WM. PRESTON LANE., JR., GOVERNOR. 1417

town; the expense of paying the salary of the Treasurer of
Morningside; the expense of hiring persons including an
attorney or attorneys to perform work or services for the
said town; to enter into contracts on behalf of said town, or
for any other lawful purpose for the government of said town,
and fix the amount of compensation to be paid thereunder;
and to expend the monies or funds of the said town for any
of the foregoing or any other lawful purpose for the benefit of
the said town, and to do all other acts and things subject only
to the limitations of this Act for the good government of
the Town of Morningside and for the benefit of the said town.

(B) Except as hereinafter provided in Sections 4 (C), (D),
(E) and (P) i. e. the acquirement of a portion of debt under
bonds or certificates of indebtedness on public improvements
made by petition, the Town of Morningside, or the Morning-
side Council, shall not have the power or authority, in any
one year, to contract debts or incur financial liabilities on
behalf of the said town in excess of the current annual reve-
nues of the said town.

(C) The Town Council is hereby empowered and authorized
to construct, or reconstruct, roadbeds, sidewalks, curbs,
gutters, and street improvements, or any and all, in the Town
of Morningside, in such cases as it may determine 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
and/or curb improvement shall be made under the provisions
of this section, the Town Council shall obtain from more than
seventy five per centum of the property owners of record
abutting upon said street, sidewalk and/or curb, their written
approval of said permanent improvement and/or improve-
ments.

(D) When the Town Council shall have determined to
make sidewalk, curb, gutter or roadbed and street improve-
ments, 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 improved, by depositing
said notice in the United States Post Office addressed to such
owner's last known address, setting forth that on a certain
day to be named therein, the Town Council will meet to de-
termine the character and kind of curb, gutter or roadbed
and street improvement, or any or all, to be laid, and notify-
ing said owner to appear at said meeting, and express his
views upon the questions, if he so desires; at said meeting the
Town Council shall hear any suggestions of said abutting
owners, and immediately thereafter they shall determine the