HARRY W. NICE, GOVERNOR. 763

257C. The Mayor and Town Council of Colmar Manor
be and they are hereby authorized to do all acts not specifi-
cally mentioned herein which may be necessary to issue
and sell said bonds or certificates of indebtedness, provide
for the payment thereof, and the interest thereon, and to
arrange for and improve and construct the roadways, al-
leys, curbs, sidewalks and gutters as provided for herein.
The bonds or certificates of indebtedness hereunder shall
be the direct obligation of the Mayor and Town Council
of Colmar Manor and the said corporation shall be respon-
sible therefor. In case the assessments hereinafter pro-
vided for shall be insufficient to pay the interest on and to
redeem said bonds, then the Mayor and Town Council shall
levy and collect taxes sufficient to make said payments.

257D. The Mayor and Town Council of Colmar Manor
shall have power to assess against the abutting property
and collect from the owners thereof the cost of roadways,
alleys, curbs, sidewalks and gutters, the assessment being
in proportion to the number of assessable front feet owned,
abutting on the streets where same as improved or con-
structed or are about to be improved or constructed; pro-
vided that when corner property fronts or abuts on one
street where such improvements are made or are about to
be made, and abuts or has its side upon another street
where such improvements are made or are about
to be made, the abutting feet on the side shall be com-
puted 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 is-
suance to pay the interest on and to redeem said bonds as
they become due and payable; said instalments to bear in-
terest at a rate not to exceed six per centum per annum,
and any assessment or part thereof remaining due and
unpaid shall be enforced and collected by the Mayor and
Town Council in the same manner as town taxes are col-
lected; provided the Mayor and Town Council shall give
two weeks' notice to the owners of all abutting property,
by advertisement, published at least once a week in one or
more newspapers published in Prince George's County,
which advertisement shall state the date on which such