1420 LAWS OF MARYLAND. [CH. 589

made on account of excessive excavations, or excessive fills,
for the construction of drains or culverts, in the aggregate
amount to more than ten per centum of the cost of the entire
street improvement, then the amount in excess of such ten
per centum shall be borne and paid for by the Town Council,
out of any funds properly chargeable with such excess costs,
and the ten year payment plan herein provided for shall ex-
tend and be accorded to the Town Council in such regard, in
the same manner as any other property owner paying assess-
ments hereunder. Such assessments when made shall consti-
tute a tax lien upon such abutting property and shall bear
interest at a rate not to exceed six per centum per annum,
and the principal of such assessments shall be payable in
twenty equal semi-annual instalments from the date of said
assessment, and at the time of the payment of each of the
said instalments there shall be due and payable the interest
on such instalment and on the balance of the principal then
unpaid, and the owner or owners of any property assessed or
any one on his or their behalf shall at any time have the right
to anticipate by payment all instalments, with interest to
date, of the assessment not then due, and any assessment or
part thereof remaining due and unpaid shall be enforced and
collected by the Town Council in the same manner as special
assessments are enforced and collected as now prescribed or
hereafter required by law; and the treasurer of said town is
charged with the custody of any moneys received from the
sale of said bonds, certificates of indebtedness as above men-
tioned, and with the prompt collection and safe keeping of the
moneys arising from assessments upon roadbeds, sidewalks,
curbs, gutters, and street improvements, which last said funds
shall be kept as a separate account and fund, and no part
thereof shall ever be used for any other purpose than to
liquidate the bonds or certificates of indebtedness, and inter-
est thereon, issued for sidewalks, curbs, gutters, roadbeds, and
street improvements, which bonds and certificates when paid,
shall be cancelled and kept and filed among the papers of said
town.

SEC. 5. And be it further enacted, That the County Com-
missioners of Prince George's County, the Treasurer of the
State of Maryland and all other governing bodies shall, and
they are hereby directed to return and pay over annually to
the Treasurer of the Town of Morningside, all monies to be
paid to incorporated towns within this County each fiscal
year 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 of Morningside for governing of said town and