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and the Treasurer of said Town shall be charged with the
safekeeping thereof, and said funds shall be kept as a sep-
arate account and fund in such bank or banks as Mayor
and Common Council may designate, and no part thereof
shall ever be used for any other purpose than to liquidate
the certificates of indebtedness, and interest thereon, is-
sued for the cost and necessary expenses in the construc-
tion of sidewalks, curbs, gutters and roadbed and street
improvements; including the necessary expenses incident
thereto, which certificates when paid shall be cancelled and
properly kept and filed among the papers of said town, a
record of which certificates thus cancelled shall be entered
upon a book kept for the purpose aforesaid; and the Treas-
urer of said Town and the Clerk of said Town, for the pur-
poses of this Act, shall be bonded in amount left to the dis-
cretion of the Mayor and Common Council, but in no case
in amount of less than two thousand dollars.

SEC. 24. When the Mayor and Common Council shall
have determined to construct sidewalks, curbs, gutters or
roadbed and street improvements, or all or any, in any
street or streets in said town, they shall thereupon notify,
as far as practicable, each property owner upon each street,
proposed to be improved, by depositing in the United States
Post Office, postage prepaid, in a sealed envelope addressed
to such owner's last known address, a notice, and by pub-
lishing said notice in one or more of the newspapers having
general circulation in the town of University Park, setting
forth therein the kind of sidewalk, curb, gutter, roadbed
and street improvements, or all or any of them, in any
street in said town the Mayor and Common Council have
determined to improve; the place, date and time it will
meet to hear such owners, which shall be not less than ten
days from the mailing of such notices, and notifying said
owners to appear at said meeting and express their views
upon the question or show cause, if any there be, why the
improvements should not be made; and the decision made
by the Mayor and Common Council at said meeting shall
be final and conclusive; provided, however, that no street
improvement to be paid for by special assessments shall be
made under this Act unless and until the previous consent
in writing of the owners of fifty-one per centum (51%)
of the abutting lots on each street so proposed to be im-
proved shall be filed with the Clerk of the Mayor and Com-
mon Council.