THEODORE R. MCKELDIN, GOVERNOR 839

such street, cost for verification of title, for service or
mailing of notices to owners of abutting property as
required by law, cost of preparation of assessment col-
lection rolls to be supplied for the use of the Treasurer of
said Town, and the cost of printing bonds, provided that
before any assessment is levied hereunder, notice in writ-
ing 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 Council of Carrollton shall levy against
each parcel of land abutting roadbeds, sidewalks, alley,
curbs, gutters or street improvements, an assessment for
a share of the total cost of such improvements equal to
the proportion thereof that the number of feet in said
parcel abutting on said improvements bears to the total
assessable frontage on the part of said street so improved.
Such assessments when made, shall constitute a tax lien
upon such abutting property and shall bear interest at a
rate to be fixed by the Mayor and Council, not to exceed
six per centum per annum, and the principal of such
assessment shall be payable in twenty equal semi-annual
installments 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 Mayor and Council of Carrollton in
the same manner as now or hereafter prescribed and
required by law for the collection of taxes.

SEC. 17. And be it further enacted, That it shall be
the duty of the Mayor and Council of the City of Carroll-
ton, at least ten (10) days before each general election, to
have prepared in form appropriate and made available in
a suitable place or places for inspection by the taxpayers
of the Town, a detailed statement of the financial condition
of the Town, including receipts and expenditures of all
kinds whatsoever since the last general election.