HERBERT R. O'CONOR, GOVERNOR. 1677

town by this Act, and heretofore dedicated or acquired by
condemnation proceedings under the provisions of any of the
laws of Maryland, or the Common Law, and in actual general
use as a road, street, avenue or alley, shall be held to be validly
constituted public highways of the town of Riverdale.

The Mayor and Common Council of Riverdale, whenever it
shall determine it to be necessary for the public benefit, that
any road, street, avenue or alley should be improved, which
is not, by the provisions of this Act, made a public highway
of the town, shall take supervision and control of the same,
and such road, avenue or alley shall thereafter become a
public highway of the town of Riverdale upon its acceptance
by the Mayor and Common Council.

865G. The Mayor and Common Council of Riverdale are
hereby authorized to construct within the annexed territory,
in such cases as they may determine to be necessary for the
public benefit and for the interest of the abutting property
owners, sidewalks, curbs, gutters and roadbed, or any or
all of them, of permanent materials in any of the streets, 1
avenues or alleys made public highways of the town by this
Act, or subsequently accepted as such by the Mayor and
Common Council, whenever petitioned therefor in writing
by the owners of more than fifty (50) percentum of the laud
abutting on the street, avenue or alley to be improved. For
this purpose the Mayor and Common Council of Riverdale
shall have all of the authority to borrow money, issue its
bonds, notes or certificates of indebtedness, advertise for bids,
execute contracts, levy special assessments against the abut-
ting property, and sell the same for non-payment of such
assessments and do all other acts and things necessary thereto
in the same manner as is now provided by law for the making,
of such improvements within the town of Riverdale, and to
this end all laws now in force or hereafter enacted applicable
to the Mayor and Common Council of Riverdale shall apply
to such improvements in said annexed territory.

865H. All the inhabitants of the territory annexed to the
town of Riverdale by this Act, shall, in all respects and to
all intents and purposes, be subject to the powers, jurisdiction
and authority vested, or to be vested in the Mayor and Com-
mon Council of Riverdale by law, and the territory so an-
nexed shall be taken and considered as a part of the municipal
corporation of the Mayor and Common Council of River-
dale.

865-1. For the purpose of determining whether the resi-
dents of the territory hereinbefore described desire the same
to be annexed to the town of Riverdale, there shall be held