612                         LAWS OF MARYLAND.                  [CH. 229

curbs, gutters and street improvements, which last 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 liqui-
date the bonds or certificates of indebtedness, and interest
thereon, issued for sidewalks, curbs, gutters, roadbeds, and
street improvements, which bonds and certificates when paid,
shall be cancelled and kept and filed among the papers of said
town; and should the treasurer of said town ever divert the
use of any of said sidewalk or street improvement fund, he
shall, upon conviction, be fined not more than $1, 000. 00 or
imprisoned for a term not exceeding two years, or be both
fined and imprisoned in the discretion of the court.

540C. That all special assessments, and interest thereon,
heretofore made or to be made by the said Mayor and Council
for the cost of roadbeds, sidewalks, curbs, gutters and street
improvements under the provisions of any law in force prior
hereto which have not become fully due and which are now
unpaid shall come within the provisions of this Act, and the
balance unpaid or whole of any such special assessment made
against any piece of real estate shall be divided by the Town
Treasurer, immediately after this Act shall become effective,
into a sufficient number of equal semi-annual installments with
interest as heretofore set out, which shall be due and payable
at semi-annual intervals from the effective date of this Act and
shall be enforceable and collectible in accordance with the pro-
visions of this Act, to the end that the balance unpaid or the
full amount unpaid shall be paid ten years after the making
of such assessment. The Mayor and Common Council are here-
by authorized and directed to issue bonds, or certificates, as here-
inbefore provided to' cover the amounts now due under such
special assessment; and the Mayor and Common Council are
hereby further authorized by ordinance to extend the benefits
of the ten-year payment plan of this Act to the record owners
of properties bought in by the Mayor and Common Council
at any tax sale upon the payment of interest and costs to date
of agreement to redeem.

554. All streets, avenues, roads and alleys in the corporate
limits of Hyattsville are hereby declared to be under the
supervision and control of the Mayor and Common Council,
but hereafter no street, avenue, road or alley shall be accepted
until the same has been graded and graveled or macadamized;
provided, that whenever the Mayor and Common Council of