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any or all of them, to improve consecutive blocks of such
street or such blocks of any street covered by the petition as
are consecutive or may connect with a street or a part of a
street already improved whenever in the judgment of the
Mayor and Common Council of Riverdale the making of such
improvement would be in the public interest and the Mayor
and Common Council of Riverdale are hereby authorized to
borrow money on the faith and credit of the Mayor and Com-
mon Council of Riverdale and to issue therefor promissory
notes, bonds, or other evidences of indebtedness as in the case
of other street improvements which the town is authorized by
law to make and to levy a special assessment against the land
abutting on such improvement in accordance with the law
applicable to the making of assessments for similar street im-
provements within the town and all provisions of law govern-
ing the giving of notice, hearing, assessment, lien, time for
payment, payment and collection of delinquent assessments,
interest, penalty and costs, including sale for non-payment,
applicable to the making of street improvements in the town
shall apply to the making of improvements hereunder.

SEC. 2. And Z>e it further enacted, That this Act shall take
effect June 1, 1941.

Approved April 28, 1941.

CHAPTER 244.

(House Bill 472)

AN ACT to authorize and empower the Mayor and City
Council of the City of Frostburg, Allegany County, Mary-
land, to issue and sell or exchange Refunding Bonds of said
city to an amount not exceeding Eighty Thousand Dollars
($80, 000) for the purpose of refunding certain outstanding
bonds of said city, and to levy and collect taxes upon all
the assessable property in said city sufficient to pay the
principal of and interest on said Refunding Bonds as the
. same respectively become due.

WHEREAS, the City of Frostburg, Allegany County, Mary-
land, did heretofore, under date of October 1, 1936, issue its
three and one-half per cent (3%%) Frostburg Improvement
and Refunding Floating Debt and Sewer Bonds of 1936, which
said bonds to the amount of f 80, 000 are now outstanding and
mature serially on October 1 of each of the years 1946 to 1960,