234 LAWS OF MARYLAND. [CH. 139

Public Local Laws of Maryland (1930 Edition), entitled
"Prince George's County", sub-title "Hyattsville", author-
izing The Mayor and Common Council of Hyattsville, a
municipal corporation to construct road-bed, sidewalk, curb,
gutter and street improvements in said town and to provide
for the liquidation of the same by special assessment on the
lands abutting said improvements.

SECTION 1. Be it enacted by the General Assembly of Mary-
land, That Chapter 469 of the Acts of the General Assembly of
Maryland 1933, codified as Section 540B of Article 17 of the
Code of the Public Local Laws of Maryland (1930 Edition),
entitled "Prince George's County", sub-title "Hyattsville", be
and the same is hereby repealed and re-enacted, with amend-
ments to read as follows:

540B. That The Mayor and Common Council of Hyattsville
shall have the power to assess against the abutting property
and collect from the owners thereof the cost of road-beds, side-
walks, curbs, gutters and street improvements, or any or all,
constructed under the provisions of this Act, including the cost
of street and public alley intersections, and all costs for the
preparation of ordinances pertaining to the improvement of
any such street, cost for verification of titles for service of
notices to owners of abutting property as required by law,
cost for preparation and sending notices to such abutting
owners, and cost of preparation of assessment collection rolls
to be supplied for the use of the Treasurer of said town; pro-
vided, that before any assessment is levied hereunder, notice
in writing of the proposed assessment shall be sent to all
owners of property, against which the assessment is proposed
to be levied, naming in said notice a time and place when and
at which said owners will be heard. Said notice may be mailed
to the last known address of the owner, or served in person
upon any adult occupying the premises, or in case of vacant or
unimproved property posted upon the premises.

In case where the construction of said improvements results
in an excessive cost on account of excessive excavation or an
excessive fill or the construction of a drain or culvert at an
expense entirely out of proportion to the improvements being
constructed, that The Mayor and Common Council of Hyatts-
ville may, in its discretion, exclude from the total cost of such
improvements to be assessed upon abutting property the cost,
or any portion thereof, of such excavation, fill, drain or cul-
vert, and to pay the amount of the costs so excluded out of
any fund properly chargeable with such an expense; and the
determination of The Mayor and Common Council of Hyatts-
ville in any such case shall be final and conclusive, provided.