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one installment to be paid every six months from the date of assessment,
together with interest, and the installments shall be collectable as town
taxes are collected, including penalties for late payment.

The assessment shall be made by an ordinance enacted at a public
meeting, after the property owners proposed to be assessed have been
notified by mailing a notice to the addresses listed on the assessment
records of the proposed assessment and the date of hearing.

Property owners so assessed shall have the right to appeal to the
Circuit Court for Prince George's County, Maryland, within thirty (30)
days after the date on which the assessment is made. The owner of any
property assessed or anyone in his behalf may anticipate the payment of
an installment or the balance of the assessment which may remain by
paying the same with interest accrued to date of payment.

Property subject to any assessment installment or part thereof re-
maining due and unpaid for more than five (5) months after its due date
shall be sold in the same manner as is delinquent tax property as provided
for by the Laws of the State of Maryland and Prince George's County,
Maryland.

Section 2. BE IT FURTHER RESOLVED AND ORDAINED by the
Mayor and Council, that a fair summary of this Resolution and the Charter
Amendment hereby proposed be published not fewer than four (4) times
at weekly intervals in a newspaper of general circulation within the Town
of Bladensburg; that a complete and exact copy of the proposed charter
amendment shall be posted in the Town Municipal Building, 4229-Edmons-
ton Avenue, for a period of not less than forty (40) days from date of
adoption of this resolution, and that a public hearing will be held on this
resolution and the charter amendment on DECEMBER 2, 1968, 8:00 P.M.,
at the Town Municipal Bldg., 4229-Edmonston Avenue, Bladensburg, Md.,
the charter amendment proposed by this resolution shall become a part
of the Town Charter according to the terms as herein provided, and in all
respects shall be observed and effective on FEBRUARY 3rd, 1969, which
is more than the fifty (50) days requirement, after the adoption of this
resolution.

Unless on or before the fortieth (40th) day after the adoption and
enactment there shall be submitted to the Mayor and Council a petition
signed by twenty (20) percent or more persons who are qualified registered
voters in the town requesting that the proposed amendment be submitted
to referendum to the voters of the town, all as provided for by Section 13,
Article 23A of the Annotated Code of Maryland, and if the petition
submitted complies with all the requirements hereof, the Mayor and
Council shall by resolution specify the date, time and place for the referen-
dum concerning the question on the Charter Amendment.

The referendum will be held within a period of not less than forty
(40) days nor more than sixty (60) days after the passage of the resolution
providing for the referendum. Should a petition for referendum not be
received by the Mayor and Council within the forty (40) days, the
proposed Charter Amendment shall in all respects become effective and be
observed as such upon the third (3rd) day of February, 1969.

Read and adopted for the 1st reading 12/2/68 at the public
meeting.

To be published four (4) times, P.G. Post newspaper, Dec. 5/12/
19/26, issues.