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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 counted in proportion to the number
of lots owned, of record abutting upon said street, side-
walk and/or curb, their written approval of said permanent
improvement and/or improvements. Such approval shall be
upon a street-by-street basis.

SEC. 21. 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 address, 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 imme-
diately 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
improvements, 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, instead 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.

SEC. 22. To effectuate the improvements named in the pre-
ceding sections, the Mayor and Town Council of Forest
Heights is hereby authorized and empowered to borrow from
time to time on the faith and credit of the town, a sum or
sums of money sufficient to pay the; costs thereof, which shall