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notes or certificates of indebtedness, provide for the payment
thereof and the interest thereon, and to arrange for and im-
prove or construct the roadways, alleys, curbs, sidewalks and
glitters as provided for herein. The bonds, notes or certifi-
cates of indebtedness hereunder shall be the direct obligation
of the Mayor and Town Council of North Brentwood and the
said corporation shall be responsible therefor.

818D. The Mayor and Town Council of North Brentwood
shall have power to assess against the abutting property and
collect from the owners thereof the cost of improvements to
or construction of roadways, alleys, curbs, sidewalks and gut-
ters, together with an amount sufficient to meet the interest
payments on the bonds, notes or certificates of indebtedness,
assessment being in proportion to the number of assessable
front feet owned, abutting on the streets where same are im-
proved or constructed or are about to be improved or con-
structed; provided that when property fronts or abuts on two
or more streets, where such improvements are made, or are
about to be made, the abutting front feet shall be computed
for the purpose of assessment hereunder as one-half of the
total front feet abutting on said improvements.

818E. Such assessments, when made, shall constitute a tax
or lien upon such abutting property with priority over all
liens recorded after this section becomes effective, and shall
be payable in thirty equal semi-annual installments from the
date of said assessment, 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 and with the
same interest and penalties as town taxes are collected; pro-
vided the Mayor and Town Council shall give two weeks' writ-
ten notice to the owners of all abutting property either in
person or by advertisement, published at least once in one or
more newspapers published in Prince George's County having
a circulation in North Brentwood. Such notice or advertising
shall state the date on which such assessment shall be made
and warn all abutting owners to appear at the time and place
stated in said advertisement or notices, to show cause, if any
there be, why said assessment should not be made as proposed.
Any person aggrieved by the action of the Mayor and Town
Council of North Brentwood shall have the right to appeal to
the Circuit Court for Prince George's County, provided such
appeal is taken within ten days next succeeding the day on
which said assessment is made.

818F. The Mayor and Town Council of North Brentwood
shall give prior consideration to the improvement or construc-