190 LAWS OF MARYLAND. [CH. 50

town, " is hereby repealed and re-enacted with amendments
to read as follows:

5. The Mayor and Common Council shall cause to be
levied against the abutting property owners the entire cost
of said improvement, each lot being assessed the propor-
tionate 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 days after the levying
thereof and shall be a lien upon such abutting property
and shall be payable all cash or in twenty equal install-
ments 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 hun-
dred and two, one hundred and eight, one hundred and
fourteen and one hundred and twenty months respectively,
from said due date with interest at a rate to be fixed by the
Mayor and Common Council, not to exceed six per cent per
annum and the persons assessed or any one on his behalf
shall at any time have the right to anticipate by payment
of any or all installments of the assessments not then due
and any assessment or part thereof remaining due or un-
paid be enforced as a tax in the same manner as taxes due
the town of Riverdale are enforced.

SECTION 2. Be it further enacted, That this Act is an
emergency law and necessary for the immediate preserva-
tion of the public health and safety, and having been passed
by a yea and nay vote 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 December 15, 1933.

CHAPTER 51.

AN ACT to add one new section to Article 1 of the Code
of Public Local Laws of Maryland (1930 Edition), title
"Allegany County", sub-title "Old Age Pensions", to be