight, fifty-four, sixty,
sixty-six, seventy-two, seventy-eight, eighty-four, ninety,
ninety-six, one hundred and two, one hundred and eight,
one hundred and fourteen and one hundred and twenty
months respectively, from said due date with interest at
the rate of six (6) per centum per annum and the person
assessed or any one on his behalf shall at any time have
the right to anticipate by payment any or all installments
of the assessment not then due and any assessment or part
thereof remaining due or unpaid shall be enforced as a tax
in the same manner as taxes due the Town of Riverdale
are enforced.

SEC. 5. B. e it further enacted, That this Act is hereby
declared to be an emergency law and necessary for the im-
mediate preservation of the public health and safety, and
passed upon a yea and nay vote supported by three-fifths
of all the members elected to each of the two houses of
the General Assembly, the same shall take effect from the
date of its passage.

Approved April 29, 1936.