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the same to be necessary for the public benefit and for the
benefit of the abutting land and of the owners of the said
abutting land, provided that before any permanent street,
sidewalk andor curb improvement shall be made under the
provisions of this section, the Mayor and Town Council shall
obtain from more than fifty per centum of the property owners
of record abutting upon said street, sidewalk andor curb,
their written approval of said permanent improvement andor
improvements.

Section 22. When the Mayor and Town Council shall have
determined to make sidewalk, curb, gutter or roadbed and
street improvements, or any or all of them, in any street in
said town, they shall thereupon notify, as far as practicable,
each property owner upon said street proposed to be im-
proved, by depositing said notice in the United States Post
Office addressed to such owner's last known addres^, setting
forth that on a certain day to be named therein, the Mayor
and Town Council will meet to determine the character and
kind of curb, gutter or roadbed and street improvement, or
any or all, to be laid, and notifying said owner to appear at
said meeting, and express his views upon the questions, if he
so desires; at said meeting the Mayor and Town Council shall
hear any suggestions of said abutting owners, and immediately
thereafter they shall determine the character and kind of
work to be done, which said determination shall be final and
conclusive as to the kind and character of the street improve-
ments, unless a majority of the owners abutting the proposed
improvements and chargeable with the cost thereof shall, in
one week from said meeting, file with the Mayor and Town
Council a petition in writing signed by said majority of owners
asking for a different kind of sidewalk, curb, gutter and street
improvements, or any of them, in which event the Mayor and
Town Council shall forthwith adopt the sidewalk, curb, gutter
or street improvement, or all, in said petition requested, in-
stead of the one theretofore selected by them, and thereafter,
as soon as practicable, begin, and with all possible expedition
complete, said proposed improvements. If a majority of the
owners abutting the proposed improvements, and chargeable
with the cost thereof, shall within the time above specified,
file with the Mayor and Town Council a petition in writing,
signed by said majority of owners, asking that the proposed
'improvements be made by contract, said improvements shall
be made by contract.

Section 23. To effectuate the improvements named in the
preceding sections, the Mayor and Town Council of Landover
Hills are hereby authorized and empowered to borrow from
time to time on the faith and credit of the town, a sum suffi-