ALBERT C. RITCHIE, GOVERNOR. 87

extensions shall be made upon such terms and in such man-
ner and upon such conditions as the Board of County Com-
missioners of Montgomery County shall by resolution deter-
mine, and such extensions shall only be made upon passage
by the Board of County Commissioners of such resolution.
The payment of such special assessments may be extended
for a total period not exceeding eleven years from the dates
of their respective levies, or any anniversary of such levy
or levies, as the said Board of County Commissioners may
by resolution determine. Said resolution or resolutions
shall provide that such unpaid special assessments, or any
balance due thereon, may thereafter be paid in equal annual
instalments, not exceeding ten from the date of the original
levy thereof, or any anniversary of such. levy or levies as
said Board of County Commissioners may determine, in-
cluding all interest, penalties or costs thereon which shall
be calculated to the next anniversary of the original levy,
and divided into and included in the instalments as though
they were part of the original levy, and shall be collected as
such; and such resolution shall further provide that such
extensions shall apply to all overdue instalments or bal-
ances on such special assessments, whether the same shall
have been advertised and sold, or in default and not adver-
tised and sold, and shall extend to and apply to all prop-
erties heretofore purchased at tax sale by the County Com-
missioners, but shall not affect or apply to any amount due
under any tax sale or deed to a purchaser other than said
County Commissioners; such resolution shall direct the
County Treasurer or other tax collecting authorities to
calculate and enter such special assessments so extended,
upon his books, and proceed thereafter to the collection
of such assessments, in said instalments, as the original
levy or any instalment thereof was collected, with the in-
terest, penalties and costs provided by law or resolution
for such instalments. All acts, advertisements or sales of
such Treasurer shall thereafter have the same force and
effect as if such collections were being made under all laws
or resolutions or any amendments of either applying to the
original levy. All such special assessments in default, in-
cluding such assessments withheld from advertising and
sale by the County Commissioners, are hereby ratified and
confirmed and declared to be levied upon the property
against which they are levied, and collectible according to
law.

The County Commissioners of Montgomery County are
hereby authorized and empowered to renew, reissue or
extend any bonds, notes, certificates of indebtedness or