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instalments from the date of said assessment, and at the time
of the payment of each of the said instalments there shall be
due and payable the interest on such instalment and on the
balance of the principal then unpaid, and the owner or owners
of any property assessed or any one on his or their behalf
shall at any time have the right to anticipate by payment all
instalments, with interest to date, of the assessment not then
due, and any assessment or part thereof remaining due and
unpaid shall be enforced and collected by The Mayor and
Common Council of Hyattsville in the same manner as special
assessments are now enforced and collected as now or here-
after prescribed and required by law; and the treasurer of
said town is charged with the custody of any moneys received
from the sale of said bonds, certificates of indebtedness as
above mentioned, and with the prompt collection and safe
keeping of the moneys arising from assessments upon road-
beds, sidewalks, 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 liquidate the bonds or certificates of indebtedness, and
interest thereon, issued for sidewalks, curbs, gutters, road-
beds, 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 improve-
ment fund, he shall, upon conviction, be fined not more than
one thousand dollars or imprisoned for a term not exceeding
two years or be both fined and imprisoned in the discretion of
the Court.

SEC. 2. And be it further enacted, That this Act shall take
effect June 1, 1939.

Approved May 3, 1939.

CHAPTER 140.
(Senate Bill 63)

AN ACT to add a new section to Article 19 of the Code
of Public Local Laws of Maryland (1930 Edition), title
"St. Mary's County, " sub-title "Schools, " said new sec-
tion to be known as Section 202B and to follow imme-
diately after Section 202A of said Article, authorizing
and empowering the County Commissioners of St.
Mary's County to levy and appropriate funds for the