1828 LAWS OF MARYLAND. [CH. 761

interest, penalties, and costs on said real estate, due and pay-
able to the said Commissioners of Bladensburg.

Taxes on personal property shall be collected in the same
manner as is now provided by law for the collection of such
taxes due Prince George's County.

Whenever any real estate shall have been bought in, as
herein provided, by the Commissioners of Bladensburg, at any
tax sale made under the provisions and the same shall not have
been redeemed within the time provided for the redemption
thereof, and not set aside by the Court, the said Commissioners
may sell said property for not less than all of the accumulated
taxes, interest, penalties and costs, and may convey the same to
the purchaser upon the payment of the purchase price.

60. The Commissioner shall cause to be constructed in
such cases as they may determine to be necessary for the
public benefit, with the written consent or upon the petition
of the owners of 51 per cent of the front footage abutting
upon said proposed improvements, sidewalks, curbs, gutters
and street improvements, in any of the streets of said Town,
the material to be determined by a vote of a majority of the
owners of the front footage, consenting or petitioning, and
shall assess the costs thereof upon the land abutting said im-
provements, but no corner lot improved on two sides shall be
assessed for more than one-half of the total number of feet
abutting upon said improvements. Any proposed improve-
ments under this section, the estimated cost of which shall
exceed Five Hundred Dollars ($500. 00), shall be done by
contract, which contract shall be let by the said Commissioners
to the lowest bidder by sealed bids opened at a public meeting
designated by said Commissioners for that purpose. The
commissioners shall hold a public hearing to determine the
necessity for said improvements and the materials with which
said improvement are to be made, and shall hold another
public hearing after said improvements are made, at which
they shall submit the costs, which shall include the cost of
financing and collecting and the cost of any public intersec-
tions, at such meeting and after a hearing shall determine the
amount per front foot to be so assessed. Said assessments
shall be a lien upon said abutting property and shall be pay-
able in all cash or in twenty equal instalments, semi-annually,
over a period of ten years from the date of said assessment,
with interest on deferred instalments not exceeding six per
cent per annum. Such assessment if in default shall be col-
lected as town taxes are collected and the property subject to
such assessment shall be sold as if such assessment was a Town
tax.