HERBERT R. O'CONOR, GOVERNOR. 783

until paid, and any assessment or part thereof remaining due
and unpaid shall, in addition to said interest, be subject to a
penalty of one-half of one per cent per month, from the date
of default, and shall be enforced and collected as town taxes
are collected by offering the property for sale for the amount
in default at the next tax sale following such default. Pro-
vided, however, the Town shall give ten days' notice by
registered mail addressed to the last known address of the
owners of record of all property proposed to be assessed, of the
intention to assess the total cost against the abutting property,
which notice shall state the date such assessment is proposed
to be made, and warning such owners to appear at the time and
place stated in said notices, to show cause, if any there be, why
said assessment should not be made as proposed.

69. The County Commissioners of Prince George's County
shall, and they are hereby directed to return and pay over an-
nually to the Treasurer of the town, three-fourth (%) of the
full amount of the road and bridge tax levied and collected each
fiscal year from property within the said town in the same
amount and manner as is now required by the law to be paid
to incorporated towns in said county, the money so returned
to be expended by the said Treasurer of the town for improv-
ing, maintaining and repairing the roads, streets and alleys
in said town.

The Town shall have power to levy, in the established month
for levy in Prince George's County of each year, beginning
with the calendar year 1944, taxes at the rate of not exceeding
Twenty-five Cents (f. 25) on each One Hundred Dollars
($100. 00) of the assessable value of real property within said
town, based on the State and County assessments for all pur-
poses; and that the Treasurer of Prince George's County shall
be and he is hereby authorized to give the Mayor and Council
or the Treasurer of said town, a copy of the tax list for said
town, annually or as often as is necessary, and all taxes so
levied shall be a lien on any and all property of the person,
firm, partnership, company, association or corporation against
whom they may be levied.

That the Mayor and Council be authorized to make emer-
gency levies of not exceeding Ten Cents ($. 10) on each One
Hundred Dollars ($100. 00) of the assessable value of real and
personal property of said town, for such special purposes as
may require such emergency tax levy, the levying of such
emergency taxes being governed by the same referendum regu-
lations as those applying to the enactment of police ordi-
nances.

That a copy of any such ordinance so levying such taxes
shall be open to public inspection.