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LAWS OF MARYLAND.

Service of

Sec. 4oD. In all cases where service is required by the

bailiff and his
fee.

provisions of this Act upon any resident of the town of

Takoma Park, Maryland, such service shall be made by the

bailiff of said town, who may be allowed a fee of one dollar

for said service and whose return in writing reciting the fact

of such service and the time and manner thereof shall be

prima facie evidence of the fact of such service.

The cost of such service and the cost of the publication of

any notice required by this Act shall be assessed against the

owner of the property charged with such special assessment,

and become a lien upon such property and be collected with

said assessment as hereinafter provided.

Action in equi-

Sec. 4oE. In the event that provision shall be made for the

ty to recover
assessments.

payment of the assessments aforesaid in installments, upon a

failure to pay any one or more of said instalments when the

same shall become due, the whole amount thereof, and of

such assessment shall immediately become due and payable.

All assessments levied hereunder whenever the same shall

become overdue according to the terms of the ordinance

providing therefor, or by reason of the non-payment of any

installment thereof, may be collected by action in equity to

be brought in the county in which the land so assessed is

situated, or in the same manner as general taxes due said

town are now or may hereafter be collected under the pro-

visions of the charter of said town, and any sale made for the

non-payment of such assessment, and any deed made pur-

suant to such sale shall be entitled to all the presumptions

as to validity that now or may hereafter attach to sales and

deeds made for default in payment of general taxes clue

said town; and when any real property assessed as herein

provided for shall become liable to sale for any other assess-

ment of tax whatsoever, then the assessments levied under this

Act shall become immediately due and payable and the property

against which they are levied may be sold therefor, together

with accrued interests thereon and costs to day of sale if

Liabilities.

any sale made hereunder shall be set aside for failure to com-

ply with the terms hereof, that fact shall not bar the right

of said town to collect said assessment and enforce the lien

thereof by equitable suit as aforesaid.

Pertaining to

Sec. 4oF. In all cases where the property is to be assessed

corner

for improvements under the provisions of this Act is located

houses.

at the intersection of two streets and what is known as a

corner lot, the Mayor and Council have the power only to

make an assessment for the number of feet in the frontage