ALBERT C. RITCHIE, GOVERNOR.                1223

CHAPTER 492.

AN ACT to authorize and empower the County Commissioners
of Montgomery County to extend and improve Connecticut
Avenue north from Kensignton to the Brookeville Pike; to
assess the total cost of such construction as benefits against the
abutting and adjacent property; and to provide for the issu-
ance of certificates of indebtedness in connection therewith.

SECTION 1. Be it enacted by the General Assembly of Mary-
land, That the county be and they are hereby authorized and
empowered to acquire a right of way one hundred and twenty feet
in width and construct thereon a concrete highway not less than
twenty feet in width to be built in accordance with the specifi-
cations of the State Roads Commission beginning at the inter-
section of the Bladensburg Road and Concord Street and tra-
versing the bed of Concord Street (30 feet in width) through
Waugh's Subdivision and the subdivision of North Kensington,
a distance of approximately 1,994 feet to the Charles W. Hurdle
5.4 acre parcel; continuing across the Hurdle parcel approxi-
mately 335 feet; across the 184.5 acre Perry Farm approxi-
mately 3,055 feet; and then across the intervening lands a dis-
tance of approximately 3,453 feet to the Viers Mill Road;
continuing northward through the Ford tract about 5,410 feet;
through the Weller Tract about 4,797 feet; across the Bouic
89.5 acre tract approximately 800 feet; across the Hardy 80.5 acre
tract approximately 1,459 feet; across the Aspen Hill Kennel's
property approximately 465 feet to center of road leading from
Brookeville Road at Aspen Hill or Dwyer School to old Viers
Mill; and then across the Gill Tract about 395 feet to join the
existing paving at the angle in the Brookeville Road north of
aforesaid Aspen Hill Road, or by some other practicable route
between Kensington and Georgia Avenue extended at, about or
a reasonable distance north of the Aspen Road intersection with
Georgia Avenue extended, such route to be selected by the
County Commissioners.

SEC. 2. And be it further enacted, That the total cost of the
construction hereby authorized shall be charged as a benefit
against the abutting and/or adjacent property which is hereby
declared to be specially benefited to the extent of such cost as
follows: One-half of said cost shall be charged against the abut-
ting property on both sides of the right of way improved as
herein described within 800 feet thereof; three-tenths of said
cost shall be charged against the next adjacent property on both
sides of said right of way more than 800 feet and within 1,600
feet of said right of way; and the remaining one-fifth of the