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property—shall be computed for the purpose of assessment
hereunder as one-half of the total front feet on the side or
sides of the property abutting on the street or streets improved,
which assessment for sidewalks, curbs, gutters, roadbed and
street improvements, or for all or any, shall be a lien upon
such abutting property and shall be payable all cash, or, in
twenty equal installments, one installment to be paid every
six months from the date of said assessment together with inter-
est not to exceed the rate of six per centum per annum, and
the owner of the property assessed or any one on his behalf
shall at any time have the right To anticipate by payment of
part or all installments of the assessment not then due, together
with interest accrued, and any assessment or part thereof re-
maining due and unpaid for more than one year shall be en-
forced as a tax in the same manner as taxes due the town of
Brentwood are enforced under its Charter, with the provision,
however, that the Mayor and Town Council shall fix the dates
for advertising of properties for past due street improvement
assessments and the dates and places of tax sales of said prop-
erties. The Mayor and Town Council shall have the power to
make all needful regulations to carry out the objects and pur-
poses of this Act; and the Mayor and Town Council shall have
full authority to adjust assessments of taxes against particular
properties made pursuant to this Act, where it is proven to the
satisfaction of the said Mayor and Town Council that the
assessment is, or the proposed assessment would be, unjust and
inequitable, anything in this Act to the contrary notwithstand-
ing; provided, however, that before the Mayor and Town Coun-
cil shall make any adjustments of taxes hereunder, the affirma-
tive votes of all Councilmen and the Mayor shall be cast and
recorded in the minutes for such adjustments.

18-B. To effectuate the improvements named in the preced-
ing section, the Mayor and Town Council of Brentwood are
hereby authorized and empowered to borrow from time to time
on the credit of the town a sum or sums of money, not to ex-
ceed at any time six per centum of the assessed valuation of
the real property of the Town of Brentwood; to issue and re-
new or reissue certificates of indebtedness therefor, which shall
be payable within not to exceed ten years from the date of issu-
ance, with interest not to exceed the rate of six per centum per
annum, payable semi-annually, unless of shorter duration, then
at the maturity of said obligation; and the Treasurer of the
Town is charged with the custody of any moneys received from