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cient to pay the costs thereof, and to issue bonds or certificates
of indebtedness therefor, which shall be payable within ten
years from date of issuance in twenty equal semi-annual in-
stalments with interest not to exceed the rate of six per
centum per annum, payable quarterly.

Section 24. The Mayor and Town Council shall have the
power to assess against the abutting property and collect from
the owners thereof, whether they be leasehold owners or owners
in fee simple, the cost of roadbeds, sidewalks, curbs, gutters
and street improvements, or any or all, constructed under the
provisions hereof, including the cost of street and public alley
intersections, and all costs for the preparation of ordinances
pertaining to the improvement of any such street, cost for
verification of titles, for service of notice to owners of abutting
property as required by law, cost for preparation and sending
notices to such abutting owners, and cost of preparation of
assessment collection rolls to be supplied for the use of the
Treasurer of said town; provided that before any assessment
is levied hereunder, notice in writing of the proposed assess-
ment shall be sent to all owners of property, against which the
assessment is proposed to be levied, naming in said notice a
time and place when and at which said owners will be heard.
Said notice may be mailed to the last known address of the
owner, or served in person upon any adult occupying the
premises, or in case of vacant or unimproved property, posted
upon the premises.

In case where the construction of said improvements results
in an excessive cost on account of excessive excavation or an
excessive fill or the construction of a drain or culvert at an
expense entirely out of proportion to the improvements being
constructed, that the Mayor and Town Council of Landover
Hills may, in its discretion, exclude from the total cost of such
improvements to be assessed upon abutting property the cost,
or any portion thereof, of such excavation, fill, drain or cul-
vert, and to pay the amount of the costs so excluded out of any
fund properly chargeable with such an expense; and the de-
termination of the Mayor and Town Council in any such case
shall be final and conclusive, provided, however, that where
the property to be assessed for improvements under this Act is
located at the intersection of two streets and is what is known
as a corner lot, the Mayor and Town Council shall have the
power to make an assessment for the number of feet in the
front of such lot, where the said improvements abut the front
of such lot, and in case the improvements abut the side of such
a lot, the assessment made for such improvements 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 lot