38                           LAWS OF MARYLAND.                   [CH. 21

the sale of said certificates of indebtedness as above mentioned.
The Clerk of said town shall be charged with the prompt collec-
tion of the moneys arising from assessments for side-walks,
curbs, gutters and street improvements, said funds to be turned
over to the Treasurer of said Town by the Clerk and the Treas-
urer of said town shall be charged with the safe keeping there-
of, and said funds shall be kept as a separate account and fund,
and no part thereof shall ever be used for any other purpose
than to liquidate the certificates of indebtedness, and interest
thereon, issued for the cost and necessary expenses in the con-
struction of sidewalks, curbs; gutters and roadbed and street
improvements; including the necessary expenses incident to
carrying into effect the provisions of this act; which certificates
when paid shall be cancelled and properly kept and filed among
the papers of said town, a record of which certificates thus
cancelled shall be entered upon a book kept for the purpose
aforesaid; and the Treasurer of said Town and the Clerk of
said Town, for the purposes of this Act, shall be bonded in
amount left to the discretion of the Mayor and Town Council,
but in no case in amount of less than two thousand dollars.

18-C. When the Mayor and Town Council shall have de-
termined to construct sidewalks, curbs, gutters or roadbed and
street improvements, or all or any, in any street or streets in
said town, they shall thereupon notify, as far as practicable,
each property owner upon said street or streets, proposed to be
improved, by depositing said notice in the United States Post
Office addressed to such owner's last known address, and pub-
lish notice thereof in one or more of the papers having general
circulation within the Town of Brentwood, setting forth that on
a certain day to be named therein, the Mayor and Town Coun-
cil will meet and notifying said owners to appear at said meet-
ing and express their views upon the question or show cause, if
any there be, why the said improvements should not be made,
and the decision made by the Mayor and Town Council at this
meeting shall be final and conclusive; provided, however, that
no improvement shall be made under this Act on any street
where fifty-one per centum of the abutting property owners
affected on the street which it is proposed to improve register
written objection to such proposed improvement with the
Mayor and Town Council at the aforesaid specified hearing or
on or before the date of said hearing.

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SEC. 2. And be it further enacted, That this Act is hereby
declared to be an emergency law and necessary for the imme-