WM. PRESTON LANE, JR., GOVERNOR. 883

Mayor and Town Council of Cheverly shall be final and con-
clusive.

210. Such assessments when made shall constitute a tax
lien upon such abutting property and shall bear interest at a
rate not to exceed six per centum (6%) per annum, and the
principal of such assessment shall be payable in ten equal
annual installments from the date of said assessment, and at
the time of the payment of each of the said installments,
there shall be due and payable the interest on such install-
ment and on the balance of the principal then unpaid, and
any assessment or part thereof remaining due and unpaid
shall be enforced and collected by the Mayor and Town Coun-
cil in the same manner as town taxes are now enforced and
-collected, as now or hereafter prescribed and required by
law, provided however, that before any assessment is levied
hereunder, the Mayor and Town Council shall give two weeks'
notice to the owners of all abutting property, by advertise-
ment, published at least once a week in one or more news-
papers published in Prince George's County which has a
circulation in the Town of Cheverly, which advertisement
shall state the date on which such assessment shall be made
and warning all abutting owners to appear at the time and
place stated in said advertisement or notice, to show cause,
if any there be, why said assessment should not be made as
proposed. Any person aggrieved by the action of the Mayor
and Town Council of Cheverly shall have the right to appeal
to the Circuit Court for Prince George's County, Maryland,
provided such appeal is taken within ten days next succeed-
ing the day on which said assessment is made.

211. The Mayor and Town Council of Cheverly, Maryland,
shall give prior consideration to the construction of road-
ways, alleys, curbs, sidewalks and gutters as provided for
herein whenever the owners of fifty-one per centum (51%) of
the property, where property shall abut upon such streets,
shall petition the said Mayor and Town Council to that effect,
but the Mayor and Town Council of Cheverly shall have the
discretion and final determination as to the construction of
all of said work, notwithstanding such petition.

212. The Board of County Commissioners of Prince
George's County shall pay or cause to be paid annually to
the Mayor and Town Council of Cheverly three-fourths of the
full amount of the road and bridge tax levied and collected
each fiscal year from property taxed for such purposes within
the limits of the corporation of the Mayor and Town Council
of Cheverly. Any portion of said three-fourths of said road