THEODORE R. MCKELDIN, GOVERNOR 1109

improvement of any such streets] such improvements, cost for
verification of titles, for service or mailing of notices to owners
of abutting property as required by law, and cost for prepa-
ration of assessment collection rolls to be supplied for the use
of the Treasurer of said City; provided, that before any assess-
ment is levied hereunder, notice in writing of the proposed
assessment 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.

[The Mayor and City Council of Hyattsville shall levy
against each parcel of land abutting roadbeds, sidewalks,
curbs, gutters or street improvements, an assessment for a
share of the total cost of such improvements equal to the pro-
portion thereof that the number of feet in said parcel abutting
on said improvements bears to the total assessable frontage on
the part of said streets so improved. ]

If the property to be assessed for improvements under this
sub-title is located at the intersection of two streets and
is what is known as a corner lot, the Mayor and City Council
of Hyattsville shall have the power to make an assessment for
the number of feet in the front of such lot, where the said im-
provements abut the front of such lot, and in case the improve-
ments 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 shall be considered the
front of such lot; except however, in cases where the two sides
are equal or where improvements similar in kind to those being
assessed have not been made along the short side of such lot,
the Mayor and City Council of Hyattsville shall determine
which is the front and which is the side of such lot, and such
determination shall be final and conclusive. In the cases of
lots abutting on more than two streets, and of lots of irregular
or unusual shape, and in cases of lots abutting on two or more
streets in one or more of which improvements similar in kind
to those being assessed have been or are about to be constructed
under such circumstances as not to subject such lots to a
special assessment by the Mayor and City Council of Hyatts-
ville, the Mayor and City Council of Hyattsville shall have full
power and authority to deny or grant side-line exemptions or
otherwise adjust assessments to be made against such lots for