HERBERT R. O'CONOR, GOVERNOR. 423

1931, to follow immediately after Section 15, to be known as
Section 16, and to read as follows:

16. The Mayor and Common Council of Seat Pleasant
are hereby empowered to levy a special assessment according
to the front foot rule of apportionment of the cost for public
improvements, for the construction of streets, sidewalks,
gutters and curbs which have been constructed or may here-
after be constructed in the Town of Seat Pleasant, and that
the levy of said special assessment shall be made against the
properties that have been improved or benefited by said public
improvements, and each assessments shall thereupon become
a lien upon such abutting property for the amount of improve-
ments or benefits assessed against said property. The Mayor
and Common Council of Seat Pleasant shall give at least 10
days' notice of each assessment and shall give to any
qualified owner of real property who is assessed as owner
of any interest, jointly or severally, in real property in
Prince George's County, Maryland, the opportunity to be
heard thereon, who shall have a right of appeal therefrom
within 20 days to the Circuit Court of Prince George's County,
on all matters pertaining to such assessments. Such assess-
ments shall be due and payable in 20 semi-annual installments,
as nearly equal as possible, the first installment thereof to be-
come due and payable within 60 days next succeeding the date
of notice of such special assessment. Said special assessment
shall be collected in the same manner provided by law for the
collection of taxes in said county, and shall be subject to in-
terest within 90 days of levying such assessment, said interest
not to exceed 6 per centum per annum. Any person shall have
the right to pay the whole of said assessment at any time, and
any person shall have the right to anticipate the payment of
any installment not then due, and any assessment or part
thereof remaining due and unpaid shall be collected in the
same manner provided by law for the collection of delinquent
taxes.

All money received on account of said special assessment
shall be treated as a special fund and shall be kept in a sepa-
rate account and fund and shall not be expended for any pur-
pose other than the liquidation and redemption of bonds; that
after the payment of any bonded indebtedness, the surplus, if
any, in such special fund or account shall be transferred to the
general fund of the Mayor and Common Council of Seat
Pleasant.

The Mayor and Common Council of Seat Pleasant shall be-
come charged with the duty to build, construct, rebuild, or re-
construct such streets, roads, lanes, sidewalks, curbs and
gutters within the corporate limits of the Town of Seat