334 LAWS OF MARYLAND. CH. 243
CHAPTER 243.
(House Bill 483)

AN ACT to amend the charter of the town of Riverdale in
Prince George's County by adding a new section 884A to
Article 17 of the Code of Public Local Laws of Maryland
(1930 Edition), title, "Prince George's County", sub-title,
"Riverdale", to provide the manner by which the Mayor
and Common Council of Riverdale shall make special as-
sessments for the cost of street improvements against cor-
ner lots, irregular shaped lots, and lots abutting laterally
on street improvements, or on two or more streets to be
improved; to provide for the payment of costs in cases of
street improvements involving unusual fills or excavations,
and to authorize the Mayor and Common Council of River-
dale, in their discretion, whenever petitioned therefor by the
owners of more than 50 per cent of the land abutting on the
street or part thereof proposed to be improved to improve
consecutive blocks of such street or such blocks of any street
as may connect with a street, or a part thereof already im-
proved, whenever in the judgment of the Mayor and Com-
mon Council of Riverdale such improvement would be in
the public interest; to provide f or the financing thereof, and
to authorize the levying of a special assessment against
the abutting land to pay the cost of such improvement.

SECTION 1. Be it enacted by the General Assembly of Mary-
land, That the charter of the Mayor and Common Council of
Riverdale be amended by adding a new section 884A to Article
17 of the Code of Public Local Laws of Maryland (1930 Edi-
tion) title, "Prince George's County", sub-title, "Riverdale",
to follow immediately after section 884 of said Article, and to
read as follows:

SEC. 884A. Whenever the Mayor and Common Council of
Riverdale shall be required to make any special assessment
against abutting land for street improvement, whether for the
construction of roadbeds, sidewalks, curbs or gutters or any
or all of them and such lot is located at the intersection of
two streets and is what is known as a corner lot, the Mayor
and Common Council of Riverdale shall have the power to
make an assessment for the number of feet in the front of
such lot, where the said improvement abuts on the front of
such lot, and in case the improvement abuts on the side of
such a lot, the assessment made for such improvement against
the lot shall be for one-half of the number of linear feet of the
side of said lot, not to exceed a total exemption of fifty linear
feet, and for the purpose of assessment the short side of such